Syspro has hired Pierre Renard as CEO of Syspro Asia. It is the latest in what appears to be a significant amount of new blood to come into the South Africa-based new blood. 

Jeroen van Der Heijden has been named as chief technology officer at Exact. It is a return to the Netherlands-based software company as Van der Heijden worked there from 1991 through 2005.

KeyedIn has introduced the latest release its manufacturing application. Meanwhile, the software company also reported this week it is migrating its platform to Microsoft Azure.