ECi Software Solutions, soon to be parent to JobBoss, Macola, and Max, has hired Glenn Kimball as chief information officer. ECI, based in Fort Worth, Texas, will soon take over the three manufacturing packages.

HighJump Software has been acquired by Körber AG, based in Hamburg, Germany. That means HighJump, heavily involved in EDI products, has been absorbed by a company that had $2.65 billion in revenue, so safe to say, terms were not disclosed. Doesn't anyone go public anymore?

Avalara has hired Greg Stivers as SVP of sales. Stivers joins the sales tax software from Concur, where he was SVP of client development starting in July 2014 until taking the Avalara job this month. The position is a new one for the software company.