Faye Business Systems Group has merged in Chicago, Ill.-based Intelestream. Both are SugarCRM resellers. Faye, the 2018 SugarCRM Global Reseller of the Year, claims to be one of the largest dealers for the open source CRM product.

SIS, a Dynamics reseller, has hired David Bishop as chief technology officer. It is the first time the Duluth, Ga.-based firm has had a CTO.

Xero ended its half on September 30 with 2 million subscribers. The New Zealand-based cloud company said during its release of results for the six months that the number represented a 30-percent increase over its subscriber base at the end of the first half of fiscal 2019.

^{For many years, the product focus for Oracle NetSuite has often been about moving up-market. But that is changing with the organization formulating a plan to expand more aggressively down-market, according to Craig West, VP of channel sales.}