Open Systems and Kalibur Solutions has released Traverse version 11 Canadian payroll, designed to enable companies with Canadian employees to prepare payroll in-house. Kalibur CEO Zoltan Szakal says with the new module companies can run Canadian and U.S. payroll from one Traverse installation. Payroll does, well, the usual stuff, with Canadian payroll functions integrated with Traverse and capable of handling multicurrency transactions. It feels like Minneapolis, Minn.-based Open Systems is on a pace to issue more press releases in 2013 than in any year I can remember in the past two decades. This month, the company also announced a partnership with Argus Hosting, which provides online hosting and cloud services for ERP users. The deal provides services such as Hosted Virtual Desktops, automatic offsite data backup, and applied software updates for Traverse installations. Last week, Open Systems and Unisun Software they integrate Unisun's Envio produce inventory management software with Traverse. Envio's software is a packer-grower-shipper inventory management software package for the fresh produce industry. (That leads me to wonder who serves the stale produce industry?)