Epicor Software has hired Colleen Langevin as chief marketing officer. She replaces former CMO Celie Fleischaker, who had a 20-year career with Epicor, left the company in November, shortly after the arrival of new CEO Steve Murphy.

A report this week says that scientists have been able to reverse Alzheimer's Disease in mice. Great, just what we need a way to improve the memories of mice. "Oh yeah, now I remember; don't go for the cheese if it's lying on a piece of wood."

Now known as Oracle NetSuite, the cloud software organization had been a fast-growing business when it was independent. But according to EVP Jim McGeever since it was acquired by Oracle in November 2016, its growth is now even faster.

Australia-based Reckon, which markets low-cost cloud accounting software, reported results for 2017 that were dramatically changed by divesting much of its business. Reckon had a profit of about $6.1 million for the year ended December 31, up 30 percent from the past year.