Acumatica has named Kathy Visser-May as chief marketing officer; and Nigel LeGresley as chief operating officer. Stijn Hendrikse was the cloud software company's first CMO and served from March 2012 until he left for a sister company in May 2014. A Microsoft veteran, like many Acumatica leaders, Visser-May was senior director for the IT Pro Audience and Platform Evangelism Team from July 2012.

Sage CEO Steve Kelly has been keeping up a blog on his company's site. And that's something that is hard for executives to do with regularity. But it's not available on the North American site. In April, Sage named Antoine Henry as global VP of product marketing, announcing it only in French. Sage talks of ending its country-by-country operation. PR has not been touched. And there often does not seem to be an effort to create publicity for the company and its products. Asked about the X3 sales conference recently in Istanbul, a Turkey,a PR person replied there was no news. There's no "but we can arrange an interview, now, at Summit," about those topics.

There's a scientific study that is trying to decide if people transmit happiness by smell. I don't know about happiness, but I've frequently been able to transmit disgust that way. ... I was walking around taking photos when a guy asked, "Can you use all that equipment?" "No," I replied. "But I know how to use a credit card real well." ... Here at Harvard for my wife's class reunion.

Gravity 2015 has been introduced by Gravity Software. Debuting, this month, the cloud-based application is built on Dynamics CRM Online and is aimed at providing integrated financials and CRM capabilities on that platform. Gravity was founded by president, John Silvani, who operated the former First Tech Direct Microsoft software reseller. The Financials element offers a flexible chart of accountants, budgeting and analysis and an advanced reporter writer. The company is offering a free 30-day trial.