Australia-based Reckon, one of the online accounting pack, saw a 3-percent decrease in net earnings for the year ended December 31 on a 3-percent rise in revenue. On the glass half-full side, non-IFRS basis earnings were up 5 percent. Either way you look at it, the bottom line was about $20 million as the difference between non-IFRS and IFRS was in the 2013 results.

Tour de Force, which markets a variety of non-financial software products, has launched a channel program. The effort is being managed by channel sales director Ken Ledyard, a veteran of Sage and Dynamics reseller Socius. Tour de Force sells CRM and business intelligence software. Ledyard, who was hired in January, says the company has integration with more than 40 ERP products.

Jeeves Information Systems is abandoning its channel in Sweden. The company announced this week it will not renew any agreements with companies that sell, service and support its ERP product in Sweden. That came after its annual channel partner analysis. I might be reading too much into this, but I'm not surprised. The parent company's CEO is Austin, Texas-based Jeff Tognoni, who took his position after Battery Ventures acquired Jeeves

Unit4, which has previously been sold only direct in North America, is considering a partner program on this continent. "We are looking at building a partner program for the North American market," Unit4 marketing communications manager Maggie Kerr-Southin said this week. Her comment came in response to a question about a corporate statement last month attached to a brief description of results for 2014.