Satya Nadella, who was originally part of Microsoft Business Solutions, has been named as president of Microsoft’s server and tool business, a $15 billion operation. Nadella was originally slated to succeed Doug Burgum before he moved elsewhere in 2007. I said at the time it was Microsoft saying Nadella had too much talent to be left with something as small a part of the business as MBS. Read more...

License fees barely budged, but subscription revenue once again pushed Blackbaud’s revenue higher as the company closed its fourth quarter on December 31. Net income for the nonprofit software vendor rose to $8.5 million, an increase of 7.3 percent from just under $8 million in last year’s corresponding quarter. Read more...

SAP has introduced Business By Design feature pack 2.6 which the company said serves as an open platform on which “a broad ecosystem of partners can further customize the software”.  The company said 2.6 also serves as a platform on which SAP will develop new on-demand offerings “for various lines of business.” That latter might better be phrases as industry segments or verticals, I suppose.

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RSM McGladrey has named Bob Bell as director of its Dynamics AX practice, a new position for the firm. Bell, who will be based in Moorestown, N.J., will serve as a national resource for McGladrey Technology Services. Bell, who spent 1983-1993 at BearingPoint, also worked at VisAlign for just over five years. VisAlign was a Dynamics AX reseller that was acquired by CDC Software late in 2007, (I probably should have said Dynamics AX Head, AX Head? Well…) Read more...