Avalara has hired Tony Susak as general manager for its communications business. He was director of tax for AT&T from January 2015 until taking the position. Before that he was tax director at Cricket Communications starting in December 2012 and was senor tax manager at OnStar from April 2006 through October 2012. Avalara's Communications business provides applications and services to small and large telecommunications companies.

Nonprofit software vendor Abila has added  features to its cloud-based association management system Abila netFORUM Pro. Among the additions is integration with the Austin, Texas-based company's MIP Fund Accounting, accomplished via a financials export CSV File format.

TIW Technology has introduced Version 11.0 of Alere, its business application suite. Version 11.0 integrates all Alere modules, including Accounting, Manufacturing, CRM, Mobility, InTouch, Data Acquisition and Alere Cloud. However, users can choose which modules they wish to activate.

Unanet has named Sangeeta Dworkin as VP of customer success management. She was most recently interim CFO of Crowdkeep from August through this month and was VP account management customer success for Kitcheck from September 2015 through August 2016.