Sage has introduced Sage Live for Accountants and Sage One Partner Edition. As with a lot of Sage product press releases, this one is long on the wonderful virtues of the products, but could be better on spelling out additional functions they have from other editions of these applications. There is more information about the Sage One Partner Edition, which is designed for accountants servicing sole-traders, entrepreneurs and micro-businesses. It is designed for onboarding clients and managing their billing and collaborating with clients by being able to view client data.

AKA Enterprise Solutions, which sells Dynamics AX and GP, has taken over Green Beacon, which markets Dynamics CRM. AKA, based in New York, has $20 million in revenue for 75 employees, according to its submission for Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs. In 2015, it ranked No 33 on the Top 100 list. Based in Newton, Mass., Green Beacon will operate as AKA Green Beacon. The two companies were already working together.

Registrations for the Dynamic Communities user conferences are booming. With Microsoft abandoning Convergence, the conference landscape has shifted for users seeking content aimed at them. "We are so far ahead of where we usually are," says Andy Hafer, executive director of Dynamics Communities. The organization's events, AXUG Summit, CRMUG Summit, GPUG Summit and NAVUG Summit, are being held in Tampa, Fla., from October 11 through 14.

The fact that Avalara introduced its CertCapture Mobile Scan App this week was probably not the company's most interesting news this week. The greater interest for most lies with its first-ever user conference, Crush 2016, held this week on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. the sales-and-use-tax company, which likes to party in a big way, led many of the 250 conference attendees who showed up behind a Dixieland band down Bourbon Street to the different restaurants where food was offered on consecutive nights of the show.