The switch to the cloud, combined with the impact of currency changes, cut a swath through the QAD revenue line for the year ended January 31. The impact of the stronger dollar chopped $19.9 million from fiscal 2016 revenue. And so revenue fell to $277.9 million for the most recently ended year, down 5.8 percent from $295.1 million for fiscal 2105. On a constant currency basis, revenue was up 1 percent.

The Prodware Group, a Sage and Dynamics reseller based in France, reported a 5.9-percent increase in earnings for the year ended December 31. The net result hit about $6.3 million. Prodware also reported net result group share of roughly $6.56 million for the same year, up 8.1 percent over 2014. [Don't ask me to define the difference.] Read more...

There is a headline we have not seen in a long time. But venerable CRM publisher GoldMine has signed Trivium Technology of Boston, Mass., as an exclusive GoldMine VAR. The other interesting factor is that Trivium was founded this year to handle GoldMine, again something a bit rare. Trivium sells both GoldMine and GoldMine Cloud.

NetSuite has raised the base salary of its five top executives effective April 1. In a filing with the SEC this week, the cloud software company reported the figures, whose major impact will be to raise the target incentives each of these individuals is eligible to receive for 2016. Not surprisingly, the largest increase went to president and COO James McGeever, who took over the president's job from CEO Zach Nelson in July.