Fourlane has been named Intuit's Reseller Partner of the Year for 2015. It is the fifth time the Austin, Texas-based organization has received the honor. Fourlane carries QuickBooks, QuickBooks Point of Sale and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions and says it had triple-digit growth for QBES. Fourlane is headed by CEO Marjorie Adams, whose firm provides bookkeeping, CFO and tax preparation services. Simon Pass, sales leader for the Intuit reseller program, called Fourlane," an important part of Intuit's Reseller channel."

Aptos, the former Epicor Retail Solutions, has hired John Kalil as chief growth officer. Kalil is one of several recent additions to management for Aptos, which spun out of Epicor in June. In November the company also hired the following: legal leader David Baum; finance leader, Mark Bentler; marketing leader Nicole Crowe; customer success leader, Bill Joyce; strategy leader Ian Rawlins; people leader, Steve Stanislaus' and technology leader, Mike Verdeyen.

Edgewater Technologies has acquired M2 Dynamics via, an Oracle Platinum Partner for $16.1 million in cash. The deal is an asset acquisition. M2 will join Edgewater Ranzal, the Oracle segment of the business of Wakefield, Mass.-based Edgewater. The Edgewater folks have been busy with CEO Shirley Singleton reporting her organization had been working on the transaction for several months—a brief overview says May.

Christmas and New Year's Day are both on Fridays this year. Figuring that readers don't want to read that day and I don't want to work that day, there will be one issue of the Bob Scott's Insights newsletter published on Wednesday, December 30. Items will continued to be posted to the website as warranted by events. So here's hoping that Santa includes M&A activity for the year-end to help keeping that issue from being too dreary. Happy Holidays from me and the gang at Progressive Media Group.