The corporation called Serenic, which marketed nonprofit applications under that brand, has become OneSoft Solutions. The name change was accomplished on July 28 as part of the deal via which the Serenic financial applications were sold to Sylogist Ltd. Both OneSoft and Sylogist are Canadian companies. With the morphing done, Serenic chairman Dwayne Kushniruk has replaced Randy Keith, who was with the old Serenic since 2007, as CEO and president of OneSoft. Keith remains a director for the next year.

The house of Michael Hall, who played the “good” serial killer “Dexter” is on the market. It comes with a set of knives and a lifetime supply of plastic wrap. ...  After two weeks away from ice skating, I was back for a lesson with my teacher. “It’s like I haven’t left,” I told him. ”The things I couldn’t do two weeks ago, I still can’t do.” Later, I was on a bench at the rink tinkering with my right skate, which was having a problem. “What’s the matter?” a guy next to me said. “I’ve got a screw loose.” “Yeah, but what’s wrong with the skate?” But my skating continues to improve. Just the other day, someone yelled, “What a Lutz!” or something like that.

Alliance Solutions Group, a construction software reseller, was named Sage Business Partner of the Year for Top Revenue for North America for 2014. ASG gets the trophy for having the highest product revenue across all Sage lines. Headed by managing partner, Mike Griffith, the company, based in Brandon, Fla., has offices in Florida, California and Texas. The other two top partners for revenue were Morristown, N.J.-based Accordant and Laguna Hills, Calif.-based Blytheco. Accordant is also a construction software specialist and Blytheco was recognized this year for both new license and cross-selling sales for Sage 100, 300 and 500 and for new license sales of Sage Fixed Assets.

Financial results for consulting and reselling firm Columbus plunged in the United States for the first half ended June 30. EBITDA for this country dropped by 83.6 percent to about $173,000 while revenue fell 24.7 percent to around $13.7 million. Combined with the U.S. results, a drop in sales in third-party software sales, the impact of currency drove revenue for the most recently half down 3.7 percent to about $78.4 million. Copenhagen, Denmark-based Columbus is executing a strategy of reducing its reliance on third-party products, such as Microsoft, and selling its own products.