Avalara announced its purchase of the FuelQuest excise tax line from Zytax two weeks ago. But it did not disclose terms. However, a recent SEC filing from the Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based sales tax software company suggests an amount. Avalara reported it sold $26.3 million in equity in connection with an acquisition. The total amount of the shares for sale was just short of $37 million (three dollars short to be exact).

Logan Consulting has been named Consulting Partner of the Year by QAD. Based in Chicago, Ill., Logan popped up this year with a request for an application for Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs and easily made the list with $11 million in revenue. I have not seen the firm on any prior Top 100 lists from anyone. Logan carries QAD, a manufacturing package, along with Acumatica, Dynamics GP/AX/NAV and Intacct. The company was founded in 1992 by managing partner and president, Guy Logan.

OpenERP has raised $10 million in a new round of venture capital funding. And the Belgium-based company, which says the money will support R&D efforts and growth, changed its name to Odoo to "to better reflect its expanded areas of focus in CMS & Ecommerce and POS applications beyond the core ERP function." And I'm sure that's exactly what the name Odoo conveys to all of us. Odoo's American office, by the way, is in San Francisco. 

Maybe it was the hour delay in the SuiteWorld keynote, attributed to problems with the San Jose convention center system this week—press members with early seating stared at a convention-hall-sized projection of a black-and-white grid. But NetSuite CEO's Zach Nelson's leave-no-competitor-unbashed style seemed to have extra energy. There were visual aids; a photograph of Kirill Tatarinov, president of Microsoft Business Solutions, with that exec's year-ago quote that he was unaware of any completely cloud-based companies doing ERP seriously.