CRM vendor Swiftpage has named April Mirabella as SVP of sales for Act North America. Based in Denver Colo. Swiftpage is the company that acquired Act and Saleslogix from Sage North America last year. Mirabella's duties include focusing "heavily on growing the existing Act! customer base as well as introducing and gaining traction with future Act! SaaS offerings." I would assume that since Act was a product on its way out at Sage that growing the customer base aggressively was not one of the priorities.

SAP's webcast this week about its 2013 results was as much an executive love fest as earnings call. Two key members of the executive team are changing roles. As planned, co-CEO Jim Hagemann-Snabe is becoming a member of the SAP supervisory board – the group that oversees the executive board such as the CEO and CFO, unlike the American model. And CFO Werner Brandt is retiring after 13 years in the top finance job at the German software giant.

Intuitive Tek has been named North American Partner of the year by Adaptive Planning. Based in Lakewood, Colo., Intuitive Tek, also an Acumatica reseller, was in the news recently as the developer of the Acumatica Retail Management Solution, which debuted at the National Retail Federation's Big Show in New York City. The company, led by president Brian Storrs, was also Adaptive Planning's Partner of the Year for the Western United States in 2013.

Socius, a Sage and Microsoft reseller, has named Ken Ledyard to the newly created position of director of strategic alliances. Ledyard, who had been director of marketing from July 2010 through January 2014, is responsible for a variety of efforts, including the company's Master VAR program. "This is a new position as we are launching and expanding a number of key initiatives and this position will help to provide focus to our efforts," Ledyard said this week.