Two long-time VPs are leaving Sage North America - Kevin Rooker, VP of sales management and operations, and Drew Macbeth, VP of sales. Rooker, who recently was given responsibility for channel communications, is reportedly going to healthcare communications company, Vocera. That would make sense since that company's EVP of Sales & Services, Paul Johnson, was an EVP at the former Sage Business Solutions unit from November 2007 through March 2011.

Verint Systems is buying Kana Software, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR, for $450 million. The private equity firm paid $48.9 million cash for Kana in 2009 so investors have done well. Kana specializes in customer service products, including self-service tools such as chat and web self-service, along with social media monitoring. Verint markets what it calls Actionable Intelligence solutions to capture and analyze customer transactions.

With the National Retail Federation holding its Big Show in New York City next week, the wires will be drenched in stories about retail systems. That includes Acumatica, I believe a first-time exhibitor, which is introducing the Acumatica Retail Management Solution, described as "as complete system for retailers that combine Magento eCommerce and Point of Sale technology built on the Acumatica platform." The product is actually coming from Intuitive Tek of Lakewood, Colo., which is led by president Brian Storrs and Doug Hellenback, VP of operations. Also debuting is Mobile 2.0 for its Prism system from Retail Pro International.

Infor, which has been investing heavily in product development, broke into the black for the second quarter ended December 31. The company has been built via aggressive acquisitions and the resulting debt has been a drain on earnings. But with the recent period, things clicked. Net income for the most recently ended period was $63 million, compared to a loss of $22.7 million the prior year. Quarterly revenue was $698.5 million, a rise of 2.3 percent from $682.5 million in last year's corresponding period.