SAP has slowed down its recruitment of resellers to carry the web-based Business ByDesign. Recruitment got ahead of enablement and capacity, Kevin Gilroy, the VP who heads North American recruitment, said in an interview this week. Earlier this month, Gilroy said enablement had become a bottleneck in the ByD campaign and also said that the company was reshuffling resources to deal with the problem.

Two managers involved in recruiting resellers for SAP's Business ByDesign, Dawn Jaeger and Geoff Ashley, have left the company. SAP confirmed departures which it pictured as being "normal attribution." Ashley had held the position of director of business development since July 2010. He was gone from SAP for four months after he had served as director of channel sales for ByD, having worked at SAP from September 2004 through March 2009.

After a paragraph describing his pleasure in meeting channel members at least week's Summit Conference, Pascal Houillon, CEO of Sage North America, wished Laurie Schultz luck in an organizational announcement.

Infor's acquisition of Lawson Software is going to be much more than buy and milk the installed base. This week, Infor said it considers Lawson's M3 product line strategic to its growth and would deliver what it called complete industry suites built around the core M3 application. M3 systems were described as "designed for companies that make, move and maintain products or equipment." Read more...