The Sage Group has reported that North American revenue hit $430.7 million for the half ended March 31, an organic increase of 1 percent over last year’s corresponding period. And while that’s not a hot growth track, it was an improvement. “We are very pleased to report our North American region is back to growth in the first half of this year,” Sage Group chief executive Guy Berruyer said in this week’s earnings webcast. The news was better for the accounting side since that organic growth was 4 percent excluding Sage HealthCare. Read more...

With a lot of Deltek’s new business shifting to subscriptions, the company shifted much of its emphasis in reporting bookings as a part of its metrics for its first quarter ended March 31. The project accounting company reported a loss of $6.6 million, compared to net income of $4.2 million in net income a year ago as acquisitions took a toll on the bottom line. Read more...

NetSuite has taken over more of the operations of the NetSuite Premier Payroll Service that had been handled by Perquest. As the NetSuite 10-Q for the March quarter put it, Perquest had been handling those “until it wound down its business operations.” That belatedly confirms reports about Perquest’s exit. Unfortunately, a few months ago, Perquest didn’t respond to responded to questions about the payroll company’s status, especially after a blog reported the business had been sold to ADP. Read more...

Marc E. Chardon, Blackbaud’s CEO, had a good 2010 as his pay hit $4.55 million on a big option award for the year. Option awards of $2.77 million for the year just ended compared to $418,907 in that category in 2009 and propelled him well past the $2.04 million in total compensation that year. Read more...