NetSuite has scored a major coup with the addition of Tribridge as a reseller. With $130 million in annual revenue Tribridge was No. 2 on Bob Scott's Insights Top 100 VARs for 2015 and the No. 1, McGladrey, is also a NetSuite dealer. Tribridge, which carries all four Dynamics ERP packages, has stellar credentials. The Tampa, Fla.-based reseller was named 2015 U.S. Microsoft Dynamics Outstanding Partner of the Year at the Worldwide Partner Conference this month. The business was the top global VAR in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013 and the top U.S. reseller in 2007.

Intuit had already announced this but the financial results for the year ended July 31 show the number of QuickBooks Online subscribers topping 1 million for the first time in a quarter. The software company ended the year with 1,075,000 subscribers, an increase of 57.4 percent over fiscal 2014. The July 31 total was 110,000 higher than the subscription number when the third quarter ended on April 30, an 11.4-percent rise from the prior quarter.

Indirect tax specialist Sovos Compliance has hired Andy Zupsic as COO and Jack Walsh as CFO. Zupsic was most recently SVP of global field operations of Progress Software from April 2012 through September 2014. Before that he was SVP of Americas enterprise sales for Juniper Networks from September 2009 through April 2012. From 1999 through September 2009, he worked at Microsoft.

A couple of months ago, I had an involved conversation with someone from Columbus, the Danish Dynamics reseller, about the impact of Interdyn BMI on the company's financials. This week's webcast of results left no doubt. CEO Thomas Honorè pointed to areas in which Minneapolis-based BMI, purchased by Columbus in February, was a major factor. A 15-percent increase in consulting revenue was "largely driven by Interdyn BMI in the U.S.," he said. Overall, Columbus had net profit after tax of about $3.9 million, an increase of 47.9 percent from the first half of 2014.