Sage is moving its North American headquarters from Irvine, Calif., to Atlanta, Ga. The change coincides with the announcement this month of a series of Customer Business Centers being established. Irvine, I believe, was a legacy of the former State of the Art, which was purchased by Sage in 1998. Part of its sounds like the company putting all its chips on the rather fuzzy Sage Life.

Unit4 is collaborating with Microsoft to bring to market what it terms self-driving ERP. Developers from the companies will utilize technology from Azure's 's PaaS platform components and Microsoft Office capabilities such as predictive analytics, machine learning, event stream analysis and complex event processing. "Like a self-driving car, self-driving ERP takes care of the tasks that are better served by technology" Unit4 CEO Jose Duarte said in a prepared statement this week.

Epicor Software will no longer report its financial results to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company filed a suspension of its duty to file reports this month. So there goes another view into what's happening in the mid-market. Epicor had continued reporting since 2011 when the publicly held company formerly known as Epicor combined with Activant Solutions and went private after both were purchased by Apax Partners.

Microsoft plans to expand datacenters internationally to support its online services. Locally hosted centers include Toronto and Quebec City, Canada, expected to open by mid-2016. The software company said those will host Azure and Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online. Dynamics CRM Online will be available from India datacenters by the first half of next year with Office 365 and a preview of Azure available in that country next month. The company is also expanding operations in the Netherlands to provide more computing power.