Project AX, which has vowed to become a major Dynamics AX dealer, has changed its name to Enavate. Actually, it says it already is a big AX player and will grow through acquisition. The company was visible on the floor of Convergence with a decent size booth. This month, it also picked up an industry veteran. It hired Joe Corigliano as VP of global alliances. Corigliano was previously VP of global partners and alliances with BI vendor Targit from January 2014 until taking the new position.

Former Dell executive Donna Troy, who joined Epicor as a high-profile hire, is leaving more quietly. The company said that Troy left the company as of March 12. Troy had served as EVP for the company's ERP operations for the Americas since July 2013. Last month, Epicor said that sales execution problems had hurt ERP results in the United States, with revenue from that segment dropping by 2.8 percent for the quarter for the first quarter ended December 31 over the prior year's results.

Open source vendor SugarCRM has acquired what it described as "the intellectual property rights and other assets of Stitch, leading developer of personal assistant technologies that enhance productivity for mobile users." That means it bought Stitch, a San Francisco, Calif.-based company running on venture capital funding. Stitch pitches its products as making personalized recommendations to users based on integrated analysis of data in email, calendar and CRM systems.

Jeff Lynn, who was chief people officer at Tribridge, has become president of the reseller's Microsoft Business this month. Lynn had held his previous title of chief people officer with the Tampa, Fla.-based Dynamics VAR since January 2014. As the first person to be a CPO at the VAR, his areas of responsibility included recruiting, human resources, the Tribridge Academy, and managing the company's senior regional directors.