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Navigator Business Solutions has been received the North America Partner Excellence Award 2015 in the category “SAP Cloud Resell." The award was one of many handed out this week in San Diego, Calif., North America Partner Excellence Award 2015 in the category “SAP Cloud Resell." The awards were given, as the always are, at the year’s Field Kick-Off Meeting. Grant Fraser, owner of the Pleasant Grove, Utah-based firm, said this was his firm's tenth consecutive award as a top partner.

Australia-based UXC, which operates in this country via reseller UXC Eclipse, has raised its guidance for the first half of 2015 ended December 31. The company based its decision on what it called "a solid first quarter and in light of a strong performance in November and December." The change included earnings that are substantially about the guidance given at its annual meeting in November. UXC had said revenue would be more than 8-percent higher than the $231.1 million reported in the first half of fiscal 2014.

Armanino has become the exclusive North American distributor for PrecisionPoint, which provides business intelligence functions for Dynamics AX and GP. As a part of the deal, the North American PrecisionPoint staff has joined Armanino's consulting team. Tom Mescall, Armanino's partner in charge of consulting, said the San Ramon, Calif.-based firm had utilized PrecisionPoint's data warehouse in building its Dynamics Insights reporting and analysis package.