Accel-KKR has made an investment of undisclosed size in On Center Software, which markets software for the construction industry. Rob Palumbo, managing director at Accel-KKR, said his firm believes "there is substantial opportunity for expansion in software and services in the construction industry." It's a continuation of a trend by the investment firm to put its money in specialized software companies, many connecting with financial applications. Earlier this year, it acquired the former Sage NonProfit Solutions, and created the company now known as Abila, and it invested in SwiftPage to finance that company's acquisition of Act and SalesLogix from Sage. It also purchased a majority interest in supply chain software company Accellos in October 2012. Based in The Woodlands, Texas, On Center markets estimating and project management software and has been in business since 1998. On Center integrates with a number of packages including Sage 300, the former Timberline Office. It also links with Cert-In Software Systems, Roger Shaw & Associates, and Prime Estimating Software and Services. Sage's construction and real estate folks have shown confidence Sage will keeps its applications in this area. But you'd have to think Accel-KKR has made or will make a bid.

Nonprofit software vendor Abila has added three members of its executive team. It might be a little newsier if they had come from outside the company, but all had held executive positions at Avectra, which Abila acquired in August, and two of them had the same title at the former employer. The three  are Russ Odom as SVP and general manager of netForum Enterprise, Craig Dellorso as its chief customer officer and Jay Love as senior vice president. Abila was formed this year after its backer, Accel-KKR, acquired the former Sage Nonprofit Solutions. Both Odom and Dellorso will be working with netForum, acquired when Abila purchased Avectra. Dellorso had been with Avectra since January 2006 and had held the same title he now has with Abila since February 2012. Odom was Avectra's CFO from 2008 until August. Love had the same title with Avectra since August 2012, is also founder, and currently CEO of Bloomerang, a position he has held since September 2012. Odom's retention is the biggest news since CFOs at acquired companies can be awfully expendable.

Bill Anderson, who had been the director of marketing for Tribridge, left the Tampa, Fla.-based company in the spring. Anderson moved to To-Increase as global marketing director in March, but this is one of those moves that did not get widely known. (Meaning To-Increase did not issue a press release.) Before joining Tribridge in February 2009, Anderson was VP of marketing for the former ePartners. EPartners was then purchased by Tribridge in December 2011. To-Increase, based in the Netherlands, is the software arm of Danish Dynamics VAR Columbus and develops applications on top of Dynamics AX and NAV and was acquired by Columbus in 2006. Anderson's resume has some real highlights since during his tenure Tribridge was Microsoft's Worldwide Dynamics Partner of the Year in 2008, 2010 and 2012. Anderson came to ePartners via its purchase of the former Progressive Business Solutions in 2001, where he had run marketing since 1995.

SAP may be saying the Business ByDesign is not dead. But rival NetSuite is telling the world that the online program is going the way of the dinosaurs. On its home page, NetSuite has posted what it is calling "SAP Business DyDesign Sunset Migration Program" replete with an art element that represents lovely, glowing sunset.