Sage Nonprofit Solutions, which was sold to Accel-KKR in March, has become Abila. The new company name was rolled out this week, although the operation remains in Austin, Texas, which has been its home as Sage and as Micro Information Products, the predecessor company that originated the Sage Fund Accounting line. CEO Krista Endsley, SVP of the Sage unit for four years, said the company will remain faithful to channel distribution. It also plans a CPA program for later this year.

Avalara continues to add to its executive ranks. The sales-and-use tax software company has named Peter Horadan to the new position of EVP of engineering and was most recently SVP of engineering and client service for Scout Analytics, which makes recurring revenue management products.

 British Dynamics VAR m-Hance has opened a headquarters in Boston and appointed a VP of sales for North America. The move was termed “ part of its ambitious worldwide growth plans.” The company named Paul Crompton to the sales VP job. Crompton was U.S. sales manager for V1 Document Management from June 2009 until May this year and was sales director for Datel from May 1997 through May 2009.

Epicor Software has released iScala 3.0, which features integration to the Epicor Ice business architecture. The architecture was already available for Epicor ERP, Prophet 21 and Eclipse and supports SQL Server 2012. Ice provides out-of-the box support for business activity queries with point-and-click access to data tables in iScala.