Connie Certusi, one of the last executive holdovers from Sage’s earlier days, has left the company. In a Facebook post, Certusi announced that July 14 was her last day at Sage after 21.5 years.

Infor has signed on to integrate ADP's services and processes with its Infor HCM in the United States. The payroll company appears to be on a campaign to offer products through HCM. In June, FinancialForce announced it is largely offloading HCM functions to ADP and Infor noted that alliance, along with ADP's integration with Oracle, Workday and SAP.

Microsoft has reshaped its categories for revenue for the year ended June 30. As it reported results for fiscal 2017, the software said "Dynamics products and cloud services revenue" increase 7 percent, 9 percent in constant currency. That's a bit different than saying Dynamics revenue rose that much isn't it?

Technology changes usually proceed at a rate far slower than expected by those of us who spend a lot of time living with them. It took the tax and accounting market years to adopt Windows and it has been slow to move to the cloud.