SAP is seeking new organizations to sell its high-profile cloud product, Business ByDesign.  Michael Schmitt, the new sheriff in the ByD town says, "We are talking to a lot of partners to activate them, motivate and come along with them." The question asked at the SAP SME Summit this week was how the giant software will do that after much of the channel felt burned by SAP's repositioning the product upstream,

Stuart Blumenthal is leaving RKL eSolutions after a year as VP of consulting at the Lancaster, Pa.-based Sage reseller. Blumenthal is moving to Dallas, Texas-based Microaccounting Solutions to head up its SaaS, Hosting, and Business Intelligence division. He came to RKL in November 2013 after eight years and eight months at Information Systems Management with the sale of that VAR's Sage 500 operations to RKL.

Adaptive Insights has introduced Adaptive Suite 2014.2, a new version that features Adaptive Integration and OfficeConnect. In a prepared statement, Paul Turner, the company’s VP of product marketing, describes the suite as one that  “data analysts can easily contribute data to …” Adaptive Integration enables organizations to source and merge multiple data sources into the staging area, store snapshots of history, manage incremental or full data sets, store summary or detail data and cleanse and prepare data for analytics.