Community Brands, which is dropping its current channel program, will replace that next year with what it called “a strategic and referral program for the MIP platform.” The company last week said the current VAR program ends on December 31.

Stayed in the “Nobu Hotel” in Las Vegas recently. It’s a hotel within a hotel, essentially off a Caesar’s corridor.

RSM US and Eide Bailly continued dominating awards for the Oracle NetSuite channel this year. RSM US, based in Chicago, Ill., was again named Worldwide Solution Provider Partner of the Year, a title it has had in 2014 and from 2016 through 2021.