Sage this month showed its 12-month product road at the home country version of its Summit conference in the United Kingdom. While there were the U.K-0nly products, the company's update of its three global products, Sage One, Live and X-3, presumably has worldwide consequences.

Nonprofit software vendor Blackbaud has acquired AcademicWorks, which makes scholarship management software. The acquired company's products serve higher education and K-12 institutions, foundations and grant-making institutions. Terms were not disclosed.

NAV-X has reached an agreement to represent the Agiles Group as a master VAR for the Agiles productivity suite, which includes its Workflow for Dynamics NAV. NAV-X markets NAV-X for Dynamics NAV which provides added functions for manufacturing and distribution users.