Sage has expanded its alliance with Fairsail, whose Human Capital Management Cloud system is built on the Salesforce1 platform. Under the new deal, Fairsail becomes the cloud HCM platform of choice for Sage X3. Sage X3 and Fairsail products will work together to provide companies with processes to manage financials, supply chain, payroll, workforce and talent management, all in the cloud.

Red Wing Software has introduced cloud deployment for its CenterPoint accounting and payroll software products. Current CenterPoint users can switch from locally hosted to the new cloud version and continue to use the software without paying an additional fee for the option. New users can set up in the cloud at the start. The Red Wing, Minn.-based company, generally known as an agricultural software specialist, said the program operates the same whether on premise or in the cloud.

I went to a recital at a church in Jersey City this weekend which was held to benefit restoration of its organ. Someone asked me what I knew about organ restoration and I replied, "They have pills for that now." .... I was watching my wife working on eggs in the living room. "Are those deviled eggs?" I asked. "No, just mildly annoyed," she responded. ... The 160th birthday of Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, is this month, and it's worth a reminder that sometimes a candle, is just a candle.