It is not contributing significantly to revenue, yet, but the new channel being assembled by nonprofit software vendor Blackbaud, is growing. "We are signing up new VARs at a pretty decent clip," CEO Mike Gianoni said during this week's earnings webcast. Gianoni gave no numbers for the size of the channel. However, he emphasized the company plans to approach resellers differently than when it had a channel that it disbanded several years ago.

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SAP had single-digit revenue growth for the first quarter ended March 31 in what the company says is usually its weakest quarter. However, profit after tax rose to $641.2 million, up 38 percent over last year in IFRS terms, although an increase of only 9 percent on a non-IFRS basis. License sales were a drag on revenue, increasing only 1 percent to $3.57 billion. The revenue numbers missed SAP'S guidance and the Americas were a big factor in that.