Reseller Bennett Porter is transitioning out of its Syspro business. The Tigard Ore-based company has sold its Syspro practice to Systems Advisory Services effective October 1. It is still supporting four customers that use the manufacturing software application in conjunction with SAS, but only through December.

Xero has named Tony Stewart to the newly created position of chief data officer. The New Zealand-based cloud accounting software company says in this new role Stewart will be responsible for accelerating automation, business systems roll out and big data innovation. The hiring follows last month's phishing episode in which the company said  a small number of users tricked of customers were tricked into disclosing their Xero logons.

Financial software vendor AddonSoftware and CRM supplier GoldMine have created an integration between their applications. The link enables GoldMine's GM+View to directly access customer account and inventory information in Addon Software. From GoldMine, a customer's account information is accessible, as well as sales quotes, orders, account balances and inventory availability, across all warehouses.