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UECKER-RUST NOW N.D. COO

Jodi Uecker-Rust, State of North DakotaJodi Uecker-Rust has followed her old boss out of the financial software business into the North Dakota state government. The veteran of Great Plains/Microsoft and Sage has become COO of the state under new governor Doug Burgum. Uecker Rust held a variety of titles at Great Plains, ending as COO under Burgum, then the CEO.

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COLUMBUS PROMOTES BMI FOUNDER

John Hendrickson, Interdyn BMIColumbus has promoted John Hendrickson, the head of Interdyn BMI to the position of SVP of business transformation. And apparently BMI will finally be integrated with the other Columbus reselling operations in this country. Columbus purchased BMI in 2015 and the Minneapolis, Minn.-area reseller has played an important role in turning around the performance of Denmark-based Columbus in the United States.

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XERO NAMES GLOBAL PARTNER HEAD

Anna Curzon, XeroXero has named Anna Curzon as its first chief partner officer. Curzon, who had served as managing director for New Zealand for the last year, moved into the global role this month. In blog post on Xero's website, Curzon gave a general outline of her duties in the new job.

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ACCOUNTMATE SCRATCHES ROUNDTABLES

accountmateAccountMate has decided not to hold its roundtable discussions this year, but to focus on its new AccountMate Enterprise 2017 line. In the last few years, the company had alternated having a full annual reseller conference with the roundtable discussions.

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RANDOM THOUGHTS: GISELE BÜNDCHEN

Gisele BündchenInteresting to hear H&R Block's advertisements promoting the use of IBM's Watson computer to process tax returns. I hear there's an underground version of the Block advertisement. "My name is Watson. Why am I wasting my computing power on a bunch of penny-ante tax returns?

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ACUMATICA INTROS INDUSTRY EDITIONS

Jon Roskill, AcumaticaAcumatica has introduced two industry editions of its cloud-based financial suite. The latest is the Acumatica Commerce edition, which integrates with Magento via the Kensium Connector. Ray Rebello, the company's director of product marketing, described the new edition as addressing a large market.

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DELTEK DEBUTS LEARNING ZONE

Brian Daniell, DeltekThe Deltek Learning Zone has been launched as a one-stop shop for Deltek learning tools. Introduced by Deltek University, the online information provided is designed to get clients up and running more quickly on the software from the Reston, Va.-based project software company.

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SUGARCRM NAMES WILLEM CFO

Karen Willem, SugarCRMSugarCRM has named Karen Willem as CFO. She fills the position held by Steve Valenzuela from January 2015 through November 201. Willem was CFO of Lilee Systems from October 2015 through January. Before that she was CFO of iPass from June 2013 through June 2015. Besides being responsible for SugarCRM's financial operations, Willem will direct other general and administrative functions.

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DYNAMICS PRO OFFERS EXAM CRAM

DynamicsProThe Association of Dynamics Professionals (DynamicsPro) is offering preparation sessions for Dynamics certification exams. The association is holding Exam Cram webinars that feature Dynamics experts who discuss how they passed the tests.

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MATH YIELDS DYNAMICS REVS

MicrosoftAt the end of January, this newsletter tiptoed around the math that suggests the annual revenue for Microsoft's Dynamics operations. But after running the basic algebraic formula through advisors (i.e., my daughter the math major), it appears Dynamics revenue annualizes to about $1.1 billion to $1.2 billion.

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