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EDGEWATER OPPOSES RIVAL DIRECTOR SLATE

Frederick DiSanto, Ancora Catalyst FundsIn its second proxy fight in a year, Edgewater Technology has urged shareholders reject a slate of candidates for its board of directors. The slate was nominated by Ancora Catalyst Funds, which holds 9.5-percent of the reseller's common stock.

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APOGEE BUYS DSM COMPUTING

Sheldon Waters, InfoTracManaged services provider DSM Computing Services, based in Toronto, Ontario, has been acquired Apogee IT Services, another MSP headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa. Terms were not disclosed. DSM was founded in January 1998 by CEO Sheldon Waters.

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CLOUD STRONG FOR SAP IN 2016

Bill McDermott, SAPSAP rode the cloud and SAP4/Hana to a 20-percent increase in earnings for the year ended December 31 on a 6-percent rise in revenue. These are preliminary results and the German software vendor will report final result and hold its earnings webcast later.

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DELL BOOMI NAMES VP

David Tavolaro, Dell Boomi Dell Boomi has hired David Tavolaro as VP of business development. In its announcement, Round Rock, Texas-based Boomi said, "Tavolaro is responsible for advancing Boomi's fast-growing global partner channel, which has grown more than fifty percent in the last year."

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SAGE'S INNOVATION PLANS OUTLINED?

SageSage has a job opening that gives an outline for some interesting plans. I don't remember these products being the subject of a press release. So the description of the duties of Product Marketing Director Ecosystem [Is English not the native language for people who phrase titles this way] produces some interesting questions about future plans.

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QUICKBOOK CONNECT EXPANDS

QB ConnectOne of the most interesting changes to the 2017 show calendar has been the expansion of QuickBooks Connect. Until this year, the show highlighting Intuit's low-cost accounting software has been a one-site affair held in San Jose, Calif., where this year's edition will be held November 15-17.

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FINANCIALFORCE FOUNDER JOINS UNIT4

Jeremy Roche, Unit4Jeremy Roche, founder and former CEO of FinancialForce, has joined Unit4. Roche has become chief product officer of the Netherlands based company which was an investor in FinancialForce when it was launched in 2009. Roche takes over from Ivo Totev. The hiring is one of a series of high-level executive moves under Stephen Sieber, who became CEO in April.

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NBS MARKETING VP JOINS CLEARSOURCE

Eric Dahl, ClearSourceEric Dahl has joined ClearSource, a Sandy, Utah-based provider of outsourced business services. Dahl moved to the company this month as VP of operations and marketing from reseller Navigator Business Solutions, also based in the Salt Lake City, Utah area.

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ACT VERSION 19 RELEASED

Lorcan Malone, SwiftPageSwiftPage has released Act v.19 in North America, Australia and New Zealand, and International English. The software include the new Act Companion mobile app, along with 30 revamped standard reports and updates to the Web API that are said to produced increased integration and increased compatibility with Microsoft Office.

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SMITH REPLACING LIDDELL AT XERO

Chris Liddell, XeroChris Liddell has resigned as chair of Xero Ltd. after accepting a position as assistant to Donald Trump. He is being replaced by Xero director Graham Smith. Liddell told the New Zealand-based company that accepting the position required him to resign the position he has held for three years.

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