Sage says its organic revenue for the third quarter ended June 30 was up 6 percent over a year earlier. The figures were given as Sage issued its third quarter trading update. European companies provide trading updates for their first and third quarters with percentages of change but no monetary amounts for revenue and earnings.

Sage has published a media guide to prep its channel members in a document that also shows its channel events are closed to the media. I suppose other companies provide media guides, but this is the one I happen to have. The trend continues that Sage is largely focused on providing information about its celebrity speakers: Richard Branson, Zoey Deschannel, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Herjavec, who will be a panel on the impact of cloud computing.

Nancy Harris, who has run Sage operations in Canada for several years, will become EVP of Sage's North American partner and accountant business. Her prior job is being filled by Paul Struthers as EVP and managing director of Sage Canada. She will be based in Richmond, Ontario. Struthers had worked at Amdocs since January 2001 and was VP and GM in his last position there starting in July 2014.

Sage CEO Steve Kelly said this were there are 15,000 individuals registered for Sage Summit. And there are another 15,000 who has signed up to watch remotely the United Kingdom-based CEO said this week in a tweet. So is this a half full glass or half empty? It's a good number, but the total does not meet the 20,000 the company told exhibitors it would get.