Brad Smith, who held important executive positions with Sage North America, has started a new business. His company, Vector Business Navigation, was founded in September, but only recently popped up when Smith changed his LinkedIn profile. Smith's profile said he "Created a suite of service offerings and tools to diagnose, design and deliver strategic multi-year CX transformations".

Continuing to grow its business segments outside of financial software, Net@Work has acquired Dresser & Associates. Dresser, based in Scarborough, Maine, has been a frequent member of the Sage President's Circle and has about 600 customers. "For us to be an amazingly good HRMS shop, we needed to expand our acquisition strategy," Net@Work co-president Alex Solomon said this week about the deal.

Executives of Edgewater Technology, which owns the Fullscope reselling business, said this week they were happy with the results for the first quarter ended March 31. The loss was down and acquisitions brought increased service revenue that hiked the top line. A loss of $763,000 in the most recently ended quarter was better than the $940,000 in red ink a year ago.

Accounting firm Wipfli has acquired Reston, Va.-based Brittenford Systems. As with the recently announced purchase of BCG & Co.—including its BCG reselling and consulting operations—by Sikich, we have an accounting firm in the Bob Scott Top 100 VARs, acquiring another member of the Top 100. In the 2015 list, the reselling and consulting portion of Wipfli was No. 11 with $37 million in revenue while Brittenford was No.90 with $4.82 million.