Avalara pumped money into sales and marketing and R&D but still managed a slight narrowing of its loss in the first quarter ended March 31. The sales-and-use tax vendor reported the quarterly numbers in its amended form S-1 as it prepared to go public this week.

Deltek has hired Mike Strazza as its SVP of global sales. The software company said this week Strazza will lead both direct and channel sales around the world. Previously, he was with CA Technologies form August 2005 through May this year.

So much for the Adaptive insights initial public offering. Workday is acquired the cloud-based budgeting and planning software company. Workday this week said it will pay $1.55 billion for Palo Alto, Calif.-based Adaptive, including $150 million in unvested equity issued to the target company’s employees.

Deltek has acquired ConceptShare, an Ottawa, Ont.-based company that markets a creative operations management platform. The platform is used in online proofing and review and approval processes of marketing and creative work for agencies and in-house creative teams.