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VAR STARS 2017, LAST CHANCE

VAR StarsYour chance is almost gone. Submissions for Bob Scott's Insights' VAR Stars for 2017 are being accepted. Send in your form or request one. Don't do so and you may get left out and some firm less deserving takes your place on the list of quality VARs.

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RANDOM THOUGHTS: TOM PRICE

Tom Price, former Health and Human Services SecretaryThe hacking of credit rating agency Equifax has been big news. I think someone did take my information. When I asked for a report from Equifax, there was a note at the bottom "This guy's going to be easy pickings."

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ABILA SELLING TO ASSOCIATIONS

Erin Shy, AbilaA new initiative for software vendor Abila is to sell its nonprofit applications to associations. The market has been opened up with this year's purchase of Abila and its MIP fund accounting line by the newly formed Community Brands.

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BLACKBAUD NAMES EUROPE HEAD

Lianne McGrory, Blackbaud Blackbaud has named Lianne McGrory as managing director of Blackbaud Europe. McGrory, who started with the company in 2004, working at locations in Glasgow, Scotland, and Dublin, Ireland. She moved to Sydney Australia in 2010 where she managed the sales and professional services business for Blackbaud Pacific.

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AVIDEXCHANGE TO EXPAND

Michael Praeger, AvidXchange AvidXchange, which make payment products, has said it will expand its Utah operations. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company says it will add 218 jobs at its Salt Lake City office. AvidXchange entered Utah with its 2015 purchase of Piracle.

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MIP CO-FOUNDER TURLEY DIES

Rusty Turley, MIP Co-founderHans E. "Rusty" Turley Jr.,  a co-founder of the former Micro Information Products, died on September 24. Turley co-founded MIP in 1982 and sold the company to the Sage Group in 2001.

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KEYEDIN ENHANCES ESTIMATING

Dave Lechleitner, KeyedInKeyedIn has enhanced the real-time estimating functions in KeyedIn Manufacturing. The company said the changes take estimating from "best guess" to "best practice" with real-time views of preferred vendor pricing and margin calculation.

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FFORCE NAMES PRODUCT OFFICER

Daniel Brown, FinancialForceFinancialForce has hired Microsoft veteran Daniel Brown to the newly created role of chief product officer. Brown was most recently director of corporate development and strategy for Microsoft, a job he moved into in September 2016.

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SUGAR UPDATES RELATIONSHIP APP

Rich Green, SugarCRM SugarCRM updated Relationship Intelligence, its product line for gathering and analyzing customer data from a wide variety of sources. That includes broader geographic support for SugarCRM Hint, which was introduced for the United States in June.

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EDGEWATER FIRES RANZAL-KNOWLES

Robin Randal-Knowles, Edgewater Technology Edgewater Technology has fired Robin Ranzal-Knowles, head of the company's Oracle consulting business. The termination occurred on August 23, but slipped my examination of 8-Ks. The LinkedIn profile of Chris Churchill, a VP of Edgewater Ranzal, shows he is acting president of the group.

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