Naperville, Ill.-based accounting firm Sikich will acquire the assets of BCG & Co., the firms said this week. BCG is comprised by the related businesses, Brockman, Coats, Gedelian & Co., BCG Systems, Inc. and BCG Wealth Advisors. Akron, Ohio-based BCG has $18 million in revenue, which Sikich said represents its largest corporate acquisition. The deal brings together two organizations that had made Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs and VAR Stars several years running.

I think I just invented that term, but for the first quarter ended March 31, the revenue and loss for NetSuite both exceeded a 30-percent change over the prior year. The San Mateo, Calif.-based cloud software company continued its boom-and-spend ways as it reported results this week. The net loss was $29.7 million for the most recently ended quarter, an increase of 30.9 percent over $22.7 million a year earlier.

It is not contributing significantly to revenue, yet, but the new channel being assembled by nonprofit software vendor Blackbaud, is growing. "We are signing up new VARs at a pretty decent clip," CEO Mike Gianoni said during this week's earnings webcast. Gianoni gave no numbers for the size of the channel. However, he emphasized the company plans to approach resellers differently than when it had a channel that it disbanded several years ago.