Robert Johnson, who held key sales positions with Avalara and Sage, has taken the position of national sales director with Ameriflex. Ameriflex offers HR and related products, including OBRA administration and special plan billing services and  compliance services. Johnson was with Timberline/Sage from 1999 through 2011.

Sage has selected Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group as a keynote speaker for its Summit conference in late July in Chicago. And thus it begins for the event planned for July 25 through 28. Hopefully, we will see a different brand of PR than we saw in the 2015. That was built around the premise that everyone, including the trade press, wanted to see high-profile speakers like Colin Powell.

Fishbowl has introduced four online products that are aimed at businesses that need to manage inventory. These include Fishbowl Commerce, an online hub that integrates Fishbowl across multiple e-commerce platforms, and Fishbowl Go, an app for Android devices that supports barcode scanning, picking, packing, shipping, cycle counting and other warehouse jobs.