Xero has named Tony Stewart to the newly created position of chief data officer. The New Zealand-based cloud accounting software company says in this new role Stewart will be responsible for accelerating automation, business systems roll out and big data innovation. The hiring follows last month's phishing episode in which the company said  a small number of users tricked of customers were tricked into disclosing their Xero logons.

Ken Lorenz, whose career has spanned a wide-range of mid-market jobs, has taken a position in business development for vertical ISV relationships for Acumatica. Lorenz has had two stints with SAP. He was with that software vendor from July 2003 through April 2009 and spent his first two years and two months with SAP America as a regional channel manager and finished with three years and 11 months as Business development director - global megachannel.

Financial software vendor AddonSoftware and CRM supplier GoldMine have created an integration between their applications. The link enables GoldMine's GM+View to directly access customer account and inventory information in Addon Software. From GoldMine, a customer's account information is accessible, as well as sales quotes, orders, account balances and inventory availability, across all warehouses.