A 13.7-percent drop in North American revenue (largely in the United States) pulled down results for Columbus for the first half ended June 30. In this week’s earnings webcast, executives of the Denmark-based reseller and developer said the total was off 20 percent in local currency.

The switch to the cloud cut into results for manufacturing software vendor QAD for the second quarter ended July 31. Revenue dropped in three categories while subscription revenue rose.

Xero has selected country managers for the United States and Canada, the New  Zealand-based cloud software company said this week. The new country leaders are Ben Richmond for the U.S. and Will Buckley for Canada.