SugarCRM has named Karen Willem as CFO. She fills the position held by Steve Valenzuela from January 2015 through November 201. Willem was CFO of Lilee Systems from October 2015 through January. Before that she was CFO of iPass from June 2013 through June 2015. Besides being responsible for SugarCRM's financial operations, Willem will direct other general and administrative functions.

Last week, Sage issued a press release about the introduction of five cloud products globally. The problem is the information issued was about as wispy as a cloud. Some products—or new versions—were released in the United States, but not in the rest of the world. Or it went the other way around—available elsewhere, but not here. Sage did itself a disservice.

Jeremy Roche, founder and former CEO of FinancialForce, has joined Unit4. Roche has become chief product officer of the Netherlands based company which was an investor in FinancialForce when it was launched in 2009. Roche takes over from Ivo Totev. The hiring is one of a series of high-level executive moves under Stephen Sieber, who became CEO in April.