Acumatica believes its channel is about the right size. "I am happy with the partners we have," CEO Jon Roskill said at this week's Acumatica Partner Summit. That means the company is unlikely to repeat the enlistment of 60 new resellers in 2015. Roskill said the company has more than 300 resellers worldwide with about 240 in North America. Of last year's class, 42 were added in this continent.

NetSuite has signed m-Hance, a reseller based in the United Kingdom, to the NetSuite Solution Provider Partner Program. m-Hance is a Microsoft VAR that handles Dynamics GP and CRM and which will market NetSuite through its newly created HighCloud Solutions division. San Mateo, Calif.-based NetSuite also named five resellers on the European continent. But m-Hance is the most high-profile win.

Kirill Tatarinov, who headed Microsoft's Dynamics operations from July 2007 through October 2015, has been appointed president and CEO of Citrix. The Citrix webpage with the press release announcing the move carried the sub-headline "Veteran Microsoft Executive Brings Product Leadership to Citrix", which seems to sum up the reason for his hiring.