FinancialForce has decided to turn its human capital management business over to ADP. The decision was announced at the cloud software company's CommunityLive conference this week. CEO Tod Nielsen, on the job for six months, said the company needs to focus on what it can do best.

Chief data officer Tony Stewart is taking over leadership of Xero's small business products. The change was made as Xero announced Duncan Ritchie chief product and platform officer, his taking a sabbatical starting this month. Ritchie, who joined the New Zealand-based cloud company six years ago, will evaluate new roles within Xero later this year. The company said Ritchie led the recently completed platform migration to Amazon Web Services.

The Internet of Things has gotten hot, judging from the number of demonstrations and sessions at recent conferences, including Epicor's Insights and SAP's Sapphire. At the latter conference, a demonstration was made using a power drill to make a hole in a piece of concrete.