The Sage Group has entered an alliance with PWC to support its new cloud-based Sage Live by combining the Sage product with My Financepartner from PWC U.K. The press release announcing this deal suggests there's lots more to come as it says the launch will initially be in the United Kingdom. MyFinancepartner is described as providing an implementation service to SMBs and also a service that combines accounting and compliance with business advice.

UXC Eclipse, which has major Dynamics operations in the United States, has acquired the Dynamics AX and Microsoft Business Intelligence divisions of Koorb Consulting. Koorb is based in New Zealand and was reported to have more than 90 AX and BI sites. The parent UXC is based in Australia. Eclipse said the deal makes it the largest AX reseller in New Zealand one of the top two globally. Bradley Stroop, CEO of UXC Eclipse, says the company expects 55 percent of revenue to come from AX and related products for the year ending June 30, 2016.

Marc Scheipe, CFO for Sage North America, has taken over as the unit's interim president. And so comes to an end the four-month return of Jodi Uecker-Rust to Sage North America in that role. The announcement was made by Sage Group CEO Stephen Kelly, who said the company will continue to search for a North American head. Kelly praised Uecker-Rust this way: "Jodi has provided great leadership and created strong momentum and foundations for success."

New Zealand is mentioned on this site more than normal. And it's not that we have New Zealand readers in numbers, but the action there is part of the worldwide battle in small business cloud accounting software. Australia-based MYOB recently acquired Information Management Services, which is based in Hawkes Bay on the North Island, the third New Zealand payroll company acquired by the accounting software vendor in slightly more than a year.