Deltek has acquired Axium, a company that markets accounting and project management application to architecture and engineering firms. The segment is already a key market for Deltek and the Herndon, Va.-based company said that Axium has more than 2,200 A&E customers in North American with most of these having fewer than 250 employees each. Terms were not announced. Clark Haley, CEO of BCS/ProSoft, a Deltek reseller, applauded the deal.

Net@Work, which is relatively new to the nonprofit business, this week expanded those operations by acquiring the Abila practice of ADSS Global. Based in New York City, Net@Work got into the market last year with the purchase of Huckstep & Associates, whose former owner, Jeannie Huckstep, is nonprofit practice director for Net@Work. The Abila nonprofit line, including Abila MIP Fund Accounting, was sold by Sage last year to Accel-KKR the investment firm that started Abila. Both Net@Work and ADSS are Sage resellers.

There's been a great deal of debate about Sage Summit 2014 conference in online groups. The debate is over the impact of the cut-rate pricing for users, the July Las Vegas location and some general distaste among resellers who don't think Sage is all that great to its resellers any more. A handy measuring stick is the number of exhibits for the event to be held July 28 through 31. Sage dramatically hiked the cost of booth space, while going for the uniform unibranding look. To date, I count 102 sponsors and exhibitors, which seems to me is up significantly from just a week ago.

Intuit is planning a show for the fall and it sounds like its competition with Xero is triggering a full-scale press. The show, called QuickBooks Connect, kicks off on October 21 in San Jose, Calif. Apparently, Intuit is talking of attendance of 4,000 to 7,000, bringing together small business owners, accountants, developers and entrepreneurs. The show kicks off on October 21 in San Jose, Calif. Xero has already said it will postpone plans for its second Xerocon to 2015.