Epicor has issued what it calls a major upgrade to LumberTrack, formerly from Progressive Solutions. The application is designed for lumber and wood products manufacturers and wholesale distributors. New features include user-defined fields. The company said the software's data management features also more readily allow data to flow into other applications, such as the Epicor Dispatch and Delivery Management System.

Aptean, formed by last year’s merger of Consona and CDC Software, has named Paul Ilse as CEO. Ilse takes over from Monte Ford, who has become Executive Chairman. Ilse was most recently CFO of Atlanta-based Red Prairie Holding, a job he took in January 2007. He joined Red Prairie in 2006 as EVP of mergers and acquisitions.

Merit Solutions, a Dynamics reseller, has launched the AXUG Life Sciences Special Interest Group. Seven Dynamics AX users participated in the inaugural meeting at the Microsoft Convergence conference last month in New Orleans. “Quite a few more have expressed interest in participating going forward,” says Merit CEO Bill Burke.

Dwayne Kushniruk, chairman of the Serenic Corp., has nearly doubled his stake in the company after buying stock from another major shareholder. Kushniruk has acquired control of 2,590,833 common shares that had been held by Gordon Buchanan or companies owned by him. Before the transaction, Kushniruk held about 16.9 percent of the outstanding shares.