Hefty stock and option awards more than doubled the compensation for three top NetSuite executives in 2013. That included CEO Zach Nelson whose $12.8 million in compensation last year compared to $5.8 million for 2012. The overwhelming part of the increase came from $9.8 million in stock awards up from $4.3 million in 2012. Nelson also received $1.6 million in option awards, up from almost $680,000 in the same category. The same kind of boost was given to CFO James McGeever, whose haul last year was $8.7 million, up from $3.7 million.

It's practically a formula—NetSuite's GAAP loss rose and the cloud software company showed strong revenue growth. That was the story as the company this week released results for its first quarter ended March 31. The loss rose to $22.2 million, up from just over $13 million in last year's corresponding period. Revenue reached $123 million in the most recently completed period, a rise of 34 percent from $91.6 million a year earlier. Non-GAAP income rose to $4.4 million, up 58 percent over $2.8 million a year ago.

Epicor Software has unveiled Epicor ERP version 10 at its annual customer conference. The product is already available and the company this week gave a description of the features, along with the names of nine companies already live with the product. Epicor 10 gives users the choice of on-premise, cloud or managed service deployment and comes with a touch-enabled interface.

Infor will cut margins for maintenance and support, amid what appears to be broad new approach that will have a severe impact on its channel. The change is effective June 1. There are reports that maintenance and support margins, are being cut 50 percent and that the channel was blindsided by a move that will have a severe impact. Also making the rounds is the belief that Infor is going to stretch out payments to its channel.