Jennifer Warawa has become EVP of partners, accountants, and alliances as Sage shuffled people and executive titles this week. She takes over a position previously held by Alan Laing, who has become managing director for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

FinancialForce is a readying an effort to give its nascent channel more visibility. For one, the cloud company has invited me to its CommunityLive 2017 conference mid-June in Las Vegas. Also the hiring of Fred Studer in March as chief marketing officer suggests that since he was been involved with organizations with active channels.

The only thing standing between Intuit and growth in net income for the third quarter ended April 30 was taxes. The company had operating income of $1.4 billion, a rise of 12.4 percent in the third quarter of fiscal 2016. After taxes, that dropped to earnings of $964 million, down 6 percent from slightly more than $1 billion in last year's corresponding period.

I am wary of the move towards consumerization since so much I have seen makes instruction very cartoony. I just saw this at a medical center: "You've just lost a leg. Before the doctor tries to sew it back on, here is some helpful information you ought to know.