Mike Arntz, SVP of Sales for the Americas, has left cloud software vendor NetSuite to become SVP of worldwide field operations at Smartsheet. Arntz's departure was followed quickly by an announcement that Sam Levy had moved from the job of VP of sales to VP of sales for the Americas for NetSuite.

With frequent apologies for the quality of Intacct's reporting system, chief technology officer Aaron Harris said a new report writer will be available early next year in limited release. Harris said at this week's Intacct Advantage conference that a good reporting system is fast and powerful and that "the custom report writer we are giving to you today is none of the above."

Reports in the channel say that Bob Aronson, Epicor Software's VP of sales has left the company. An inquiry has been sent to Epicor about these reports.  An industry veteran, Aronson was with Tribridge from January 2005 through April 2008. He joined Microsoft in 2008 and was director of industry sales there until August 2013 when he then joined Epicor.

NetSuite sort of snuck its financial report for the September quarter into the world. Given its pending acquisition by Oracle there was no conference call and I didn't get any emails. Well, the trends continued with revenue for the third quarter ended September 30 up 26 percent rising to $243.9 million from $192.8 million in last year's corresponding period.