BrightPearl, which markets inventory and retail management software for multi-channel merchants, has named Derek O'Carroll as CEO. The San Francisco, Calif., and Bristol, U.K.-based company said O'Carroll's job is to drive the software company to the next level. Interim CEO Andrew Porter, who joined the company in July 2014 after a more than 20-year career in banking IT, became CIO.

Crowe Horwarth has acquired Ablebridge, a Westborough, Mass.-based firm that resells Dynamics CRM and uses that package as a platform to build add-ons. Terms were not disclosed. Crowe said AbleBridge's flagship product is BenefitsBridge, which provides insurance benefits brokers with a highly specialized agency management application.

These numbers will mean more to the people who already know them, but Sage has detailed the number of customers sold for some of its prime products. The statistics for North America for the first half ended March 31 were detailed in a conference call this week. The number of customers sold during the half were reported as follows:

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is buying Qlik Technologies for about $3 billion in cash. The recent announcement of the sale of the Radnor, Pa.-based cloud analytics software company is priced at $30.50 in cash for each share of common stock. The parties said that's a 40-percent premium to the 10-day average stock price of $21.83 per share prior to March 3.