There is a headline we have not seen in a long time. But venerable CRM publisher GoldMine has signed Trivium Technology of Boston, Mass., as an exclusive GoldMine VAR. The other interesting factor is that Trivium was founded this year to handle GoldMine, again something a bit rare. Trivium sells both GoldMine and GoldMine Cloud.

NetSuite has raised the base salary of its five top executives effective April 1. In a filing with the SEC this week, the cloud software company reported the figures, whose major impact will be to raise the target incentives each of these individuals is eligible to receive for 2016. Not surprisingly, the largest increase went to president and COO James McGeever, who took over the president's job from CEO Zach Nelson in July.

Sage has named Van Diamandakis EVP of brand. And while the software company said this is "next stage of its global marketing plans", I believe we have been here before. After heading North American market for two years, Gabrielle Boko was EVP of global brand experience at Sage from July through December 2015. She surfaced in January at HP Enterprise.

Robert Johnson, who held key sales positions with Avalara and Sage, has taken the position of national sales director with Ameriflex. Ameriflex offers HR and related products, including OBRA administration and special plan billing services and  compliance services. Johnson was with Timberline/Sage from 1999 through 2011.