Unit4 has named Christophe Haugen as EVP Strategy and Operations. The Utrecht, Netherlands-based financial software company says Haugen is "responsible for driving strategy, corporate development and continuous business improvement across the global business." He was with Bain & Company from September 2007 until taking the job with Unit4. Since July 2012, he was a senior principal in Bain's European Private Equity and technology practices.

SAP recently announced partner awards in about every country and product category you could think of. But one was missing in some key geographies. While there were awards for the Business ByDesign channel members in EMEA and Europe and the Middle East, there were none in North America. The product was also missing from awards in Asia Pacific Japan; China and Latin America. But we're primarily concerned with North America here.

Business in Europe was a major factor in a 6.6-percent increase in organic revenue for Sage's first quarter ended December 31. The company said this week that a 10.4-percent rise in organic recurring revenue was driven by a 35.7-percent hike in subscription income. The first quarter "does represent good progress," CFO Steve Hare said during a webcast of the trading update. In trading updates for the first and third quarters, European companies do not release actual revenue and earnings.

Kirill Tatarinov, who headed Microsoft's Dynamics operations from July 2007 through October 2015, has been appointed president and CEO of Citrix. The Citrix webpage with the press release announcing the move carried the sub-headline "Veteran Microsoft Executive Brings Product Leadership to Citrix", which seems to sum up the reason for his hiring.