AlfaPeople, a Dynamics AX reseller, has sold its IT Service Management division to Gatineau, Quebec-based Provance. The deal transfers AlfaPeople's ITSM software, licensees and supporting personnel and other assets to Provance in exchange for equity. Provance will focus on software including IT Asset Management, on Microsoft platforms. The AlpaPeople and Provance products will be sold individually and packaged collections and be developed, supported and sold by the new merged entity under the Provance name.

Open Systems has acquired SouthWare Innovations, a financial software provider based in Auburn, Ala. No terms were disclosed as both companies are privately held. SouthWare was been around for a while—it was formed in 1984 by Jim Clemens, who has been its CEO since then. Open Systems, based in the Minneapolis, Minn., area, says SouthWare will continue to enhance its software and also market its software products.

Abila has named Bethany Little to the position of VP of client services. Little joins the Austin, Texas-based nonprofit software vendor after serving as VP of customer success for HotSchedules from May 2014 through this month. She takes over a position previously held by Cooper Caywood, who had joined the nonprofit software company in March 2014.

Xero, which publishes cloud-based software for small businesses, has named new managing directors for New Zealand and Australia. The two countries are the New Zealand company's biggest markets with Australia taking over No. 1 from the home country in the last two years. Anna Curzon became New Zealand managing director at the end of 2015 when Victoria Crone resigned to run for mayor of Auckland. Xero also said Trent Innis will replace Chris Ridd, who led the Aussie business for five years.