Recruiting for sponsors for next week's Sage Summit closed on an up beat. This month, the company added Microsoft as its sole Diamond Sponsor and Deloitte Digital, MasterCard and Salesforce as Platinum sponsors, pushing that group to five members. Overall, that brings the total exhibitors and sponsors to 124, if I did the math correctly, and I had reported there were 114 a year ago. While the total numbers aren't up that much, the number of big players outside of the usual Sage reseller and ISV community look good, much better than last year.

Some followers might note my May 8 tweet that "The most word chewing heard at NetSuite was about CEO Nelson's crack about when COO Jim McGeever starts running the company". I got doubting looks when I suggested Nelson's statement at SuiteWorld wasn't a joke. However, this week McGeever took the President's job that had been held by Nelson. He also took a seat on the cloud company's board of directors.

The movement of reselling firms to cloud products advanced a step in the last few weeks. Last month, BKD Technologies signed to sell Intacct. This week, Wipfli said it is adding NetSuite to its roster of financial applications. It's particularly notable as BKD was recently named to the Dynamics Inner Circle and Wipfli to that vendor's President's Club. Wipfli was No. 13 on Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs for 2015 with $37 million in revenue. It carries Dynamics AX/GP and Abila MIP.

Aplos Software, which makes cloud-based nonprofit software, has published its application programming interface. Making the API public enables developers who write software for nonprofits and churches to interface their software products with Aplos. "The API will allow these organizations a convenient way to keep their data up to date across all of their platforms and reduce the amount of time required to manage their organization," Aplos CEO Tim Goetz said in a prepared statement.