SugarCRM has signed an agreement with Infosys under which the two will address the enterprise CRM market. The companies will collaborate on joint opportunities with Sugar selling its software into that space and Infosys providing related services. The software company will invest in adding Sugar to the Infosys Digital Integration Services Center of Excellence, and in developing skills within that center. The companies said they will build out reference architectures and solutions for selected industries, including electronics, financial services and manufacturing.

CPA firm Wipfli says it has become the first U.S. channel organization to use Microsoft Dynamics for business process outsourcing in the United States. The Wipfli press release says that the BPO Platform was already offered in Europe. The firm says it has provided outsourced accounting services for decades—presumably via QuickBooks which is shown on its Top 100 VARS submission. The organization says it now will offer these and more services to mid-sized clients via the Dynamics platform.

Accounting firm Sikich has acquired Altico Advisors, a midmarket reseller based in Marlborough, Mass. With $45 million in revenue, Naperville, Ill.-based Sikich was No. 9 on Bob Scott's Insights Top 100 VARs for 2015. Altico was No. 59 with $7.9 million in revenue. The acquired firm carried Dynamics GP and CRM and NetSuite Sikich carries those and Dynamics AX, NAV and SP. Altico was founded in February 2005 by CEO Michael Kean, who had been a director at the former Tectura.

The stronger American dollar took a $19.9-million toll on the revenue of business analytics vendor Qlik Technologies for the second quarter ended June 30. The company lost slightly more than $13 million for the most recently ended period, a rise from a loss of $10.2 million a year earlier. Revenue reached $145.8 million, up 10.8 percent from $131.6 million in last year's corresponding period, an increase of 26 percent in constant currencies. The impact stemmed from the fact that 68 percent of Qlik's revenue is dominated in foreign currency.