BI vendor Qlik has launched Qlik Branch, which it terms "an extended commitment to the developer and open source communities." The product provides access to the APIs of the company's Qlik Sense and QlikView lines to enable better and easier integration with home-grown and third-party web technologies and applications.

Scott Zandbergen, who has been VP of the business development and professional network for Wave Accounting, has moved to Intuit Canada. Zandbergen signaled the change of jobs in a Tweet that says he will lead marketing for ProFile, Intuit's professional tax software in Canada. Zandbergen held the post with Wave from May 2011 through December.

Nonprofit software vendor Abila has established a new channel program that simplifies the structure it inherited. Until now, the Partner Ecosystem had included elements that came when Abila was spun out of Sage in March 2013 and added when Abila acquired Avectra in August that year. Seven categories of partners have been reduced to three and other improvements have been made.

Xero showed the emphasis it puts on the market in the United States as it hired a new CFO who will be based in San Francisco. The New Zealand-based published cloud accounting software this week said it has hired Douglas Jeffries as CFO with the prior person in that role, Ross Jenkins, moving to the newly created position of COO. Xero also announced the hiring of Gregory Volm, who had previously been senior director of North American sales for Zendesk, as VP of U.S. sales.