NetSuite has launched a business process outsourcing program that will enable channel members to offer services on the NetSuite platform. "This is truly outsourcing business processing," Amede Hungerford, NetSuite's marketing VP, said this week at the company's SuiteWorld conference. "It's not a write-up platform." For anyone who missed the latter point, Hungerford was taking a shot at competitor Intacct whose cloud-based application is used for accounting firms to deliver write-up services to clients, a major line of business for that company.

Avalara announced its purchase of the FuelQuest excise tax line from Zytax two weeks ago. But it did not disclose terms. However, a recent SEC filing from the Bainbridge Island, Wash.-based sales tax software company suggests an amount. Avalara reported it sold $26.3 million in equity in connection with an acquisition. The total amount of the shares for sale was just short of $37 million (three dollars short to be exact).

Logan Consulting has been named Consulting Partner of the Year by QAD. Based in Chicago, Ill., Logan popped up this year with a request for an application for Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs and easily made the list with $11 million in revenue. I have not seen the firm on any prior Top 100 lists from anyone. Logan carries QAD, a manufacturing package, along with Acumatica, Dynamics GP/AX/NAV and Intacct. The company was founded in 1992 by managing partner and president, Guy Logan.

OpenERP has raised $10 million in a new round of venture capital funding. And the Belgium-based company, which says the money will support R&D efforts and growth, changed its name to Odoo to "to better reflect its expanded areas of focus in CMS & Ecommerce and POS applications beyond the core ERP function." And I'm sure that's exactly what the name Odoo conveys to all of us. Odoo's American office, by the way, is in San Francisco.