The American Institute of CPAs will not release a list of Top Technologies for 2014. Although a survey was taken, the results were not what was wanted. The official word from the AICPA’s Information Management and Technology Assurance Section is the following:  "A technical issue with the 2014 Top Technology Initiatives Survey resulted in a much lower response rate from U.S. public accounting firms than in previous years, and may have affected the reliability of overall rankings.” So, it was decided not to release the results.

SWK Technologies closed a series of software transactions valued at more than $1 million 10 days. That declaration was made in a press release issued on July 1 by the parent of the Livingston, N.J.-based Sage reseller, SilverSun Technologies. The company said the sales featured a variety of products including SWK's BeerRun SaaS software, SWK's application hosting services, Accellos's warehouse management system, Sage’s X3 software and Qlikview's business intelligence solution, along with consulting services consulting services.

Open Systems has acquired BusinessWare  Consulting of Waterville, N.Y. And that news came only 13 days after it announced the first signing of a VAR of years. But the acquisition and turning a VAR into a company office has been a lot more typical of the Minneapolis, Minn.-based software vendor in the last few years. BusinessWare, which has been an Open Systems reseller for all of its 15 years in business, is now operating in the same location as the New York regional office of Open Systems.

HighJump, which markets TrueCommerce EDI, is merging with Accellos, also in the EDI space. The company will operate under the HighJump name. Accellos, based in Colorado Springs, Colo. was founded in 2006 by Michael Cornell who has become CEO of the newly constituted HighJump. Nick Manolis,
 SVP and GM of the TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Group,
 said in a prepared statement he would continue to operate the TrueCommerce group and he expects no significant changes to the product road map.