Despite new product introductions and new alliances, nonprofit vendor Serenic saw its loss increase by 13.8 percent on a 5.2-percent increase in revenue for the second quarter ended August 31. The loss for the most recently ended quarter was $188,728, up from $165,900 in red ink a year earlier. Second-quarter revenue was just under $3 million, up from $2.8 million. All figures are in Canadian dollars.

Gem Accounts has named industry veteran, Ken Del Gobbo, as president of North American operations. Based in Australia, Gem recently moved into the United States with its midmarket financial software. Del Gobbo was most recently director of channel sales and senior director of channel recruitment for cloud vendor Acumatica. Based in Australia, Gem recently moved into the United States with its midmarket financial software.

Microsoft has rearranged its financial reporting. And with that switch, the little we have learned about Dynamics sales has disappeared with the first quarter ended September 30. For several years, Microsoft has given the percent change in Dynamics revenue. But even that has been taken away as the software giant lumped revenue in two major categories – consumer and devices, and commercial revenue. 

NetSuite has picked up some notable resellers from the competition. And among the most important names this week is the TM Group, a Detroit-area VAR, because of its long tenure with Dynamics GP. Owned by Judy Thomas, the reseller had the longest streak of any member of the channel in being named to the Dynamics Presidents' Club. Also coming on board is the Corporate Renaissance Group, whose head office is in Ottawa, Ontario. CRG handles Dynamics GP and CRM. Then there is Accretive Solutions, based in Lawrenceville, Ga., which handles some less standard stuff with partnerships with Xerox for the Xerox Cloud, Tri-Net for HR and Good Data for cloud-based BI. The ADN Corp., a Spanish-speaking company that carries the broad range of NetSuite products, does not show its location on its website. And finally there is Sabre Solutions in the San Diego, Calif., area, which markets Sage 100, 500 and JobOps. The TM Group had once been a Dynamics loyalist - it picked up Great Plains in 1985 and sells Dynamics GP, NAV, SL and CRM. But it had also picked up Sage X-3 as part of its non-Microsoft product line up.