Interdyn BMI has made its second expansion move in the reselling market this year. The Minneapolis-based company has taken over Interdyn CFO Consulting, which is based in Orlando. The action follows the death of Interdyn CFO Owner Steve Lublin in May. BMI absorbed Little Rock, Ark.-based Reach Solutions about a month ago.

SAP has expanded its PartnerEdge channel program to enable resellers to handle its BusinessObjects business intelligence software. The initiative is kicking off in China and will be rolled out in phases to other geographies. Previously, the channel interested in BI had been limited to selling Crystal Solutions. But under the new program, resellers that are sponsored by an SAP-endorsed local distributor can handle BusinessObjects.

The headline here should probably be “Exact Changing Almost Everything". The planned international roll out of Exact Online both internationally and into the midmarket is just one change under new CEO Erik van der Meijden. In this week’s earnings webcast, he expressed the obvious with “The current strategy is not working out effectively when it comes to growth.”

Avalara has inked a deal that brings QAD into its wide-ranging list of software allies. In a typical arrangement, QAD is integrating Avalara's cloud-based, sales-and-use tax services into its enterprise application via the QAD AvaTax Connector. QAD serves manufacturing customers with about 60 percent of its revenue coming from outside the United States but this deal is aimed at business in North America.