It seems appropriate to mention up front that Serenic signed Catapult ERP, a reseller based in western Canada as part of its channel this month. That's on top of three U.S. VARs picked up in April and some international ones last year. Read more...

Wave Accounting has secured $12 million in funding for its efforts to develop the market for its online accounting applications. Based in Toronto, Wave said the funding round was led by The Social+Capital Partnership with participation from existing investors Charles River Ventures and OMERS Venture.

Infor has named Ali Shadman as SVP of a new organization that it said would help customers upgrade to the company’s latest technologies. Shadman, who reports to CEO Charles Phillips, is responsible for building tools and programs to accelerate customer upgrades to the latest release of Infor applications. One specific goal was to utilize virtualization in hybrid cloud, on-premise deployments. Previously, Shadman was VP and chief technologist for HP’s Technology consulting division. He also held executive positions with Unisys over eight years in two different tenures with that company.