Exact has reported a 5.3-percent growth of EBITDA on a 3.8-percent increase in revenue for the first quarter ended March 31. But that was driven by increases in maintenance and service revenue with income from license sales down. There was also a sharp increase in revenue from Exact Online, which is not sold outside the Benelux countries.

ERP resellers that sell SugarCRM did not take home top awards from SugarCon, the conference being held this week in San Francisco. But since effort to enlist the accounting software crew is fairly new, they acquitted themselves well. (Does anyone convict themselves well? Hmm.)