Adaptive Insights has released six planning and budget templates for nonprofit organizations. The visualization, KPI, and measurement templates focus on six types of nonprofits and are designed to enable organizations to quickly and easily adopt the Adaptive Insights for Finance application.

Syspro has released a new ERP package that supports multiple deployment options. The software company, with American operations based in Costa Mesa, Calif., said the new release can be deployed on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment.

Sage held a trading up date for its first half ended March that was not on the schedule. The company this week said organic growth was below expectations and reduced its guidance from 8-percent growth for the year ending September 30 to 6-percent growth.

One of the public television channels recently broadcast a promo for an upcoming episode of the cooking show "Lydia's Kitchen". It's called "Crazy for Mushrooms", probably not nearly as interesting as the name sounds.