Your chance is almost gone. Submissions for Bob Scott's Insights' VAR Stars for 2017 are being accepted. Send in your form or request one. Don't do so and you may get left out and some firm less deserving takes your place on the list of quality VARs.

The hacking of credit rating agency Equifax has been big news. I think someone did take my information. When I asked for a report from Equifax, there was a note at the bottom "This guy's going to be easy pickings."

A new initiative for software vendor Abila is to sell its nonprofit applications to associations. The market has been opened up with this year's purchase of Abila and its MIP fund accounting line by the newly formed Community Brands.

Blackbaud has named Lianne McGrory as managing director of Blackbaud Europe. McGrory, who started with the company in 2004, working at locations in Glasgow, Scotland, and Dublin, Ireland. She moved to Sydney Australia in 2010 where she managed the sales and professional services business for Blackbaud Pacific.