RIVERWOODS, Ill. – CCH has opened the CCH Learning & Development Academy, which it says provides a big-firm approach to educating professional staff, and which will provide certifications to participants who complete courses and enable them to become part of the Academy Alumni Community, where they can discuss technical and business issues. The Academy's first offering, a School of Audit will be followed by a School of Tax planned for next year.

Sage CRM Solutions has begun a pilot test of a cloud computing edition of the SalesLogix suite of customer relationship management products with commercial availability planned for early next year 2010. Sage North America also said it is demonstrating the product this week at the Gartner CRM Summit in Scottsdale, Ariz.