Abila has undertaken a new initiative, which involves marketing its nonprofit accounting software to associations. It is a market that the Austin, Texas-software company had not previously undertaken. However, the association market has changed, according to Erin Shy, EVP of nonprofit solutions and Abila GM.

Xero, the New Zealand-based cloud software vendor, has had turnover in key positions in sales and marketing in the United States this year. Most recently, Paul Miller, Xero's chief marketing officer for the Americas, left in August while Greg Volm,VP of sales for the U.S, took a new job in April.

A proxy fight over three seats on the board of directors of Automatic Data Processing reached the finger-pointing stage this week. ADP claimed that William Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Management seeks to oust three board members, flipflopped on major issues and had misrepresented the size of his firm's stake in the payroll company.