-APQC, the nonprofit leader in benchmarking and best practices research, has released results and an infographic from a recent survey on personal productivity in which it found that—by a large margin—laptops beat smartphones and tablets as the favorite device of survey respondents. Despite extensive media attention, tablets such as the iPad® or Nexus 10 have yet to capture respondents' hearts like the old warhorse laptop—only 17 percent of respondents chose the tablet as their favorite device or tool.

Amalgamated Capital (AmalCap), the New York-based commercial finance division of Amalgamated Bank, is pleased to announce the launch of Non-Profit Funding Advance, a first-of-its-kind service for its growing set of non-profit clients. The new tool, which will allow non-profits to immediately secure funding from state grants they have been awarded, launched this month.

Aplos Software, LLC today began offering their new competitor software exchange program, QuickBooks Buy Back. With this program, new Aplos Accounting subscribers can trade in their QuickBooks desktop software and receive a credit for Aplos Accounting. In addition to the special discount, Aplos Software will provide free import assistance to convert their old accounting data into their new Aplos Accounting.

If you're currently a Sage for Nonprofit user you already know who Abila is even if you haven't yet heard the name. I asked Krista Endsley, CEO of Abila about the genesis of the name. She pointed to the root word 'ability' and its Latin meaning. "Abila comes from the word ability which comes from the Latin word meaning 'the power to act.' That's what we are doing and why we are now Abila. We want to give our customers the ability to act."