Yesterday, the UK-based Sage Group said it had agreed to sell seven of its noncore products, virtually divesting itself of its North American operations. Notable divestitures in the CRM space are:

• ACT!, a contact and customer management solution for small businesses, and SalesLogix, a CRM solution aimed at the midmarket that Forrester ranked as a leader in the midmarket CRM Wave™), which were sold to to Swiftpage.
• Sage Nonprofit Solutions, a suite of solutions for fund accounting, donor and fundraising management, and grant management was sold to the Silicon-Valley based private equity firm Accel-KKR.