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Acumatica Offers Manufacturing Software on Azure

September 8, 2011

Business

acumatica, Business, cloud computing, Enterprise resource planning, Manufacturing, netsuite, Software as a Service

I have a bit of a particular interest in Cloud ERP providers moving into the manufacturing space. Manufacturing is a highly complex space and one where the traditional ERP vendors have a very strong position – manufacturing relies on…

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Acumatica Update

May 27, 2011

Business

acumatica, cloud computing, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, openair, Software as a Service

It’s been six months or so since I spoke with mid-market ERP vendor Acumatica (much more on them here) so I was please to spend some time with them last week getting an update about how they’re going. As…

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Cloud ERP Adoption Barriers–Functionality or FUD?

November 3, 2010

Business

acumatica, FinancialForce.com, netsuite, openair, Plex Systems

Recently Frank Scavo wrote a great post regarding what he determined was the key success factor for SaaS suites: functional parity. The thesis of Scavo’s argument was that, until cloud vendors provide true functional parity with on-premise solution, a…

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FinancialForce Update

October 27, 2010

Business

acumatica, Enterprise resource planning, financialforce, intacct, netsuite, openair, Salesforce.com

I spoke the other day with Jeremy Roche, MD of FinancialForce the accounting application built on top of force.com. Readers will recall that about a year ago Coda2Go, as FinancialForce was called then, was partially acquired by salesforce.com –…

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Acumatica Goes End-To-End

September 27, 2010

Business

acumatica, Enterprise resource planning, FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite

I’ve written several times in the past about Acumatica – the little ERP vendor who could. First to roll out on Azure, one of the first to embrace a dual on-prem/cloud strategy and one of the few to buck…

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Acumatica, the Three Year Price Guarantee and Some Happy Channel Partners

July 28, 2010

Business

acumatica, channel, netsuite, reseller, sipd, vars

Acumatica (more on them here) is something of a battler. A small ERP vendor, selling a cloud product (that is also, or can also be, an on-premise product) that’s up against big names whichever direction it goes – NetSuite…

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Xero Annual Report – Quick Analysis

July 22, 2010

Business

acumatica, iacez, intacct, intuit, kashflow, MYOB, netsuite, sage, Xero

At the Xero AGM today both CEO Rod Drury and Chairman Phil Norman addressed the audience and gave roundup of annual performance. Some quick points to note: Customer count now over 22000 (see graph below). Note the steepness of…

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SaaS Implementation. A Case Study and a Call for a Deeper Needs Analysis…

February 23, 2010

Business

accy2, acumatica, brainsell, erp

I spend a lot of time hand waving about the joys of SaaS accounting, I thought it’d be an idea to write some stories of successful implementations – kind of a case-study-lite type series. If you’re a vendor with…

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Microsoft Flicks the Switch on Azure, Acumatica Standing By

November 18, 2009

Business

accy, acumatica, azure, erp, Microsoft, netsuite, PaaS

Yesterday at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference the switch will finally be flicked on Microsoft’s long awaited cloud computing offering Azure. Of course spinning up an infrastructure offering is one thing, having products and services to run on it…

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