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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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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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