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Acumatica 2016 Summit - Highlights Of The Event

By Harsha Sarjapur
acumatica-2016-mvp-program-winners-announcedAcumatica 2016 Summit kicked off in Orlando, FL at Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress with more than 600 attendees from Partners, ISV's, Customers and Prospects by far the biggest Acumatica audience and first Partner-Customer ecosystem summit. 

 Acumatica highlights include:
  • Acumatica was once again the fastest-growing Cloud ERP solution, growing at 134 percent year-over-year.
  • The company announced its 2,000th-customer milestone, doubling the size of its portfolio in less than 18 months.
  • Acumatica added 24 new Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to the ecosystem, an increase attributed to the open and flexible architecture of the platform as well as a growing customer base.
  • An additional 60 Value Added Reseller (VAR) partners joined the Acumatica community, ready to help customers worldwide meet the demand for Acumatica services.
Acumatica's headquarters is relocated from Kirkland, Wash. to Bellevue, Wash. this week, bigger office space for growing needs. 
"Since introducing Acumatica 5.0 to market last year, our teams have been listening to our customers and working to address common workflow needs," said Jon Roskill, CEO of Acumatica. 
The current version of Acumatica 5.0 delivers a full ERP suite that includes financials, distribution, accounting and CRM. New features in Acumatica 5.3, which is focused on performance, stability and mobility include:
  • Enhanced mobile app: Enables businesses and employees to enter, review and approve orders from anywhere, at any time. There are more scenarios than ever including mobile CRM, mobile sales orders and project time cards.
  • New web services API: Easier and more efficient to use, dozens of lines of code reduced to one, designed for the future. Facilitating rock solid and durable integrations with ISV products and online services.
  • Sales order reporting: New powerful reporting allows analysis of sales and profitability by customer, salesperson, order, item class, customer class and date.
  • Marketing automation: Synchronization between Acumatica and HubSpot to connect outbound marketing activities with CRM lead flow and processes, built using integration services to facilitate synchronization of key activities.
  • General ledger reclassification: Quickly and efficiently reclassify transactions during month end closing with full auditing and history tracking, removing tedious manual reversal and adjustments.
  • Support for Amazon Aurora RDS: Acumatica expands the choice of database (DB) availability for customers by announcing support for AWS Aurora Remote DB Service, enabling customers to benefit from the multi-zone availability and redundancy of Amazon's fastest-growing DB service.
  • Deeper integration with Microsoft Exchange: Acumatica makes it possible to synchronize data and records—including email, contacts, tasks and appointments—with Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 accounts. 

Acumatica Partner and ISV Awards 


One of the things we’re most looking forward to at the upcoming Acumatica Summit in February is highlighting the achievements of our amazing Partners and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). 
Ali Jani Vice President, Partner Strategy, Enablement, and Services at Acumatica presented the awards along with Jon Roskill.


MVP Program MVP program masterminded by Ajoy Krishnamoorthy, brainchild from Microsoft who now heads Cloud Platform division at Acumatica honored 9 partners for being valuable asset to their partner program, here is link to Acumatica MVP's

Acumatica Labs Opens in Montreal, Canada
The creation of Acumatica Labs in Montreal was also announced today. Acumatica Labs will perform rigorous testing and integration procedures together with leading OEM's and ISVs, leading to faster and smoother ERP implementations on-site with customers.  

Glimpse of Ver 7.0 User Interface changes, and few other vertical integration's will make next year summit even more interesting in Sunny California, Feb 2017.

Icing on the Cake
The End Note was delivered by former Navy Seal, CEO and Co-Founder of Perfect Fitness, author of "Be Unstoppable", Alden Mills. He was an inspiring speaker who pumped up the audience to join Navy SEAL or Fight like one in the ERP space, his experience, his Guts and his speech in relation to Acumatica Partners was worth listening to wrap our 2 Day Summit and head into 3 day training program.


Few pics from the event.
Hyatt Regency Cypress 
 Acumatica ISV booth's

MVP Awards



Article Credit - Acumatica PR Newswire and Acumatica website.
Photo Credit - InfoSourcing Inc/CloudERP2020.com.
Disclosure - I paid for my own tickets and I'm Acumatica Silver Certified Partner from Northern Virginia




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