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Acumatica Summit 2019, Houston Jan 26th to Feb 1st 2019

By Harsha Sarjapur

Acumatica Summit 2019 was filled with fun, excitement and dreams. 

At InfoSourcing, we are scaling to new heights and expanding consulting business unlike any other year in the past while building on our new verticals and industry knowledge by ways of creating new plugins and extensions for Acumatica platform using xRP.
Acumatica has helped us in scaling our consulting business in the cloud to reach out to variety of partners and ISVs.

Our customers are happy with Acumatica as we can see year-on-year their profitability increasing, ability to serve more customers by doing more with automated features. We are excited to see the improvements in 2019 R1 and what the future holds for our customers, partners and users.

Our customers overall satisfaction is evident in their noticeably year on year increase in profitability. They are able to serve their customers better by utilizing an array of automated features available within Acumatica and its extensions. We are excited to see the improvements in 2019 R1 and the
potential it holds for our customers, partners and users.

At the Summit 

MobiPunch, Hackathon Event

InfoSourcing teamed up with JAAS developers for Hackathon 2019 as a "Team Beta". We designed and developed "MobiPunch" a punch in/out time tracking module allows mobile users to punch in and out of their facility with GPS enabled geo tracking. 
This is ideally for mobile and remote workers, shop floor or production jobs allowing managers to view all their employees checking in and out of the facility and keeping track of time and resources.
MobiPunch, can be extended to other modules and extensions developed by other ISVs such as JAMS Manufacturing plugin or PrintShop Production Jobs plugin and beyond. With Geo fencing capabilities you can automate time card activities and even extend this role to do loyalty program.

The Hackathon was a fun and innovative event with 8 teams participating and building some very interesting projects, and 3 teams made the final cut. We did not win but nonetheless built a prototype based on an idea with practical use of the application and had a blast creating it.
For more information on this project, visit GitHub 

MVP Awards


Acumatica kicked off the event with it’s MVP Awards Program. This program encourages developers, professionals and users across the globe to participate with Acumatica’s Developer Network Community in sharing their experiences in form of blogs, GitHub projects, forums, suggestions and feedbacks, allowing the ecosystem to grow allowing customers, partners and vendors to scale using complete solution.

We were honored to receive the prestigious award for the 4th consecutive year since 2016.

InfoSourcing has been contributing to Acumatica's growing community year after year by attending all summits, hackathons, forum participation, getting trained, blogging, providing product suggestions, feedbacks, focus groups and helping the community.
Thank you all those who voted for us to receive this award and we look forward to many more.

Summit Keynote - Day 1 & 2


Summit 2019 started with Jon Roskill, the who of Acumatica, briefing about the growth of Acumatica Cloud ERP and reaching a height of 5,200+ customer in 2019. Aa record number of 1,200+ addition of new customers have got on since from the 2017-18 summit.
This year’s summit also had a record number of attendees, close to 1,500+. Acumatica is surely scaling and not surprisingly the next Summit for 2020 is aptly scheduled to be in Las Vegas.
InfoSourcing has been tweeting the keynote session day 1 and 2, minute to minute updates along with Tim Rodman (fastest tweeter) you can review our tweets for more updates.
Tim Rodman's Tweets

Day 2 keynote session was more spectacular as it was packed with product demo's, future emerging technologies, Alexa business skills integration, drone pick-pack and ship and many more demonstrations.
Day 2 ended with Houston celebrity Mike Massimino, NASA astronaut keynote speaker, fabulous journey into his life, his failure and how he achieved his success after 3 failed attempts at his astronaut dream, as he says "Dream BIG" !.


I will leave you guys with improvements in 2018 R2 and whole list of new features, enhancements and improvements in newer version 2019 R1.

2018 R2 

1. Pop up notes now available on SO, SI, and Inventory screens
2. Secure Business date
3. System monitoring tools to administer the system
4. UDF - user defined fields on most screens is now available
5. Generic Inquiry now has capabilities to export to report
6. Centralized period management
7. Shipping module is inclusive of  Acumatica, they also added Stamps.com and other Ship engine integrations Starship, Shipstation and others

2019 R1

1. Visual appearance, change the style of your website at branch level, useful to distinguish between UAT and Production websites
2. Improvements in UDF's, now you can add UDF to customization manager so you can move to other instances
3. Generic Inquiries can now be saved to workspaces
4. Generic Inquiries now allows Side panel width to be scaled for real estate
5. Visual cues, most important visual experience feature allows to colorize your data views
6. GI - export to spreadsheet along with parameters sheet
7. Filters are moved to top in Pivot table
8. GI & Pivot - allows us to show zero and null values
9. Dashboard - add them to content packs and distribute across customers
10. Business events are enhanced to loop <foreach> to list all order details
11. Notification templates can now allow reports to be attached
12. Import scenarios can now use Generic Inquiries as data providers
13. Email processing - associate business acct
14. Link to entity - notification templates
15. Commerce Enabled ERP - for SO, Shipment and Invoice - balance write off - Enable Write-offs
16. Enhanced Document Management - add files and link them in documents (new interface for attaching files)
17. Users - Single sign on (platform feature)
18. New feature for periods - consolidated calendar
19. Reconciliation tools for control accounts
20. Accept Payment with new credit card on the portal and many more in my other blog posts, coming soon ...

Sky is not the limit, let's fly high, into the space ... We are excited to be part of Acumatica and look forward for the journey and beyond.


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