1. Provider Simplifies ERP in the Cloud
“Thanks to Windows Azure automated replication with multiple redundant copies of data to multiple physical servers, Acumatica is able to ensure high availability and business continuity for its customers.” – Ali Jani, VP of Services and Product Management, Acumatica
WINDOWS AZURE ISV:
Acumatica
WEBSITE:
LOCATION: Kirkland, Washington, United States
ORG SIZE: 100 employees
INDUSTRY: Software development
WINDOWS AZURE ISV PROFILE:
Founded in 2007, Acumatica has a mission to make its small and midsize business customers more competitive with enterprise resource planning tools that can be deployed through a private or public cloud.
SITUATION:
Acumatica set out to create an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and midsize (SMB) companies that would reduce the complexities of this mission-critical application and make it available as a cloud service. It sought to make sure that customers could choose options including deployment, payment, data storage, and data access—and to simplify the ERP experience.
SOLUTION:
The company decided that Windows Azure was an ideal, cost-effective solution that would offer high value to customers. The Acumatica ERP solution has been optimized using Windows Azure Cloud Services since November Acumatica uses Windows Azure SQL Database to store customer data in a structured manner with a multitenant design. Customers can manage their own customizations and schedule updates. Unstructured data—such as attachments, receipts, and documentation—is stored using more cost-effective Windows Azure Blob services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer highlighted Acumatica as a key cloud partner in a 2010 speech.
BENEFITS:
Acumatica uses the Windows Azure array of controls to meet the needs of a diverse customer base with vastly differing requirements. Thanks to Windows Azure, Acumatica is able to:
Offer customers a centralized management and monitoring solution.
Service worldwide customers with geographically dispersed data centers.
Offer better confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer data.
Enjoy a highly efficient environment for creating sandboxes and managing customer migrations from version to version.
Provision new instances easily and give new customers access within minutes, which drives rapid time-to-productivity for customers.
Scale performance quickly as customer demands change.
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