Community Summit NA

John Siefert

Community Summit Legends

Microsoft’s Terry Heley blog post, July 2021

Microsoft’s Mike Morton LinkedIn statement, October 2022

Cavallo’s Mike Biwer blog post, October 2022

David Musgrave’s blog post, October 2022

ERP Software Blog post, October 2022

MSDW report on Summit kerfuffle, October 2022

 

Tweets from the week that was in Orlando:

 

Sage blog says Dynamics GP users face ‘urgent’ product transition

Forrester analysis indicates enterprise software is ‘recession-proof’

Salesforce shares drop…in a software slowdown

Intuit announces strong financial results

Lawsuit accuses Oracle of tracking 5 billion people 

 

John Siefert:  LinkedIn / Twitter 

The Acceleration Economy 

Cloud Wars Expo 

Community Summit NA

Legends of Summit / Bob Evans / Wayne Sadin

 

 

Microsoft Inspire Partner Awards 2022

Sage acquires Lockstep

Avalara to be acquired by Vista Partners / NYSE: AVLR

Refresh: Avalara goes public (June 2018)

 

Darcy’s mid-September 2022 event fav: Acu-Connect 2022 w/ John Case Keynote

Bob’s mid-September 2022 event fav: DynamicsCon LIVE 2022

 

Shawn Slavin:  LinkedIn / Twitter / Information Technology Alliance (ITA)

ITA Meetings Calendar: https://www.italliance.com/events/meeting-calendar/

 

Cloud Wars Expo

Solve My ERP Problems

Acu-Connect 2022

Community Summit NA

Sage Transform

Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center

PowerGP Online Party at #SummitNA 2022

Microsoft names a new Chief Partner Officer

New Azure Data Conference debuting this December

Scott Hebert, CEO | SYSPRO USA

LinkedIn / Twitter (personal) / Twitter (corporate) / SYSPRO profile

https://us.syspro.com

Scott’s Top 5 ERP myths:

  1. My company is too small for an ERP
  2. An ERP should fit your existing processes
  3. ERP projects are owned by IT departments  
  4. An ERP will eliminate departmental silos
  5. It’s hard to get insight from ERP data

 

The Beachcomber | Mutt Lynch’s

Joe Satriani | Chickenfoot

Dawn Gorey | Gavin Verreyne

 

Many thanks to Todd Perlman for connecting us with Scott!

 

 

ITA Spring 2022 Collaborative – Denver, CO

90 Minds’ “Meeting of the Minds” 2022 – Newport Beach, CA

     Wayne SchulzLinkedIn / Twitter / “Schulz Says” Newsletter

 

Julian SchrenzelLinkedIn / Twitter / DyNexus website

White Center, WA taco trucks (best of, via Yelp)

Improv Alive CEO

Ed Kless

 

 

 

 

 

Our Top Ten Episodes (thus far):

  1. Episode #148Epicor’s Steve Murphy and Make, Move, Sell
  2. Episode #78Pop Quiz and 90 Minds Biz (w/ Eric Alexander)
  3. Episode #79API Limitations and NAV Machinations (w/ Mark Rhodes)
  4. Episode #76Construction Introduction and Newsworthy Tweets (w/ Acumatica’s Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
  5. Episode #123DynamicsCon, acuCONNECT 2020, and a Little Perspective (w/ Molly Fuchsel & Liz Hallen; Patty Benitez & Liz Anderson)
  6. Episode #101Revolutionary Praise and Convention Math (w/ Peter Wolf & Wayne Schulz)
  7. Episode #95Acumatica Summit 2019 (Part 1)
  8. Episode #87Departing CEOs and Azure-ish Apps (w/ Wayne Schulz & Rod O’Connor)
  9. Episode #82SQL Secrets and Remembering Brooke (w/ Kerry Hataley)
  10. Episode #80Conference Comebacks and Grow Getters (w/ Epicor’s Scott Hays)

 

Bob Evans: 

LinkedIn / Twitter / Cloud Wars Expo / Acceleration Economy

Fulton Hall

John Siefert

 

Recent Mergers & Acquisitions:

Net@Work acquires ProServe Solutions

Velosio acquires Silverware, obtaining Agribusiness focus

SWK acquires Acumatica practice

Microsoft acquires Minit

Hy-tek Holdings acquires FASCOR

Beyond Limits acquires Altec

 

Other Industry News:

James Phillips exits Microsoft to join Stripe

Acumatica hires new VP of Partner Strategy & Programs

New ‘Microsoft Journal’ product launch

Sage FY 21 Partner Awards

Boeing Cloud Contract Split

 

Directions NA 2022:

Official Event Site

Directions NA 2022  ‘mashup’ via Petras Butenas

Directions NA 2023 returning to Orlando next spring

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Murphy, Epicor CEO

Steve Murphy | LinkedIn

 

Epicor Home Page 

Epicor Insights 2022 event page

Follow Epicor onLinkedIn / Twitter

 

Cooper’s Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que | Llano, TX

Bill Wilson, SVP Product Development at Epicor