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Acumatica Summit 2018 Day 1 Keynote (Nashville, TN)

January 29, 2018 by Tim Rodman

Acumatica Summit 2018 took place in Nashville, Tennessee. Day 1 Keynote featured Concur Integration, 4,000 Customers, New Vertical Editions, Cloud Performance, New 2018 R1 Features, and Microsoft Flow. Here are my notes.

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Over 1,100 people here #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/aN18tPRhps

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

The tech side of what Acumatica has accomplished in the last 10 years #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/7Xb0iXjsuS

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Rather than taking a closed approach like their competitors, Acumatica has embraced "open" #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/dY1hKLC5t3

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

The 2017 recap, including the important Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financials, expecting to see full Cloud ERP MQ later this year #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/bDV4qshnwp

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

144% revenue growth #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/H3obQn0WYF

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Acumatica gets about a phone call each week from an interested ISV. Now over over 130 ISVs. #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/tv4htj3hJH

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Therr are now over 4,000 customers (missed the slide) #AcumaticaSummit

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Acumatica 2017R2 overview, including additions to the mobile framework #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/lNDgqVSDp6

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

New Acumatica Field Service features #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/pEHQ6wOBoF

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

OFSi is using Acumatica Field Services Edition, says it's clean and simple, including integrations with robotic arms #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/xS68pUcaju

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Commerce Edition #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/xjWBcUl8qf

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Customer xByte uses the Commerce Edition and would recommend it to anyone #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/kquG5Wnyut

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Manufacturing Edition #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/9I0XBujL9H

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Customer FSC uses Acumatica Manufacturing Edition and Scanco WMS, moved off a Sage ERP product #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/1kJs0HEkSq

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

xByte and Ryan Brown win customer of the year, looking to take automation to the next level in 2018 #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/ADDaPsyB5n

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Brand new Construction Edition, only 3 weeks old #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/SKmTnvQUe1

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Acumatica Construction Edition was at World of Concrete with "squash your server" booth #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/Gd4te0uUAN

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

I think the important thing about all of these "editions" is that they are all just sales SKUs. There is only one product platform behind-the-scenes. #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/PG30bC5gZB

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Numbers about the Acumatica Cloud's ability to scale #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/qOM72RL7Wj

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Screenshot of Acumatica SaaS command center #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/yngcyytAtc

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

The Acumatica SaaS environment is audited and is compliant #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/2333amhJEe

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Acumatica customers in Houston stayed up-and-running, even when Houston was under water #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/a2kcdkGTZ8

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Five 9s of uptime delivered in 2017 #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/0SfSaDpFky

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Number of ransomware isses that Acumatica had in 2017 #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/AII1bon7WV

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Hats off to the support team #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/JZCC7Gwq1s

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Probably the best Net Promotor Score in the industry #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/Xwhemcudwp

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

This is a big year for ERP investment #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/pt2O2XaPZ3

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Mexico City office just opened, primarily a development office at this point #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/iCcLCZKMVr

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Ali Jani now Chief Product Officer #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/HPDrZURsia

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Acumatica 2018R1 features coming. Now for the fun stuff. #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/rz1HJ1qgaq

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

New inventory features, including customers doing 25,000 transactions per hour #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/aSSjPrdWlk

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

New CRM features #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/wKnUMGswUW

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

New Field Service features #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/DJJFe6hKAH

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Navigating, configuring, and collapsing the recently updated user interface #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/vhoN5AvCxe

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Searching across menu items, help articles, file attachments, and transactions for "invoice" #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/4v3GK3N9MU

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

More modern KPIs in 2018 #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/bbwzDuarUm

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Dashboards in 2018 now accept parameters which is BIG #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/vH6S28hWZj

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

2018 Dashboards can also accept on-the-fly filters rather than having to use Shared filters #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/c1XCA35CJV

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Applied filters to a Generic Inquiry are now more obvious in 2018 #AcumaticaSummit. For more https://t.co/p7a95GjSNk pic.twitter.com/hsQybB8PFg

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Adding a Dashboard to the mobile app is now as simple as checking a box, parameters show up too #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/RSSxUCtx8I

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Improved Mobile UI seen with Expense Receipts #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/N6m537XQN8

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Doug Johnson VP Product Management about to demo Projects #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/eXiVllWoBe

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

About to look at Product Change Orders #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/irhKHDOjIl

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Some Project Change Order screenshots #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/nILFxwha52

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

External change request for both cost and revenue, that's really good margin for this consultant #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/ZF2ib1UBXX

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

You don't have to use Allocations anymore. Just click to go to Pro Forma Invoice, including ability to easily write-off or postpone a charge with a drop down #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/CVjOVzQqoP

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

About to see a retail iPad example #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/a7ZkHLUS6o

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

This is using Fusion RMS. No sync, all real-time #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/35TLOQZbyP

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Nice touch buttons, including email or print receipt #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/Sb1ydIrjmh

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Easy to refund, including requiring password from manager #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/lIAAJlA5uK

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

In the background, the invoice was created real-time and very fast #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/CK15YvvnjN

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Now there is only one invoice screen instead of two. Nice! #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/IyQLdZutAH

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Now talking APIs with @ajoyk #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/KmRvM59ODS

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

New API functionality in 2018 #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/xSPgUBa4zy

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Acumatica has joined the Open API Initiative. Time to go after "walled garden" software companies like Yardi 🙂 #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/erfXErIMpZ

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

New integration partnerships #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/IYpK536kAN

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Smartsheet integration demo #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/6xwxbwJ37g

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Sync project tasks to Smartsheet #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/XxIC9wdhj9

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

The Completed Percentage syncs back to Acumatica from Smartsheet #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/lsoIC5HGdE

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Time for Concur integration demo with Chris from Concur #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/gWCeZ7WsrM

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Concur marries the expense receipt to the credit card bill #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/sawFozezGM

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Going into Concur #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/4CcVmusA7x

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

After clicking the Approve button #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/qExa3BpPHO

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Logging into Acumatica, you can see the GL entry created automatically. Notice Nuvola Networks is the partner on this #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/pIx8bUpBw5

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Integration with Microsoft Flow coming, including some default Flows! #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/noL0Lgaxs4

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Flow can create Acumatica records from an email automatically like for support cases here #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/JgK650jzki

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

A growing connected platform #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/WzqnPYXldF

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

Wrapping up Day 1. I always like how they spend so much keynote time on substantive demos #AcumaticaSummit pic.twitter.com/YBhd0NLqvj

— Tim Rodman (@TimRodman) January 29, 2018

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