My notes from the Day 1 Keynote
Getting ready to start the Day 2 Keynote #AcumaticaSummit
Congrats Team 4 for winning the Hackathon #AcumaticaSummit
Customer Stories #AcumaticaSummit
Covering the Day 1 Takeaways #AcumaticaSummit
We’ll hear a lot more about AI today #AcumaticaSummit
11 teams (actually I think it was 14 teams) with over 100 participants at the Hackathon. 7 teams had an AI theme #AcumaticaSummit
Our plan for today’s keynote #AcumaticaSummit
2024 was a pivotal year for Acumatica because they shifted how they build and ship product #AcumaticaSummit
New program called Acumatica Labs formalizes prototyping features with customers and that was a big shift in 2024 #AcumaticaSummit
The product team did dozens of customer visits in 2024 #AcumaticaSummit
Visit to G2S. Helped with PaceJet integration and piloting Order Orchestration #AcumaticaSummit
Also visited Freeland #AcumaticaSummit
APS is critical for Fabuwood #AcumaticaSummit
Driving forces in the market #AcumaticaSummit
Driving forces in the market #AcumaticaSummit
The product strategy core beliefs #AcumaticaSummit
Building functionality WITH customers and partners is key for Acumatica #AcumaticaSummit
Miten comes up to talk about their AI-first approach #AcumaticaSummit
Miten comes up to talk about their AI-first approach #AcumaticaSummit
“AI is going to transform the way that we do business”. I wonder what Acumatica is using on the backend to handle the computer in the Acumatica Cloud #AcumaticaSummit
Went through 8 cards of examples that AI can help with #AcumaticaSummit
The Acumatica AI/ML Architecture #AcumaticaSummit
AI studio will help to automate workflows #AcumaticaSummit
AI is only as good as the data #AcumaticaSummit
You can even bring in your own native AI services #AcumaticaSummit
Jeff Smits (CIO) comes on to talk about the infrastructure that enables all of this AI stuff #AcumaticaSummit
AI helps them to know the optimal time of day to run certain workloads #AcumaticaSummit
How do YOU use Acumatica and how does it compare to typical usage #AcumaticaSummit
Security isn’t just a feature, but a fundamental part of the architecture #AcumaticaSummit
“We will NOT expose your business data to Public LLMs” #AcumaticaSummit
Redundancy, load balancing, etc. #AcumaticaSummit
New thing that minimizes maintenance windows #AcumaticaSummit
Industry leading security measures, etc. #AcumaticaSummit
Ali is back #AcumaticaSummit
Highlighting the Shopify partnership #AcumaticaSummit
Highlighting the Shopify partnership #AcumaticaSummit
Carla talks about what Shopify does, has been at Shopify for over a decade #AcumaticaSummit
Acumatica was the first ERP to adopt Shopify B2B #AcumaticaSummit
According to Carla, the way that Acumatica approached the connector sets them apart from their peers #AcumaticaSummit
Now for 2025 R1 demos. Yay! #AcumaticaSummit
Kelly to talk about the Distribution Edition #AcumaticaSummit
Managing different catalogs of pricing #AcumaticaSummit
Shopify website #AcumaticaSummit
$1,500 for consumers, but $1,200 when logged in as wholesale distributors #AcumaticaSummit
$1,500 for consumers, but $1,200 when logged in as wholesale distributors #AcumaticaSummit
All managed in the regular Sales Prices screen #AcumaticaSummit
Selling unique products #AcumaticaSummit
Battery Condition and Warranty Expiration Date are Attributes #AcumaticaSummit
Now Debbie to talk about Manufacturing #AcumaticaSummit
The skills that a company needs are evolving. They need to understand digital technologies #AcumaticaSummit
Key factors driving evolution #AcumaticaSummit
We want to build a product that you really love to use #AcumaticaSummit
Helping to find material shortages #AcumaticaSummit
Production Orders by Build Capacity is a new screen #AcumaticaSummit
There are new scheduling views #AcumaticaSummit
Here’s one of the new ones, a Work Center Planned Utilization dashboard #AcumaticaSummit
Production Schedule Board looks really nice in the Modern UI #AcumaticaSummit
Production Schedule Board looks really nice in the Modern UI #AcumaticaSummit
What they’re working on now, including an APS engine that is being built from the ground up #AcumaticaSummit
Joel “mustache” Hoffman takes the stage to talk about the Construction Edition #AcumaticaSummit
Lots of transactions going through the Acumatica Cloud #AcumaticaSummit
2025R1 introduced enhancements to ProFormas #AcumaticaSummit
Someone from JobPlanner and someone from Stack take the stage, announcing new partnerships with Acumatica #AcumaticaSummit
What they’re working on in the Construction Edition #AcumaticaSummit
Now Jeremy Larsen to talk about Professional Services Edition #AcumaticaSummit
Professional Services market outlook and trends #AcumaticaSummit
IT Savvy is a customer #AcumaticaSummit
They were recently acquired by Xerox #AcumaticaSummit
Lots of needs in Professional Services #AcumaticaSummit
The center of things is the Project Hub #AcumaticaSummit
All rolls up into a Dashboard #AcumaticaSummit
What they’re working on now #AcumaticaSummit
ProjectManager is included in Professional Services Edition #AcumaticaSummit
ProjectManager is included in Professional Services Edition #AcumaticaSummit
Ali back to highlight 2025R1 new features #AcumaticaSummit
The beta is available today #AcumaticaSummit
Now for customer awards #AcumaticaSummit
Congrats to these 4 customers and thank you for helping to build the Acumatica product #AcumaticaSummit
Doug Johnson back on stage #AcumaticaSummit
Someone in the audience just won casino chips #AcumaticaSummit
AI studio demo #AcumaticaSummit
Alaska Indoor Sports is using anomaly detection already #AcumaticaSummit
Hey, I know Doug McBride!!! #AcumaticaSummit
New Customer Portal #AcumaticaSummit
New Customer Portal #AcumaticaSummit
New Customer Portal #AcumaticaSummit
New Customer Portal #AcumaticaSummit
Feeds into a Dashboard. Hey, I built that Dashboard! #AcumaticaSummit
Drilling down #AcumaticaSummit
Go talk to Doug McBride #AcumaticaSummit
Go talk to Doug McBride #AcumaticaSummit
Phew, Mik C got onstage. I was getting worried that we wouldn’t see him #AcumaticaSummit
AI Automation #AcumaticaSummit
Generate Closure Notes button creates a much better summary than the initial one sentence #AcumaticaSummit
Generate Closure Notes button creates a much better summary than the initial one sentence #AcumaticaSummit
AI Prompt Editor screen #AcumaticaSummit
Update Instructions tab is how you decide what to do with the results from the LLM #AcumaticaSummit
More complicated example #AcumaticaSummit
Showing a working example of AI Studio. This is really cool!!!! #AcumaticaSummit
Thank you Mik! #AcumaticaSummit
Now Ali to wrap things up #AcumaticaSummit
Celebration Party will be tonight #AcumaticaSummit
Closing Reception tomorrow #AcumaticaSummit