Acumatica

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Acumatica
Company type Privately held company
Industry Computer software
Founded2008;16 years ago (2008)
Founder
Successor EQT Partners   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Headquarters,
Key people
John Case (CEO) [1]
ProductsAcumatica Cloud ERP
Owner EQT Partners [2]
Number of employees
500+ [1]  (2021)
Website www.acumatica.com

Acumatica provides cloud and browser based enterprise resource planning software for small and medium-sized businesses. The company is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, in the Seattle metropolitan area. [3]

Contents

Acumatica has partnerships with BDO USA [4] and Shopify. [5]

History

The Acumatica ERP product was introduced in 2008 [6] followed a year later by on-premises and SaaS versions. [7]

In 2014, former Microsoft Vice President Jon Roskill became CEO [8] and the xRP cloud platform launched. [9]

Private-equity fund EQT Partners purchased Acumatica in 2019 [2] and a London office opened in 2021. [10]

Technology

Acumatica's ERP is built with its proprietary web-based xRP platform and can be licensed on-premises / in the cloud, or provided on a SaaS basis. [11] [12] [13]

The SaaS product runs on Amazon Web Services, [14] Azure [15] and SQL Azure. [11] Licensed software runs on Microsoft Windows Server / SQL Server and applications run as .NET managed code. [16]

Acquisitions

Funding

Recognition

2012Named a Top 100 Global Finalist by Red Herring [23]
#1 in the Top 20 Coolest Cloud Vendors by CRN [24]
2013Featured in CRN's 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors of the Cloud [25]
Finalist for the CODiE Awards Best Supply Chain Management Solution [26]
One of the top 50 Russian start-ups [27]
2014Gold Stevie Award [28]
CODiE Award for Best Supply Chain Management Solution [29]
2016CODiE Award for Best Supply Chain Management Solution [30]
2017 PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award for Best ERP Software [31]
CODiE Award for Best Cloud ERP Solution [30]
2018 Gartner's highest score for customer satisfaction [32]
CODiE Award Best Cloud ERP Solution [33]
CODiE Award Best Manufacturing Solution [33]
2019Finalist for Most Innovative Business at the IDEA Awards [34]
PC Magazine top ten Best Inventory Management Software [35]
2020CEO Jon Roskill winner Business Intelligence Group awards [36]
2021CODiE Award for Best ERP Solution [37]
Gartner Magic Quadrant niche player in Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises [38]

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