As the only Gold Partner in Africa, Palladium Business Solutions has achieved the prestigious Acumatica Gold status for the fourth consecutive year. Additionally, the company also recently outclassed its global counterparts by winning the Acumatica International 'Partner of the Year' award.

Technology and data analytics are becoming increasingly necessary for businesses to remain competitive. Organisations are exploring more flexible, affordable and scalable solutions to help them manage their resources, assets and partner relationships.

Palladium Business Solutions managing director Stephen Corrigan says Acumatica is the future of ERP. "Cloud-based software applications allow executives to access important real-time information from anywhere and on any device are in high demand. Cloud ERP vendors like Acumatica are now offering cost-effective solutions to companies that may not have been able to afford the on-premise software.”

Acumatica not only recently won the prestigious PC Magazine Editor’s Choice Award: ‘The Best Enterprise-Class General Ledger Accounting Software of 2016’, but has also been recognised as the 2016 Innovator In Cloud Services Enablement by the IDC (International Data Corporation), the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets.

“They are already having a disruptive effect on the ERP market by offering affordable yet sophisticated, flexible, highly mobile, and easy-to-use applications," he says.

Built on the world’s best cloud and mobile technology, Acumatica delivers a suite of fully integrated business management applications such as financials, distribution, CRM and Project Accounting, and Deferred Revenue powered by a robust and flexible platform.

Corrigan says Acumatica has a new fresh approach in that it does not charge on a per-user basis, but rather one that is based on the number of system processors used. "This model has opened up a number of new markets in the form of professional services and project-based companies with the integrations of timesheets and the like."

Acumatica has the ability to be hosted on-premise or in the cloud offering flexibility for those not ready to be part of the cloud computing revolution. Sold on either a perpetual license or on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription basis, Acumatica offers companies the promise of reduced costs, while giving customers, suppliers, and employees alike a better all-encompassing user experience, greater functionality and more control over how the systems are used.

"If you have to dig for up-to-date information, it slows critical decision-making and impairs problem-solving capacity. Acumatica is the obvious choice, it can provide instant, anywhere access with real-time information," he concludes.