Cloud: the Next Generation
Winter 2019 Bob Scott’s 2019 VAR STARS Cloud: The Next Generation Sponsored by 2019 VAR Stars 2019 VAR Stars Cloud: The Next Generation Younger Business Leaders Push Cloud Migration he installed base of cloud financial software ing firm Crowe, has also seen the shift in attitudes than 18,000 NetSuite ERP customers when its Tis still low in the mid-market. But the con- about cloud computing. “Two or three years ago, first quarter ended on August 31, up 28 percent versation about moving to the cloud from we had clients who wouldn’t consider it. Now, they from more than 15,000 year earlier. on-premise applications has changed dramati- are going to end there,” Priller says. An impor- cally over the last two years. For most buyers tant part of the change is younger people mov- Organic Growth the question is not if they move to SaaS-based ing into decision-making positions, people for Logan Consulting has experienced growth applications, but when. whom newer technologies, especially the cloud at that fast pace. It grew to $18.5 million in rev- Even markets which have historically lagged and mobile, are part of their life experience. enue for VAR Stars up from $14.1 million, which in technology have accelerated their acceptance “They are used to it. It has been part of their it reported in its submission for Bob Scott’s Top of cloud-based applications. And this is particu- everyday life,” Priller says 100 VARs in the spring of 2018. Logan has not larly true of nonprofit organizations, according Increasing threats to data are probably an acquired any firms in that time.“It’s just organic to Jackie Tiso, CEO of Patterson, N.Y.-based equal motivator, in not more of a factor than the growth,” says CEO Jim Bertler, who leads the JMT Consulting, whose firm sells Sage Intacct generational change Priller says he has had sev- Chicago, Ill.-based firm that resells Acumatica and Abila from Community Brands into the NFP eral clients who suffered ransomware attacks in and Dynamics AX/GP and 365 Business Central.
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