Navigator, has been selected as a member of the Bob Scott’s VAR Stars for 2012, a group of 100 organizations honored for their accomplishments in the field of midmarket financial software
Members of the VAR Stars were selected based on factors such growth, industry leadership and recognition, and innovation. Selection is not based on revenue and those firms chosen represent a wide range of size and many different software publishers of accounting software.
“Each year, 100 VAR Stars are picked from the best organizations that market financial software. It is always an honor to recognize those who contribute to the development of our business,” Bob Scott said.
"We are thrilled and honored to accept this award," said Grant Fraser, president & CEO of Navigator. "As an exclusive SAP software partner, focused on the small-midsize enterprise market, we are confident in our ability to deliver the best of of SAP, on premise, on demand, and on device. We further pride and measure ourselves on our ability to make every customer a best run business."
About Bob Scott:
Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community via his email newsletters for 13 years. He has published this information via the “Bob Scott’s Insights” newsletter and website since 2009. He has covered this market for 21 years through print and electronic publications, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and has continued to address that market as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant since 2009.
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Plum Organics, a pioneer and leading provider of premium nutritious organic baby food, toddler, and kind snack food products. Plum Organics is best known for revolutionalizing the baby food category with the introduction of the squeezable pouch, a convenient, lightweight, BPA-free packaging solution. Recognized for their unique culinary-inspired recipes and a modern approach to family nutrition, Plum Organics, is the only brand that offers a complete line of organic products that ensure healthy eating from the highchair to the lunchbox. Plum Orgnics was recently named the Bay Area's #1 Fastest Growing Private Company" by the San Francisco Business Time.
The Project: At a Glance
Countries: U.S.
Users: 50
Solutions: SAP Business ByDesign, SPS Commerce
Integration Partner: Navigator
Services: SAP Cloud Consulting
Project Duration: 4 months
The Project: In Detail
SAP Business ByDesign was selected to support Plum Organics anticipated growth, provide a platform for Plum Organics to integrate key business processes and to improve processes with outsourced manufacturers. Specifically, this project enables integration with SPS Commerce; allowing Plum Organics to receive purchase orders and send out invoices to its customers. Additionally, processes were developed to support Plum Organics three different outsources manufacturing models.
The Delivery Team:
Navigator Business Solutions, the #1 Global Partner for SAP Business ByDesign presented the solution to Plum Organics, and were subsequently heavily involved in the overall 4-month implementation process. Highly experienced SAP team members served as the project managers on this implementation.
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WALLDORF, Germany - SAP today announced the second 2012 release of SAP Business ByDesign solution. The cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is moving to a querterly release cycle is scheduled for availability in 4 additional European countries, namely Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain. This announcement is on the heels of the latest news regarding SAP's largest customer win to do in New South Wales Department of Trade & Investment in Australia.
Additionally, a software development kit (SDK) for SAP Business ByDesign, will enable parters like Navigator (as they have been doing for years with SAP's on-premise SME solution, SAP Business One) to extend solution functionality and build one-off cases for customer-specific requirements. As part of this SDK, SAP will provide developers with various capabilities, including Web services, which will allow the newly created partner to exchange inforrmation with existing SAP or 3rd-party cloud apps. Reusable building blocks - so called templates - will enable partners, like Navigator, to create customer-specific add-ons must faster. Improved usability, included advanced documentation and examples, will help partners understand and start working with the SDK instantly - reducing the need for extensive training. More than 20 partners, with Navigator being one of the first, have already signed the contract to develop and sell integrated extensions to the SAP Business ByDesign suite.
In effort to increase customer interest in SAP Business ByDesign, SAP will also be providing a localization kit to help them fulfill specific local requirements.
Co-innovation with partners like Navigator is a key part of the design process of SAP's cloud solutions. So, what will these changes mean for you - the prospective & current customers of SAP Business ByDesign?
- Additional Services, manufacturing (including lean/Kanban) and distribution functionality: Service industry enhancements, including improved ability to combine both products and services on projects, which links material in sales order to project tasks. Through this extended functionality, SAP Business ByDesign will now be supporting service industries outside ofht eh professional services core. The extended ability to sell-service contracts supporting billing, service level agreements, and executive and escalations are intended to provide greater support for managed services agreements common in IT, media, marketing and other consulting services. Other enhancements for manufacturing and distribution include support for current and future customers that manage and track onsite and in-house repairs.
- Mobile extensibility: SAP now enables users to customize the view for processes within SAP Business ByDesign on their preferred mobile devices. This will further extend the existing standard support for over 15 mobile scenarious, included time and expense, customer relationship management (CRM) and reporting.
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GREENSBORO, NC - As a rapidly growing outdoor & water recreation equipment manufacturer and distributor, Legacy Paddlesports partnered with Navigator Business Solutions to evaluate, select and fully implement SAP Business One. This solution will serve as the nerve center of their quickly expanding business.
Legacy Paddlesports, situated amongst the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina serves as a holding company for several popular, kayak brands, namely Native Watercraft, LiquidLogic, and Heritage Kayaks. Their variety of kayaks are specifically engineering for a vast range of kayaking activities such as white-water kayaking, fishing, sight-seeing, and everyday exercise.
"We discovered SAP Business One late in our evaluation process," said Bill Medlin, President & CEO of Legacy Paddlesports. "We were nearly at contract signing with a different software company when we were approached by Navigator, recommending that we evaluate SAP Business One. What we found was core, out-of-the-box functionality that Legacy Paddlesports management never imagined possible; all at a price that was well within our budget. This coupled with the brand recognition of SAP helped us realize that we were making a sound investment in a solution that would scale with us as we grow for the very forseeable future."
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Salt Lake City - March 30, 2012 - Navigator today announced it is a 2012 SAP Pinnacle award finalist. SAP Pinnacle awards are presented annually to leading SAP partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP, and driving customer success. Finalists and winners were selected based on over 150 nominations in 22 categories received from partners and SAP employees.
"We are excited to be recognized among the top partners of SAP," said Grant Fraser, president & CEO of Navigator. "We are busy at work continuing on our mission to make every customer a best-run business. What's even more exciting is seeing the vast number of small-midsize companies recognize and subsequently experience the incredible benefits of world-class best business practices available within SAP's small-midsize enterprise solutions.
The SAP Pinnacle Awards recognize the leading SAP partners across a wide variety of categories, including resellers, OEMs, sustainability, technology, support, services, and outsourcing. They underscore SAP's commitment to a sound ecosystem strategy, which SAP recognizes as a key driver in delivering unmatched value to customers enabling SAP [and Navigator] to reach its business goals.
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Hanover, Germany - March 6, 2012 - SAP has created a multi-tenant version of its
Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite, which will be sold exclusively through partners as the company is expected to announce Tuesday during the Cebit conference in Hannover, Germany.
Multi-tenancy is a software architecture commonly used by SaaS (software as a service) vendors, wherein multiple customers share the same instance of an application, but with their corporate data locked away from each other. This allows for operational cost savings over traditional hosting, and provides the ability to apply general product upgrades to many customers at once.
"It's great to see that SAP realizes that multi-tenancy is an important part of a cloud solution," said analyst Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research. "True multi-tenancy gives customers the lowest-cost delivery model and the quickest way to consume innovation."
SAP partners, like Navigator, have already been selling Business One in
hosted form. Last year, SAP instituted a policy change that made it easier for those companies to offer hosted Business One via subscription pricing. SAP is encouraging partners to sell Business One OnDemand by subscription as well, according to a statement.
The engineering work on the multi-tenant version is complete, and it will become available from partners in the second quarter, according to SAP spokeswoman Angelika Pfahler. It will initially be offered in 18 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Spain and Switzerland.
Only SAP-certified hosting partners, like Navigator, will be able to offer the application directly, although resellers that lack such qualifications can subcontract with a certified company, SAP said.
Business One will continue to be available through traditional hosting and in on-premises form, under perpetual license agreements.
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Salt Lake City - February 7, 2012 - Navigator announced today their partnership with AlliGACOM, a leading supply chain management solution provider with a cloud-based EDI integration environment for SAP's small-midize business management solutions. This partnership will enable those current and future Navigator/SAP customers access to world-class EDI functionality fully integrated within their specific instances of SAP Business One and SAP Business ByDesign - ultimately enableing them to do more business faster and more efficiently.
"ALLiGACOM is an industry-leading SAP software solution provider, known around the world for their extensive work with EDI inegration," said Curtis Fry, VP of Technology for Navigator. "We are excited by this partnership, and are extremely cofident that this partnership will further enable SAP's world-class software to appeal to even more companies seeking real-time business management software, paid with proven EDI functionality - all integrated into one world-class SAP application - that is ideal for small-midsize businesses all across America.
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