Roskill, who came from Microsoft in March, spent his first 10 years at the giant software company in developer tools. He found that while developers wanted to license Acumatica as a platform. "We didn't have the packaging the pricing or licensing structure and we didn't have the program with the proper support," Roskill says. The platform is built on the standard Microsoft stack. The company pitches the xRP's object-oriented environment as enabling developers to dramatically reduce the amount of time needed to author applications. Among products already developed on the platform is the Jams manufacturing package from JAAS systems; a replatformed ERP package for government contractors from Jamis; along with the Acumatica service management suite from M5
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With its CEO saying Acumatica hopes to offer a development platform for ERP applications, the way Salesforce.com has done with CRM, the cloud company this week launched Acumatica Cloud xRP Platform. Companies will be able to develop application with Acumatica as the accounting engine. Products will bear the "powered by Acumatica" tag. Products developed this way "will appear in our catalog. The VAR network will know of their existence," says CEO Jon Roskill.
