Cegid, which makes retail and ERP software, has published “Forward 2026” strategic plan this month. Among the goals are double revenue to roughly $1.36 billion by 2026.

Under its first five-year plan, the company double revenue and is forecasting 2021 revenue will be approximately $662 million, 66 percent generated from cloud sales. Along with selling 100-percent cloud products, Cegid plans to develop its own applications which will comprise 80-percent of revenue in four years. It will remain focused on Finance, Human Resources, CPAs, Retail and entrepreneurial sectors-and t top target becoming one of the top three players in each market. Cegid’s CEO Pascal Houillon was CEO of Sage North America from January 2011 through May 2011. The company plans to pursue international growth and to grow via acquiring other companies or products. Its international markets include Spain, Portugal, Germany, Benelux, Denmark and United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

 Bam Boom Cloud, which has offices in the United Kingdom and the United States, has been named the Microsoft’s Partner of the Year for Dynamics 365 Business Central. Based in Liberty Hill, Texas, the firm was one of many winners and finalists for top partners named in several categories by Microsoft in advance of its virtual Inspire 2022 conference next month.

Bam Boom was No. 45 on Bob Scott’s Insights Top 100 VARs for 2022 with $18 million in revenue. Visionet Systems, based in Cranbury, N.J., was Partner of the Year for Dynamics 365 Commerce. Accounting firm RSM US  was a Partner of the Year in the nonprofit industry category. Finalists for 365 BC were Cosmo Consult and Western Computer—MBS. Hitachi Solutions America was Partner of the year for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and Intelligent Order Management with mcaConnect, based in Denver, Colo., among the finalists in that category. Other finalists in the top partner selection for business applications included RSM US and HSO for Dynamics 365 Finance and RSM US for Government.The rest of the business applications winners were largely the global firms: Accenture/Avanade for Dynamics 365 Customer Service & Field Service; KPMG International for Dynamics 365 Finance and for Dynamics 365 Customer Insights & Marketing; Ernst & Young for Dynamics 365 Sales; Ernst & Young Brasil for Power Automate; France-based Sogeti, part of Capgemini for Power Apps; and Wipro Technologies of Indiana for Power BI

Deltek will hold its customer conference in-person this year. Returning to the format, the conference, formerly known as Deltek Insight, will now be called Deltek ProjectCon, the company said this month.

The event is scheduled for November 15 through 18 at Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. Chief marketing officer  Perry Hardt said the new name is designed to the status of is customers as a community of project-based professionals. As usual, the conference will feature updates on Deltek products and a vendor expo “industry insights from peers and luminaries, and inspiration from guest speakers,” he said. The company will also recognize its Most Valuable Project Awards Winners

ComputerWorks NFP Solutions topped the AccuFund channel again in 2021. The nonprofit software company this month named the Ontario, Calif.-based firm Volume Sales Leader Overall and New Site Sales Leader from VAR Leads.

ComputerWorks has won the top award several times. EMK of Export, Pa., received the award for Volume Leader Government Sector Sales while NFP Solutions, baed in Winchester, Ohio,  won as Representative Payee Volume Sales Leader and Volume Sales Leader and Anywhere Online Sales Leader; Other awards went to Prime Mountainas Volume Leader in Add-On Sales and Waypoints of Newberry, Fla. for Support Excellence.

One of the hot trends of the last few years is the Gender Reveal party.  Someone asked my opinion.

“Gender reveal? That’s hardly new. We have had guys running around in raincoats doing that for years. Just not my style.” … Inflation is taking a toll on products of all kinds. The manufacturer of “20 Mule Team Borax” has been forced to reduce the product to 17 mules.  … I have decided that the purpose of blister packs is to make you prove you really want to take the pills you have. …. When they pulled out of the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Russian soldiers are said to have left behind 100 liters of high-quality vodka. Apparently, they thought it might to prove a practical substitute for fissionable material in powering the plant. … Somebody asked me how much I paid to fill up my gasoline tank the last time. “I think it was three cents a gallon higher when I finished than when I started,” I said. … A local van had large lettering advertising the “Racoon Guy”.  I thought maybe he was a feature in a carnival sideshow. But now, he was just an animal control expert.  Actually, he did have rather short noise and beady eyes. …  The latest in the saurian franchise is Jurassic World Dominion. If there’s a sequel, we’ll probably find the dinosaurs are getting a bit long in the tooth. There are some reports the next victims of tyrannosaur will actually be pureed meat disguised by Halloween costume and makeup specialists so he won’t have to gum his food. That will probably be similar to the next in final editions of Top Gun so that 10 years from now, the currently 59-year-old superstar Tom Cruise, will be carrying a Hurry-cane and have to have a handicapped access ramps for the fighter jet. Of course, he will be probably be assisted by lower-level members of the Church of Scientology.

 What the public didn’t know in the well-publicized verdict in the trial of Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard, there was an initial ballot in which the seven jury members registered their real feelings.

Two were for Depp; two for Heard and three didn’t care anymore. … In the last week, England’s Queen Elizabeth II celebrated 70 years on the throne, her Platinum Jubilee. What can you give the woman who has, well the crown jewels; a few palaces? I thought coupons for trading in Prince Andrew for a new model might be welcome. Or we could buy her a nice set of platinum dinnerware. … A woman recently was the recipient of an ear made by 3D printer. I asked someone if that involved dot matrix or laser? The break-through will revolutionized the childhood game of “I have your nose” to “I made you a new nose.” … Dr. Mahmet Oz was just declared the winner of the highly contested Republican senatorial primary in Pennsylvanian. If Oz is elected, he will likely become a key spokesman for the GOPs plan for healthcare reform. He will a stalwart champion of eye of newt, bleach and exorcism as major tools in the fight against contagious diseases. He will also propose that discounts for healthcare with be available as coupons in packaged meals at Mcdonald’s and other fast food outlets.

I just filled up my car’s gasoline tank. I not only had to pay an arm and a leg for it, I had to have a co-signer for the loan I needed to finish the purchase.

… There are many television advertisements of guaranteed life insurance. I told a friend I’ve always had guaranteed life insurance. “How is that possible?” he asked. “They guarantee they will cash my check.” … Given the collapse of the value of crypto currency, I found Starbucks would not accept a bitcoin for a cappuccino. … Daniel Craig, the latest actor to play the movie role of James Bond, is playing the title role in Shakespeare’s play, MacBeth.” In the classic witches’ scene  of “Boil, Boil, Toil and Trouble …” MacBeth asked for eye of newt stirred but not shaken. In a twist on the ending in which MacDuff kills MacBeth, who is now king of Scotland, MacBeth defeats MacDuff’s army, which is camouflaged with tree branches from Birnam Wood, by the use of technology enhanced swords developed by his special assistant, MacQ. MacDuff’s name has represented difficulty for many young Shakespeare readers who think the character is a crime dog. ... Someone I know gets very upset at the discussion of Purdue Pharma and all the legal action taken against the company for its promotion of opioid subscriptions. "I don't understand. Those people produce great chicken," he says.

We just purchased an electric car.  But I think the builders got carried away with some of the technology.

The GPS not only showed the routes he needed  but warned “Don’t track mud on my nice clean floor.”… Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says employees call him the Eye of Sauron, after the evil lord in the “Lord of the Rings.” Does that mean Elon Musk is the villainous “Gollum”.  No wonder some standing near him, when it became clear Musk’s bid for “Twitter” was successful, heard him whispering, “My precious; my precious.”  ….  The old saying is that the pessimist sees the glass as half full and the optimist sees it as half empty. I say the true pessimist says there is no glass.  … The most publicized celebrity trial in years is going on so long, it’s believed there will be a new network—the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp network. … Tennis great Boris Becker has been sentenced to prison for hiding assets from a bankruptcy process in 2017.  It is believed he will spend time developing his backhand and his skill at Wordle.

index.php/component/rsform/form/31-2022-bob-scott-s-top-100-varsThe last two years have been like nothing else the mid-market has experienced--indeed like nothing most peope alive have experienced. But for the ERP channel, the pandemic produced opporuntity as remote work accelerated the move of businesses to the cloud.

But new opporunties and new problems usually go hand and hand and the demand for web-based financial products has been accompanied by a shortage of the consultants needed to install and implement them. This Special Report "Beyond the Pandemic" discusses these issues, as it announces the 2022 edition of Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs. It tells you where the leaders rank and examines how several of them have addressed the problems and the opportunities.

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Top 100 VARS Survivor? Given the pandemic over the last two year and the swift move to remote work and the cloud, it may have felt that way. But the top firms have done more than just survive--they have prospered.

We'll look at the trends impacting the market in a period that has been one of the most unusual events in the lives of most people--well, most of the earth's population. There's war in the Ukraine a virus outbreak exploding in China. So is the next year more likely to resemble thelast two years, or maybe there will be some return to the way life looked befoe March 2020

As we try to gain a handle on the market direction, the call for entries for Bob Scott's Top 100 VARs is open for the 2022 selection. So to receive a form for submission so you can be a part of this year's story, email to request a form and return it to  bob.scott@pmg360.com 

The title of this special report "Reselling the Era of COVID" sounds even more relevant with the recent outbreak of the Omicron variant. But one thing is for sure, the move to the cloud was accelerated by the pandemic in a way no one could have anticipated.

It has not beneftied everyone in the midmarket who sells ERP software. But a large number of resellers and software publishers have benefited, even as they work around issued such as remote work. So within that framework, we are pleased to announce the 100 resellers who have been chosen as VAR Stars for 2021 and share some of their experiences of the last year.

Just what kind of year has it been for the mid-market reselling community? It depends.

For some, it was very tough, but for others, it was the best year in their history as demand for cloud products drove business. If you were in segments such as hospitality and restaurants, it was very hard, if you were in ecommerce, things have never been better. Overall, it was a year of great change with the accelerated shift to the cloud from on-premise applications and the forced move to remote work which is producnglasting changes.

So click the button below to find out who made Bob Scott’s Top 100 VARs for 2021 and many of their thoughts about the last year and the future