And there were no members of the InterDyn consortium, a big shut out for that group. From the bigger side of the Microsoft VAR ecosystem are Columbus US and Tribridge. Alfapeople, which has U. S. operations, was chosen, but it’s still much more a European group, even more so than Columbus. Rose Business Solutions, with $5.2 million in annual revenue in our Top 100 list, made the club and is one of the smaller members. Master VAR SBS Group with $22.6 million in revenue joined another Master VAR Tribridge whose revenue is north of $100 million as Inner Circlers The third U.S. Master VAR, Socius, did not make the cut. With $30 million annually, mcaConnect is also onboard. Winnipeg-based Encore Business Solutions, which has $5.1 million (Canadian) is also among the smaller fry in the pool. One selection that is very curious is Qurius Spain, now owned by Prodware, since its parent Qurius, sold off its operating units last year when its business went south. Presumably, if all of Qurius' company operations had done as well, it would still be in business. We’ll deal with the CRM members of this group in another item.
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The North American organizations selected for this year’s Dynamics Inner Circle show changing names. But the composition itself is not surprising, a lot of the bigger VARs with a handful of midlevel folks thrown in, which is typical. There’s one fairly new development – except for Armanino, which has been putting a lot of emphasis on growing its consulting and reselling business, there were no accounting firms in the list; no McGladrey or Wipfli, to name a couple that used to make it.
