PRECISIONPOINT SOFTWARE AND ARMANINO JOIN FORCES IN EXCLUSIVE NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIP

‘The perfect partner to build on the success of PrecisionPoint in North America’

PrecisionPoint, the global Business Intelligence (BI) Software developer, announced that is has signed a partnership agreement with Armanino LLP, a top 100 accounting and business consulting firm based in California and one of the largest Microsoft Dynamics Partners in North America. Under the terms of the agreement, Armanino becomes the exclusive North America distributor for PrecisionPoint in a move that provides tremendous potential for the company to expand its footprint in this valuable marketplace. Armanino is a Microsoft Inner Circle and Gold Certified Microsoft Dynamics ERP/CRM partner and among the top 1% of partners in the world with over 1000 Dynamics customers.

As part of the agreement, PrecisionPoint’s North American staff will be joining the Armanino consulting team with immediate effect to ensure a smooth transition for existing clients.

The partnership will allow PrecisionPoint to become even more focused on product development and on the delivery of the most robust data warehouse and reporting capabilities on the market for Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems. Its solutions are critically acclaimed and in 2014, PrecisionPoint was named as a finalist in the Client Software Product of the Year Category of the British Accountancy Awards.

PrecisionPoint has a strong customer base in Mexico, Canada and the US that includes high profile customers such as Brightstar. Intematix, FitFlop, BTI and Ken Blanchard Companies that rely on its quick to implement software to simplify access to decision critical BI. Terry Orletsky, vice president of IT, Ken Blanchard Companies said: “I don’t know of any other BI solution that starts at the data layer and presents the cube in such a short space of time.”

PrecisionPoint and Armanino have worked together informally on a number of successful client projects over the course of the last three years including the development of Armanino’s unique Dynamic Insights solution, that integrates the PrecisionPoint data warehouse, to provide easy-to-use dashboards to maximize efficiency and data flow.

Michael Evans, CEO, PrecisionPoint said: “Armanino is the perfect partner to build on the success of PrecisionPoint in North America across a variety of industries.  The potential for Armanino’s Dynamic Insights, which combines the PrecisionPoint data warehouse solution with QlikView to provide easy-to-use executive, sales and finance dashboards in just two to three weeks, instead of months or years like other standalone BI solutions, is enormous.”

Andy Armanino, managing partner of Armanino commented: “We are proud to expand our robust set of industry and business solutions for Microsoft Dynamics AX and GP customers with PrecisionPoint. The successful Dynamic Insights all-in-one reporting and analysis solution incorporates the PrecisionPoint data warehouse and we are excited to offer it to the universe of Microsoft Dynamics users throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.”

N.B. This agreement only relates to sales and the support of PrecisionPoint in North America. There is no change to existing arrangements in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.