Mid-Market Customers Leverage the Power of Analytics with VAI's S2K Technology Roadmap

VAI today outlined its straightway-generation enterprise innovation roadmap for its flagship S2K Enterprise Resource Planning Software Suite running on the IBM Power Systems platform. The roadmap will help mid-market clients easily access and manage large-scale data, enabling them to make more-informed business decisions in real-time. It will as well extend that data to the mobile cloud to give remote workers immediate access to the most critical information right at their fingertips.

The roadmap - which includes enhanced analytics

The roadmap - which includes enhanced analytics and cloud-based innovation solutions -- will integrate with existing enterprise information systems and applications to leverage the mobile cloud, transforming how users work within and across the enterprise as then as with those outside the enterprise. Dramatic cost and operational efficiencies, expanded real-time collaboration with clients, vendors and partners also as faster and more personalized customer service are among the benefits end-users will realize when they implement these new solutions.

A 2012 IBM Beacon Award winner for Outstanding Solution for Midsize Businesses, VAI is renowned for its' award-winning software suite exactly designed for mid-market and enterprise organizations in the distribution, manufacturing, specialty retail and service sectors. Organizations just as Smith Drugs, Turtle Wax, Roto Rooter, Joshen Paper and Packaging, Maple Leaf Farms and Acme Tool rely on its S2K Software to automate critical business functions and deliver better bottom-line results.

"We worked closely with IBM on defining this then and there-generation roadmap," said VAI CEO Bob Vormittag. "New advances in analytics and mobile cloud research will empower mid-market and enterprise organizations to embrace analytics and quickly realize the value in accesing the right data in real-time. ERP continues to be the critical then step for organizations looking to improve efficiencies by using integrated applications to make more-informed business decisions at a much faster pace."

VAI's S2K research roadmap includes key performance indicators, interactive dashboards and graphics to provide real-time business intelligence functions within the enterprise. And, it will allow users to do more than just retrieve information over the web; it will provide network as a platform computing, allowing users to run the software in every respect through a browser.

VAI is a leading independent midmarket ERP software developer renowned for its customized solutions and ability to automate critical business functions for the distribution, manufacturing, specialty retail and service sectors. An IBM Premier Business Partner, VAI is the 2012 IBM Beacon Award Winner for Outstanding Solutions for Midsize Businesses. VAI continues to innovate with new solutions that leverage analytics, business intelligence, mobility and cloud innovation to help clients make more informed business decisions in real-time and empower their mobile workforces. VAI is headquartered in Ronkonkoma, NY with branch offices in Miami, Orlando, Chicago and Oroville, CA. For more information, please contact Diane Dady at 800-824-7776, ext. 236 or visit www.vai.net.