November at FinancialForce.com has left us feeling extremely thankful. Thankful for our incredible customers, thankful for brilliant coworkers and thankful for a company culture that makes going to work satisfying.

We’re feeling refreshed and are excited to share our favorite PR moments from the past month with you. From award winning customers to company profiles, take a look below at November’s picks:

1. Earlier in November, we attended Constellation Research’s Connected Enterprise Conference where FinancialForce HCM customer, Asha Aravindakshan, Director of Global Talent Operations at Ashoka, was honored on stage at the event’s awards gala as the winner in the Future of Work category. Constellation Research profiled Asha in video and write-up following the event.

2. Following conversations with our CEO Jeremy Roche, Computer Business Review provided readers with an in-depth look at FinancialForce.com and where we are headed following the round of funding we received earlier in 2015.

3. Our Director of Platform Technology, Kevin Roberts, shared predictions with CIO.com on how the Internet of Things (IoT) and ERP will affect CRM in 2016.

4. Camfed, a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating poverty in Africa through the education of girls and the empowerment of young women, was profiled in The Financial Times, and discussed how their use of technology like Salesforce and FinancialForce.com help power their important work.

5. AccountingWeb.co.uk featured an interview with our CFO, John Bonney, on his thoughts around the ever-changing role of the CFO.

Thanks to everyone’s hard work and cheers to a very merry December ahead! For all coverage from the past month, head on over to the press center.

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Last night our team had the pleasure of attending Aragon Research’s holiday party and 2015 Hot Vendors award ceremony hosted at the beautiful Sofitel hotel in Redwood city.

Earlier this year FinancialForce HCM was selected as a Hot Vendor in the Human Resources category and we happily accepted the plaque last night from Aragon’s David Mario Smith and Jim Lundy.

This was Aragon’s first Hot Vendor awards ceremony but the annual vendor list has been around for years, honoring companies across multiple markets that “are doing something truly “new or different.” It was great being in such great company – vendors that attended included Asana, Vidyard, IBM, Built.Io, Atlassian and many more.

FinancialForce.com couldn’t be more thrilled to be recognized. It is a great motivation for us to continue to innovate in the HR space by building Human Capital Management on the Salesforce platform. We look forward to continuing to be different and staying “hot.”

Thanks to Aragon for a great evening!

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Wow, 2015, what a year. From announcing our $50 million run-rate in early January, to our major funding news in March, another successful Dreamforce in September and countless customer successes, product announcements and new hire news in between, it was a record breaking year for FinancialForce.com to say the least.

Looking back at all our coverage and awards from 2015, it was nearly impossible to pick our favorites. We plucked out a few highlights for each month below, but for a review of all of this year’s wins check out our press center.

Cheers to a stellar 2015! Happy New Year, see you all in 2016.

• January: We kicked off 2015 with a bang, announcing that our revenue grew by 91% and we hit a $50 million run rate. Forbes and others featured the announcement.

• February: Enterprise Apps Today highlighted an update to FinancialForce SCM, adding rebate revenue management capabilities for users.

• March: March was a major month for the company – we announced that we received $110 million in funding in a round led by Technology Crossover Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Forbes, TechCrunch, ZDNet and many others reported on our exciting news.

• April: In April we officially kicked off our FrankenCloud campaign with a byline in Diginomica outlining the dangers many companies face with stitched together clouds.

• May: Our FrankenCloud campaign received even more attention in outlets like CRN, Enterprise Times, ChannelLife and Diginomica during NetSuite’s annual conference, SuiteWorld.

• June: Diginomica featured an article on how our customer, HP Enterprise, has turned to the cloud to help transform its processes and get closer to customers, especially with solutions like FinancialForce PSA.

• July: Our customer Mark Coy of Summa Technologies was interviewed for a piece in Workforce Management about their use of FinancialForce HCM and predictive analytics.

• August: Built in Chicago covered the launch of our first midwest office opening in Chicago.

• September: September this year was all about Dreamforce! Computerworld received the exclusive on our many announcements at the conference including advances in financial visibility and reporting, three ‘Lightning ready’ apps, two pilot FinancialForce ERP Wave apps and the FinancialForce Punch Time Tracker App for Apple Watch.

• October: Following our announcement of FinancialForce Peoplecasting at HR Tech in Las Vegas, Diginomica recapped the news, noting that along with our product enhancements and new leadership, FinancialForce HCM is “rolling out big time.”

• November: Computer Business Review published a feature on FinancialForce.com and CEO Jeremy Roche, highlighting the past year and company plans in 2016 and beyond.

• December: Our very own VP of Customers for Life, Samantha Loveland, was interviewed by The Huffington Post for a Q&A on her experience as a successful woman in business, thoughtful advice for those in the industry and her time spent at FinancialForce.com thus far.

Cheers to 2016!

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Can you believe the first month of 2016 is already behind us? The days may have flown by, but if January was any indication of the year ahead, we’re on board!

Last month was action-packed. We celebrated a huge AppExchange anniversary, spread the word about cloud adoption research, secured company features, interviews and much more.

Take a look below at January’s PR Picks:

1. Our director of platform, Kevin Roberts, penned a piece for Cloud Computing Intelligence, sharing thoughts on what to expect in 2016 and how “emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things will force businesses to become more flexible and agile” in the year ahead.
2. Kevin was also featured in a TechTarget story around the rising adoption of mobile financial applications.
3. We worked with analysts Esteban Kolsky of thinkJar and Denis Pombriant of Beagle Research Group to get the word out around research they conducted through a cloud strategy survey aiming to get at the heart of enterprise cloud application adoption and identify some challenges companies face with their deployments. CIO Insight, eWeek, CMSWire and others reported on the survey results.
4. In January, Salesforce’s AppExchange celebrated a huge milestone – their 10th anniversary! To honor the AppExchange and to highlight its importance on the success of our own company, we shared several blog posts including a video message from FinancialForce CEO, Jeremy Roche. Jeremy was also quoted in TechCrunch around the impact of the AppExchange and last but not least, we had a special birthday message flown in the skies for all of San Francisco to see. Salesforce blogged about it here.
5. IDG Connect profiled FinancialForce in a story about companies who have found a home and success in Yorkshire, UK.

Stay tuned in February for even more excitement and be sure to check out the press center for all of our best hits.

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If you’ve been poking around the recently announced Community Live site, we hope you spotted the 360 Customer Excellence Awards. We’re proud to announce that all of our customers can submit for this year’s awards starting now!

The awards recognize outstanding FinancialForce customer achievements across all of our products and serve as an incredible opportunity for customers to share their vision for using technology to catapult their businesses ahead into the future. We were blown away by last year’s record number of submissions and look forward to hearing what successes our customers have seen since.

All FinancialForce customers are eligible to participate and can nominate themselves for one or more categories including:

• FinancialForce Financial Management Excellence
• FinancialForce Professional Services Automation (PSA) Excellence
• FinancialForce Human Capital Management (HCM) Excellence
• Best Customer Experience
• Community Champion of the Year
• Exemplary Use of Platform

Call for entries are now open and will close on Wednesday, April 13th, 2016. Winners will be announced on stage on both Tuesday, May 10th at FinancialForce Community Live in Las Vegas and on Wednesday, May 18th, at FinancialForce Community Live in London.

Whether you are a brand new customer, have been with us for years or maybe even won an award last year, we invite you to submit a nomination (or two).

To submit your nomination, please visit this form and don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions. Best of luck!

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February has been full of accolades for FinancialForce PSA. First, the application was named one of the top 10 most popular Salesforce partner apps in CRN Magazine and then  we were named a ‘High Performer’ and topped satisfaction ratings in G2 Crowd’s Winter 2016 PSA rankings, which are based on user reviews.

The Grid is based on more than 150 reviews written by business professionals for over 30 listed products in the PSA category. It also leverages customer satisfaction data reported by authenticated users along with vendor market presence determined from social and public data.

#1 in customer satisfaction against the competition

We are thrilled that we came out as #1 in customer satisfaction against the competition. We’re dedicated to making the overall PSA experience a positive one for current and future customers and feedback through G2 Crowd and other channels helps us achieve that.

You can download the full report from G2 crowd here and check out our profile to read or write a review of your own for any/all of our solutions: PSA, HCM, and Financial Management.

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Last month we shared survey results from analysts Esteban Kolsky of thinkJar and Denis Pombriant of Beagle Research Group around current cloud adoption strategies (or lack thereof) in the enterprise. It was an eye-opening report that confirmed a majority of businesses are still slow to cloud adoption, especially when it comes to a one-platform approach.

We had the chance to sit down with Esteban and Denis to dive deeper into a few topics with video Q&As. We’ll be sharing those videos one-by-on the blog in the coming weeks so be sure to check analystanalycloud clouback in!

Today’s conversation focuses specifically on services organizations and how a single platform cloud strategy can help deliver benefits to their customers. What do you think the research found? Here’s a hint: it’s all about access to real-time data.

Be sure to download the report here for an in-depth look at the data, and in case you missed the full-length video of Denis and Esteban dissecting the research, you can check that out here.

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February is all about that special four letter word, L-O-V-E, and here at FinancialForce, we especially loved all the news and attention that was drummed up this month.

In February our customers were spotlighted in interviews, we appointed new company executuves and made the list in a few important industry rankings. You can check out all our great coverage in the press center but see below for a handful of favorite highlights:

Want to learn more about the PR team? You can head over to our contacts page on our brand new website (launched today!) for a little background on the team. Don’t be shy, reach out and say hello. We’d love to hear from you!

1. In exciting news for us this month, IDG Connect named FinancialForce to their annual list of “20 Red-Hot, Pre-IPO Companies in 2016.” Check out the full list here.
2. We announced that Joe Fuca has joined the company as VP of WorldWide Field Operations, to lead and expand our global sales organization and Customers for Life. Joe spoke with Enterprise Times which resulted in a story about Joe’s role, his focus on customer success and what’s next for the company.
3. In addition to Joe’s appointment, we shared some big growth numbers from 2015 –  we surpassed 1,000 customers and achieved approximately 60% in subscription revenue growth year-over-year! Read more in this story from Denis Prombriant in Enterprise Irregulars.
4. In other news, CRN named us as one of “The 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors Of The 2016 Cloud 100.”
5. Our FinancialForce customer Hodges-Mace was featured in a TechTarget article about what goes into selecting the right cloud for a company’s financials.

Go on, take the leap – read up on all our exciting news in the press center.

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The deadline to submit for this year’s 360 Customer Excellence Awards is only a month away (April 13th). If you haven’t submitted yet, what are you waiting for!?

The awards ceremony will take place on stage in Las Vegas AND in London at both FinancialForce Community Live events in May. This is your time to be recognized – we can’t wait to hear your stories of innovation and impact that technology has had on your business.

Take a look at the categories and more information on how to enter here.

In other news, today we’re excited to officially announce the four judges who will be reviewing your nominations. Let’s take a closer look:

Jeremy Roche (@Jeremy_Roche) is the founder, president and CEO of FinancialForce where he is responsible for the company’s overall strategy and direction. Jeremy was the major force behind the creation of FinancialForce in 2009 and has driven the company to become the leading Cloud ERP provider on the Salesforce App Cloud.

Kevin Roberts (@kroberts_nh) is the director of platform technology at FinancialForce. He has over 25 years of back office systems integration experience across a variety of technical environments and is a key figure in the Salesforce ecosystem. He has been with FinancialForce since its inception in 2009.

Martin Veitch (@Martin_V) is currently the editorial director at IDG Connect. He has been writing about business and technology for 25 years, having held senior roles at IT Week, CIO and now IDG Connect. He has also contributed to many publications including the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and BBC Online.

Zoli Erdos (@zolierdos) is the editor of technology publications CloudAve and Enterprise Irregulars. He is also the program chair of SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs) and is a startup advisor focusing on business software, SaaS and collaboration. In his “prior life” he spent 15 years at management positions with SAP, IBM, Deloitte, KPMG and the like.

Call for entries is open and will close on April 13th. Please let us know if you have any questions – we’re here to help you. Good luck and see you in May!

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The deadline to be nominated for the 2016 FinancialForce 360 Customer Excellence Awards is rapidly approaching.  If you haven’t submitted yet, you have until Wednesday, April 13th to do so. We want to hear from and celebrate you!

We have already received incredible stories of customer success and innovation using FinancialForce solutions and the Salesforce platform – so be sure to nominate your business for the chance to be honored during our Las Vegas and London customer conferences, Community Live in May.

Let’s recap everything you need to know about the awards:

What: The FinancialForce 360 Customer Excellence Awards recognize outstanding customer achievements across all solution lines. Categories include: Best Customer Experience, Exemplary Use of Platform, Community Champion of the Year and Excellence in Financial Management, HCM and PSA.

Who: All FinancialForce customers are encouraged to submit their nominations so we can celebrate your achievements! Past winners and finalists are also encouraged to apply.

This year’s judges include: Jeremy Roche, President & CEO of FinancialForce; Kevin Roberts, Director of Platform Technology at FinancialForce; Martin Veitch, Editorial Director of IDG Connect; and Zoli Erdos, Publisher/Editor of CloudAve & Enterprise Irregulars

Where: Winners will be honored on­ stage in May at both the US FinancialForce Community Live event in Las Vegas and UK FinancialForce Community Live event in London.

When: Deadline to submit is Wednesday, April 13th. Finalists will be announced prior to Community Live and winners will be formally announced via press release on May 10th.

How: Click here to easily submit your nomination!

Learn more about FinancialForce Community Live events and the 360 Customer Excellence Awards at http://communitylive.financialforce.com/.

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Spring has officially sprung at FinancialForce and we’re not just talking about warmer days and allergy season.  

We kicked off March with a bang – officially announcing our Spring 2016 Financial Management release. The update was received by our customers, press and analysts with incredible feedback, highlighting the new user experience and groundbreaking personalization features. March also brought us exciting customer news, IoT bylines and more. See below for a few of our favorite articles.

March PR Picks

1. In the beginning of March, we introduced the Spring 16 release of our Financial Management application, which equips CFOs and their finance teams with access to “a personalized experience that allows users to tailor how they enter accounting information, how they view it and how they work, using a ‘clicks not code’ approach that is unrivaled in the Cloud ERP industry.” We met with analysts and journalists to show off the new release, resulting in reports and articles from NetworkWorld, Ventana Research, IDC, Enterprise Times, Diginomica, Accounting Today and many more. A full rundown can be seen in the press center.
2. Also last month we announced that two of our PSA customers, CodeScience and Fruition Partners, were named ‘Best-of-the-Best’ in SPI’s annual PS Maturity™ Benchmark report, which is designed to help professional service organizations understand their relative performance compared to an expansive benchmark of peers. This was the sixth consecutive year where FinancialForce customers made the top performers list. Download the full report here.
3. Our director of platform technology, Kevin Roberts penned a contributed article for VMBlog on his thoughts around why IoT is poised to be the next hundred billion dollar market.
4. Kevin Roberts also shared a piece on Diginomica regarding the six bad habits of finance and how to break them.

In addition to our monthly PR Picks, you can check out all our great coverage in the press center.

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Living in the cloud without a doubt makes life easier, but new research from analysts Esteban Kolsky of thinkJar and Denis Pombriant of Beagle Research Group shows that we’re still in the early stages of adoption, especially when it comes to strategically implementing solutions on one platform.

In fact, 85 percent of organizations are using two or more separate cloud applications at a time to run their business and research shows that unchecked by IT, many business units buy cloud solutions without much thought to how multiple systems will share data. 

We dove a bit deeper into the data with a series of video discussions between Esteban and Denis. To give you another visual look, below is an infographic that looks at some of the data points. Where does your company fall?

Click to enlarge

Be sure to download the full Crowded Cloud research report here.

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We bet the most common phrase heard around your office today was, “I can’t believe it’s May already!” We know, right? April came and went too fast, but looking back we know why – it was a busy one!

As always, we are thrilled to share our monthly PR picks with you. Last month we were working to spread the word about revenue management surveys, customer success stories, announcing 360 Customer Excellence Award finalists, and revealing our own Customer Chief Officer. See below for the top hits of April and visit our press page for a full rundown of FinancialForce coverage.

April PR Picks

• A revenue recognition survey we commissioned with the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) was released this month and the findings were fascinating! Half of the respondents said that their business/firms are not ready for new revenue recognition standards, while 60% indicated that they are still dependent on spreadsheets. eWEEK, Accounting Today, Enterprise Times and others reported on the survey.
• Last week we officially announced Adrian Ivanov’s appointment as FinancialForce’s first Chief Customer Officer. As a senior member of the founding executive team, Adrian will now lead the company’s customer strategy and execution. San Francisco Business Times and The San Francisco Chronicle covered the news.
• Our PSA customer Frank Bennardo, founder of Engineering Express wrote an article for Window & Door magazine about the merits of implementing FinancialForce PSA software, especially for engineering firms.
• This month we revealed the finalists of this year’s 360 Customer Excellence Awards. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 11th during FinancialForce Community Live in Las Vegas so be sure to check our press center next week for the results.
• Our very own SVP of Employee Success, Charles Ashworth, penned an article for Diginomica on digital transformation and the changing role of HR.

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May was truly a month to remember! Looking back at the last 31 days, we can’t believe how much was jammed into one month. Not only did we host two stellar customer events in Las Vegas and London, we celebrated the winners of our 360 Customer Excellence Awards, announced several new customers and their FinancialForce success stories, unveiled a new product offering: FinancialForce Professional Services Communities, won a few awards, contributed thought leadership bylines and much, much more.

To say the least, May has successfully propelled us into what we hope will be a sunny and productive summer. Check out some of the month’s PR highlights below and be sure to head over to the press center for a full list of coverage and announcements.

May PR Picks

• Earlier in May we hosted Community Live, our annual customer event, which took place in Las Vegas. We invited Dennis Howlett from Diginomica for an exclusive experience at Community Live where he had the chance to sit down for deeper conversations with a few of our customers: Motus, Manhattan Associates, Himagine and BRG. Dennis’ full write up of his time at Community Live can be read here including full videos of his customer chats.
• Also during Community Live in both Las Vegas and London, we celebrated the winners of our fourth annual 360 Customer Excellence awards. Read the press release here to see who was honored.
• During Salesforce World Tour London, we announced the new FinancialForce Professional Services Communities, a social project management platform for professional services organizations (PSOs), their customers and partners. Professional Services Communities is built on the Salesforce Community Cloud and enables organizations to break down communication barriers between customers, partners and subcontractors, and gain deeper, real-time visibility into projects for a more unified service experience. Coverage appeared in publications like Computerworld, Diginomica, FSN,  and Channele2e.
• Also during Salesforce World Tour London, we shared some customer news that Camfed, the campaign for female education in Africa, has transformed its operations through the use of FinancialForce Financial Management and Salesforce technology, enhancing how it serves its clients (girls in rural Africa), their communities and donor partners, as the non-profit undergoes a period of rapid growth.
• Our CFO John Bonney contributed a piece to CFO.com on how finance teams can get started with leveraging the power of IoT.
• This past month we also announced that customer NewVoiceMedia switched from Sage to FinancialForce Financial Management. Enterprise Times, FSN and others covered the news.
• Joe Fuca, FinancialForce President of Worldwide Field Operations, penned an article for Selling Power that details his passion for customer success and tips for building a true customer-centric culture.
• Following the official announcement of Adrian Ivanov’s appointment as CCO in April, he sat down for a Q&A with Sandhill.com where he discussed what he brings to the new role as well as overall thoughts on the rise of the Chief Customer Office, initial goals at FinancialForce and shared some advice for others on the importance of customer success within an organization.
• Last but not least, in May FinancialForce was honored with three wonderful awards:
  • In the 11th Annual 2016 IT World Awards, presented by Network Products Guide, FinancialForce won in the following categories:
    • Hot Companies of the Year – honors companies that are high-growth and showcase best-in-class products and people
    • Heightening IT Awareness Campaign of the Year – FinancialForce won this award for last year’s integrated “Beware of the ERP Frankencloud” marketing campaign
• FinancialForce ERP was selected as a winner of the 17th annual CRM Excellence Awards presented by CUSTOMER Magazine

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Gotta Catch em all!

…we mean ERP apps of course. In case you’ve been living under a Pokeball, er, rock for the past week you may have noticed your coworkers, family, friends and strangers on the street a bit preoccupied with the new Pokémon GO game. We can’t say we’re innocent here at FinancialForce.

The game is simple – go out in the real world and catch as many Pokémon as you can on your phone to level up. We found a few interesting reminders, if not metaphors, in the game’s draw for what happens when you start building your collection of business apps – using our suite of FinancialForce ERP apps (PSA, Financial Management and HCM) – to level up. Let us explain:

1.  More Pokémon = More Power:  A key goal of Pokémon Go is to catch as many Pokémon as you can in order to create a diverse roster to help you in battles as you progress in the game. That’s how it works for your back-office apps too. In order to tackle a challenging business landscape and difficult customer requests, your company needs to ensure you have the right solutions in place so you can continue to evolve. Having your professional services, financial management and human capital management applications on one platform gives you a clear picture of your customers and provides better visibility into the health of your overall business.

2. You’ll start to see the world differently: What makes Pokémon GO so different than most mobile games these days is its ability to pull players out of their phones and into the real world. In order to catch Pokémon, players are inspired to walk outside and explore their cities to uncover new creatures. Further, certain Pokémon appear only near their native environment (for example, water-based Pokemon appear near lakes and oceans). The game is forcing people out of their comfort zone and hopefully to see the world around them in a new light. The same thing actually happens when you catch a PSA, HCM and FM app. Often, companies are using disparate solutions where the data doesn’t speak to each other. Combine this with an entirely different CRM solution and businesses are poised for a future of unhappy customers. When these apps are combined, on one platform, you can look at your business in a new light and uncover strategies and efficiencies you never thought of before.

3. New world of ‘On the Go’: Pokémon GO has also presented a new use case of how mobile phones can be used to interact with the world around you, and is possibly the first widely adopted use case of augmented reality. Who thought our phones could create a new world of imagination and exploration for so many, so quickly? Mobility is increasingly important in today’s workforce as well. FinancialForce ERP dashboards and customer information are always available at your fingertips. You can now respond to a customer issue via Chatter and approve an invoice, while also out trying to catch Pokémon (on your lunch break of course). We can’t wait to see what comes next.

So go on, get out there and catch our PSA, Financial Management and HCM apps and if you find yourself with all three, you will level up your game and join the ranks like some of our own successful FinancialForce ERP customers like:

• Venture Technologies: http://www.financialforce.com/customer-stories/venture-technologies-erp/
• Open Symmetry: http://www.financialforce.com/customer-stories/opensymmetry-erp/
• Jacobus Consulting: http://www.financialforce.com/customer-stories/jacobus-consulting/

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Today we are thrilled to announce that KinCare, one of Australia’s leading in-home care providers specializing in aged and disability services, has selected FinancialForce Financial Management to run their company financials.

Highly competitive market for in-home care service providers

KinCare, a $100 million company with over 10,000 customers, selected FinancialForce as part of a strategic company decision to move all key business applications onto the Salesforce Platform. In 2017 Australia’s in-home care industry will be affected by the rollout of the new “Customer Directed Care” (CDC) healthcare model which removes the cap on the number of customers a provider, like KinCare, can serve, resulting in a new highly competitive market for service providers.

A new system for efficient scaling

Because of this pending change, KinCare realized they needed a system that could help them become more efficient and scale with them over the years. The company made a visionary decision back in 2012 to pick a single platform to run their company on in order to have a single, automated view of the business.

Jerome Barrientos, CIO of KinCare commented on the selection of FinancialForce:

“With FinancialForce, we are closing the loop on our single platform investment and are fully prepared to handle the exciting changes to come in 2017 with the introduction of CDC. Once implemented, having our financials on the same platform as everything else will give us a full, clear picture of our customer, employees and overall business health. We no longer have to focus on the systems, only on delivering the best customer experience”

Prior to FinancialForce and Salesforce, KinCare used an internally developed ERP solution that was built for a much smaller market and customer size at the time to handle all financials, employee and customer data.

We are excited to welcome KinCare into the FinancialForce family and can’t wait to hear how FinancialForce Financial Management supports their growth and helps them continue to provide world-class service to their clients.

For a closer look at KinCare’s investment in FinancialForce, please see today’s press release.

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July was HOT, HOT, HOT. Well maybe not the temperature here in San Francisco but we sure had a global PR heat wave and it doesn’t look like we’ll be cooling off anytime soon.

We kicked the month off with a customer story from Australia, won a  prominent award in the UK, secured some commentary on the new revenue recognition rules that are poised to strongly affect the regulatory landscape in the coming months, and just last week we made quite a splash with our take on the wider impact of  Oracle’s acquisition of NetSuite.

Take a look below at some of July’s greatest PR hits and be sure to head over to the Press Center for a full overview.

1. Earlier in the month we announced that KinCare, one of Australia’s leading in­-home care providers specializing in aged and disability services, selected FinancialForce Financial Management to run their company financials. KinCare selected FinancialForce as part of their strategic company decision to move all key business applications onto the Salesforce Platform. This great customer win was covered by CIO Australia, Enterprise Times, HomeCareDaily and others.
2. Also this month we were recipients of a 2016 DOFscar, also known as a Director of Finance award, for Financial Software Provider of the Year. The awards are in their second year and are hosted by Ten Alps Media, the people behind Director of Finance, a magazine and website aimed to advise finance professionals on the most up to date issues faced by major corporations and leading finance directors.
3. Our General Manager of Financial Management applications, Raphael Bres, spoke with AccountingWeb.co.uk to share FinancialForce’s perspective on the pending changes associated with new revenue recognition landscape.
4. Late in July, Oracle officially announced they were acquiring NetSuite and we jumped in to provide our comments on the industry news. First we posted a statement on our blog highlighting that “One of the biggest issues plaguing organizations is the FrankenCloud, and today we’ve learned that Oracle’s will grow into an even bigger monster as it gains more bolt on appendages including another cloud technology stack and another set of ERP and CRM apps.” Our comments were picked up in multiple outlets including Computerworld, eWEEK, Enterprise Times and others. Be sure to check out the blog for our full statement.

Now THAT’S hot.

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We try not to brag, but here at FinancialForce, you could call us the Michael Phelps of financial software. Lately, we’ve been racking up gold medals for our financial management solution faster than Usain Bolt.

Just this week, FinancialForce was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Product or Service of the Year – Software – Financial Management Solution category in The 13th Annual International Business Awards! We couldn’t be more pleased to be recognized for the hard work our Financial Management team has put into the product and the customers who continue to help us innovate and deliver.

There’s no other perfect time to receive this honor with the Olympics going on, celebrating  talent from all over the world, in a diverse range of categories. The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – are eligible to submit nominations. The 2016 IBAs received entries from more than 60 nations and territories. Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 200 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process from May through early August.

But, wait there’s more! FinancialForce Financial Management didn’t just win one Gold medal this summer! We were honored with two other awards in the past month alone:

1. Earlier this week we won Best SaaS Product for Management Accounting or Budgeting at the SaaS Awards, for excellence and innovation in SaaS. Read all about the win in our recap blog post.
2. In July we collected a 2016 DOFscar, also known as a Director of Finance award, for Financial Software Provider of the Year. You can learn more about the DOFscars here.

What an exciting time for FinancialForce. We’re motivated by our recent wins to keep delivering the best Cloud ERP solutions to our customers and compete, not just every four years, but every single day.

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Another summer month down, which means we’re that much closer to Dreamforce! We hope you’re as excited as we are for October’s activities but before then, we’ve got a lot of great coverage and awards to revel in. We’ve also got plenty of exciting news coming up before we can even lift the curtain on Dreamforce, so stay tuned!

August was filled with more awards, customer news, great career advice from our CEO and much more. Check out our favorite moments from the past month below and be sure to head over to our Press Center for a full list of highlights.

1. Speaking from personal experience, FinancialForce CEO Jeremy Roche shared a few tips to Fortune readers on how to land a job you didn’t necessarily go to school for. Jeremy himself has held multiple positions across a variety of departments – legal, IT, sales, you name it.
2. Kevin Roberts, our director of platform technology, also had some advice to share this past month. In CMSWire, he spoke to SMBs about strategies to best migrate your business to the cloud, including picking a platform and sticking to it, and integrating social collaboration.
3. In awards news, FinancialForce Financial Management won its third award in two months! This time it was a Gold-level International Business Award (AKA Stevie Award) for the Product or Service of the Year – Software – Financial Management Solution category.
4. FSN wrote a detailed profile, following July’s news that Kincare, one of Australia’s leading in­-home care providers specializing in aged and disability services, has selected FinancialForce Financial Management to run their financials.
5. In more customer news, we had the pleasure of announcing that LiquidHub selected FinancialForce ERP to optimize their workflows and unify data. LiquidHub replaced a collection of solutions, including in-house built applications, to create a single system of record for better management, more control of key business data, and significant improvements in reporting capabilities. We can’t wait to hear what great things LiquidHub achieves in the future.

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We’re thrilled to announce that for the second year in a row, two of our customers have been selected as finalists in this year’s Constellation Research SuperNova Awards, which are “the first and only awards to celebrate the leaders and teams who have overcome the odds to successfully apply emerging and disruptive technologies for their organizations.” Both customers were selected for their FinancialForce case studies and technology innovation in the following categories:

Mark Coy, Chief Human Resources Officer at our customer Summa Technologies has been named a finalist in the Future of Work – Human Capital Management category for their use of FinancialForce HCM.

Daniel Probert, Head of IT Innovation at our customer Camfed has been named a finalist in the Technology Optimization and Innovation for their use of FinancialForce Financial Management.

The SuperNova Award polls are open until September 21st

Winners will be unveiled at the SuperNova Awards Gala Dinner during Constellation’s Connected Enterprise Conference in October but first, we need your help!

While Summa and Camfed’s nominations will be reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges, a percentage of the overall winning submission is determined by the community of voters – that means you and me! The polls have opened to the public today and will close on September 21st. Please take one minute to cast your votes for our incredible customers Summa Technologies and Camfed by voting on their finalist profiles here (Summa) and here (Camfed) OR manually search here. You may cast one vote per category. Spread the word to your friends and colleagues.

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