Bill Pollock, the bright and wildly successful owner of Optimation, Inc., a high level MES integrator, has been acquiring other integrators for years-- and then inheriting the issues of how to integrate those disparate systems with his own.
Bill introduced me to Kelly Burns with whom he owns Green-Kelly LLC. Green-Kelly (there is no Green--green is the color of money) is a "business procss outsourcing" company aimed at small businesses like integrators. For less than $50 per employee per month you can let G-K do your accounting, your Human Resources, your T&E, your CRM system, etc. When I ws running my rep/distributor/integrator company in the 1970s and 1980s I would have killed for a system like this! Visit http://www.greenkelly.com for more info.
Walt Boyes
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