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Acumatica provided a preview of what’s new in the upcoming release of version 2022 R1 at summit last week. The Beta is now available on the Acumatica community site. The upcoming Spring release of 2022 R1 improves the user experience and is intended to increase users production through streamlined work flow engines, continued focus on machine learning and expanding functionality across its industry editions and expanding global markets. Here are some key highlights of 2022 R1. Core Platform Continued direction toward AI/machine learning (G/L anomalies). Global Markets  New localization packet for the U.K and language packets for French Canadian and Spanish. Introduction of Canadian payroll Industry Editions Distribution – managing long-term sales orders / Blanket sales orders Manufacturing – By customer demand role-based out of the box dashboards will be introduced in 2022 R1. The manufacturing edition will have a dashboard for production meeting, production manager, and engineering. Construction and Service– automatic setup of service contracts and renewals where you can copy and print right within Acumatica. Unit billing is also being introduced in 2022 R1. Commerce – Native integration with Amazon that supports both Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) and Fulfilled by Merchants (FBM).

By Kyle Vanderstoep Acumatica, positioned as a mid-market ERP, can be deployed for a wide variety of companies – large, medium, or small. As companies experience growth, the amount of data it needs to manage grows.  However, in my experience developing custom code on the Acumatica platform, I find a significant number of organizations I work with punching above their weight when it comes to managing and processing data. Acumatica has a wide variety of processing screens to perform various tasks “en masse”, and additionally has a robust yet easy framework to follow for implementing your own processing screens. Out of the box, however, records are processed sequentially (1,2,3 etc.). Fortunately, it is possible to enable parallel processing for clients with large data processing requirements. Parallel processing takes advantage of the fact that applications can utilize more than a single processing thread at once. Think of the days before computers, where clerks manually processed transactions by hand. How did you speed up the number of transactions you can record? Either you search high and low for the wonder clerk who is super-fast, or you simply hire more clerks and split the work evenly amongst them. Acumatica can be configured similarly. To enable Parallel processing, you need to add the following keys to theweb.configfile under the Configuration/Appsettings node: GIST:https://gist.github.com/lekkersolutions/320b32b5eeb15e36ce29957095862b3d To test this, lets add these keys to the web.config file and create a basic processing screen that processes a list of records: GIST: https://gist.github.com/lekker-solutions/46b8a010c4ceae41bea63707b8e9ba22 Even though we have added the keys, the processing screen still returns the entire list of GL Batches when “Process All” is selected. This is due to the keys only setting a global rule on processing. It still needs to be enabled on your custom screen itself. The code below demonstrates how: GIST: https://gist.github.com/lekker-solutions/33552d7e645905d0a995a9df7f56db49 Now let’s try the process the all button: When you look at the result of the processing screen, you can see that all records have been processed even though that thread we caught only saw 10: Here is a diagram illustrating the difference between the two, and where the breakpoint is caught in the code: During sequential processing, the thread (aka the clerk) saw the entire list of items to process. In parallel processing, the thread only saw the max number of items (specified at a max level in the web.config file and additionally in the parallel processing options at the screen level). Parallel processing, while not a silver bullet, can significantly increase the processing capability for Acumatica users working with large amounts of data. With just a few changes to the web.config file, you can easily enable it on both the base ERP code and your custom code. There is no need to manage your own threads and the other complexities that come with it. I hope that this article will help you with the data processing volume that is ever increasing at a faster and faster pace in this digitally transforming world. Happy Coding! —————————————————————————————————————————– This article was penned by Kyle Vanderstoep, Senior Applications Developer at Nims. The article was featured in a recent Acumatica Newsletter.

This week Acumatica held its first Summit in over a year. After some uncertainty if there would even be a Summit in 2021, Acumatica announced it would hold Summit in Las Vegas in May but was subsequently pushed back to July due to the ongoing global pandemic. During the kickoff keynote on Monday, Acumatica announced a couple of exciting features that will be coming in the Fall 2021 R2 release. Coming in 2021 R2 Acumatica will have direct integration with Microsoft Teams. Acumatica’s development team has been working in collaboration with developers in the Microsoft Teams division to create the integration. Acumatica is collaborating with Adobe to create tighter integration with Acrobat. Coming in 2021 R2 will be a feature that will allow more flexibility with the use of annotations in Acrobat right inside of Acumatica. The 2021 R2 Beta will be available on August 4th. Acumatica also shared exciting news they received from research industry analysts that places Acumatica at the top of customer satisfaction (G2 Grid). Acumatica ranks as the fastest growing ERP company globally outpacing other competitors in this category by a large margin (IDC).

Acumatica was named a gold medalist in the 2021 Software Reviews Enterprise Resource Planning Data Quadrant Awards. The award is based on an annual report released by Software Reviews which is a division of Info-Tech Research Group. product solutions focusing on satisfaction of product features, VAR experience and skills, and likelihood to recommend the software to others. Acumatica placed in the top 4 of the quadrant among other solutions that received composite scores of 8/10. Some of the highlights for Acumatica include ranking first for both business value and usability.

In a previous article we explained what the new link and meter tiles are in 2021 R1. The new tiles are intended to make data more visible and accessible. What is behind these tiles are data from other parts of Acumatica. For instance, the information tied to each link are sourced from either workspaces or forms such as reports/generic inquires. With meter tiles / KPI meters you can set the properties by selecting from several pre-defined filter settings. Also, in 2021 R1, Acumatica now lets you sort data using a funnel chart. This is simply achieved by selecting a new chart from the dashboard and choosing the chart type funnel, which is sorted and configured by opening the hood in filter settings.