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ErpSeal Podcast
by Tim Rodman
Mid-Market ERP systems cater to companies that are doing $10M-$500M USD in Annual Revenue.Companies that are too small for Mid-Market ERP are typically running on QuickBooks in the United States or similar applications in other countries.Companies that are too large for Mid-Market ERP are typically running something like SAP, Oracle, Workday, or one of a dozen or so other products.Mid-Market ERP sits in the middle, with dozens of products serving the space, but the types of companies in this space deal with very similar challenges.Let’s talk about those challenges and explore technology solutions.
Episodes
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EP 190: Susan DeLawyer - Is AI-native ERP a Real Thing?
- Tim wrote off the idea of AI-native ERP for several months after hearing about it, but now he’s become intrigued by it. - Let’s talk with someone who jumped into AI-native ERP with both feet without looking back. - Is it a real thing or just a trick nowadays to get money from investors? - Let’s...
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EP 189: Samuel Robitaille - Acumatica AcuLens - AI Usage Intelligence
- For most consultancies, how their client’s ERP is being used is mostly a mystery - Which screens carry the workload? Which licensed modules sit idle? Which customizations are not being used? - The ERP publisher has visibility into all sorts of telemetry details like this, but not the VAR -...
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EP 188: Daniel Amaro - Microsoft Copilot Cowork
- I tried Microsoft Copilot a while back and it seemed like a piece of junk compared to ChatGPT and Claude - But things move fast in the AI world so maybe things have changed? - As of June 16, 2026, Copilot Cowork is now generally available, so maybe it’s time to take another look - And ask a…
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EP 187: Nicole Ronchetti - PrintNode, an Acumatica DeviceHub Alternative
- Acumatica DeviceHub is the print server for Acuamtica that sends stuff to warehouse printers - DeviceHub exists, but it’s not great, so let’s explore an alternative option - Nicole uses this thing called PrintNode which sounds pretty interesting - Is PrintNode better than DeviceHub? Or maybe…
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EP 186: Alan Conroy - Practical and Useful Tools for Acumatica
- Sometimes "it’s the little things in life" that make your day more pleasant Alan built 2 "it’s the little things" Chrome extensions (Audit Trail Analyzer and Trace Copier) for Acumatica - He’s also got something called Lumi that gives you real-time line level color coding across 15 data entry...
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EP 185: Crestwood - Sales Order AI Agent for Acumatica & AI Consulting
- Crestwood recently launched an AI Agent for Acumatica that automates the entry of Customer PO PDF data into the Sales Orders screen in Acumatica. - Sounds interesting, let’s check it out! - Let’s also learn about their AI Consulting Practice since every VAR right now is trying to figure out how...
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EP 184: Andrew Nunez - Executive Thinking Applied to AI
- Andy Nunez has been in the Mid-Market ERP space since 1997, climbing the ranks for 11 years at NexTec Group, then 12 years at SWK. - He then served as CEO of Endpoint (formerly Scanco) for 4 years, so I think we can officially call him a seasoned executive at this point. - Not many people can...
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EP 183: Ralph Torres - Acumatica Deployment with 15 Operational Companies
- There is no “easy button” when it comes to implementing ERP in an organization with 15 Operational Companies (not just Financial Companies) - But hopefully this episode can make it a little easier as we learn from Ralph’s battle scars. - How did you align on a common Chart of Accounts across…
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EP 182: Ryan Goodman - DataTools Pro Blueprint for BI and AI
- Ryan has spent 20 years building analytics systems that people actually trust. The last 3 years taught Ryan what happens when you put AI on top of a strong BI foundation. - Most AI deployments fail before they start because the data underneath it is ambiguous, inconsistent, and disconnected…
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EP 181: Jim Wrubel - Surfacing the Right Info at the Right Time
- Jim and Tim haven’t met yet, but Jim was tagged on a LinkedIn post by someone that Tim respects. - Jim comes from the Marketing world and has a product that helps companies get discovered by LLM tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. - What does Marketing have to do with ERP? It’s all about...
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EP 180: Aleks Iwan - Using n8n in combination with Acumatica
- There are 2 main ways to build something that interacts with an ERP: - 1. Build within the ERP framework - 2. Build outside and interact with APIs - #2 is what we’d like to talk about on this episode - When you build outside, you then need a way to schedule what you built and be able to handle...
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EP 176: Rahul Gedupudi - Buying and Selling Online
- Managing multiple eCommerce sites (website, Amazon, Shopify, etc.) with your ERP is trickier than you might think - Lessons learned from over 20 years in this space and how Artificial Intelligence is making an impact - What does a modern enterprise ERP / eCommerce technology stack look like in...
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EP 175: Kaden Webb - Differential Refresh over OData for Generic Inquiries
- My favorite feature in Acumatica is the ability to connect directly to the data in a Generic Inquiry over OData - It's my favorite feature because both Microsoft Excel and Power BI understand OData so you can design reports that are refreshable at the click of a button instead of having to…
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EP 174: Hello ErpSeal.com and goodbye to AugForums.com
- Just me this episode so this will be a shorter one - Earlier this week I posted a lenghty explanation about moving AugForums.com to read-only mode - And transitioning to focus on ErpSeal.com - This Podcast also moves to ErpSeal.com - I’m not restarting the Podcast episode numbers, just…
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EP 173: Tejas Nerurkar - ERP Process Documentation and AI Impact
- Documenting your business processes is something that we all know we should do, but, if we’re honest, usually we don’t :) - Tejas has been in the business process documentation game for decades so I’m sure he’s got some stories - Let’s talk about the importance of documenting business processes…
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EP 172: Creating GIs and Business Events in Acumatica with AI
- Way too much talk about Artificial Intelligence these days, but most of the talk is hype or smoke and mirrors. What about actually doing something? - Let’s talk with Joe and Serge about using AI to do something practical: create Generic Inquiries and Businesss Events in Acumatica using AI - Joe...
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EP 171: Automating Acumatica Sales Orders with Artificial Intelligence
- Let’s hear from an Ann Olson and the team from Showdown Displays that used Azure Document Intelligence to automate the entry of Purchase Order Documents into the Sales Orders screen in Acumatica - What is the tech stack? How well does it work in the real world? Did employees who used to…
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EP 170: Unboxing AI Assistant in Acumatica 2026 R1
- We've seen the AI Assistant demoed for over a year now and it definitely generated a lot of buzz. - It finally released officially in Acumatica 2026 R1. - Tim just got access to it last week and decided that it would be fun to tinker with it live on an episode broadcast because it's always more...
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EP 169: Laura Jaffe - Unlocking Acumatica Report Designer
- Laura is one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet about Acumatica Report Designer - Laura is doing an Acumatica Community Webinar 09:00am - 10:00am Pacific Time on April 21, 2026 - In this episode, I’m going to pick Laura’s brain about what she’s planning to present - This will be a...
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EP 168: Joe DiPaolo - Hosted Acumatica and Joe’s Jr. AI Developers
- Joe’s company brought Acumatica on-prem, despite it costing the same price as SaaS. Let’s learn about why. - Let’s also learn about Joe’s Jr. AI Developers that he “hired” in January. How’s that going? - Joe is VERY security conscious and yet he’s running OpenClaw for his AI Agents. How’s that...
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EP 167: Nicole Ronchetti - A Claude Skill for Acumatica ERP
- Deep context on Acumatica's data access layer (DACs, BQL, PXProjection, PXGraph) - Authoritative SQL view patterns for GI-backed reporting - Version-specific field mappings across 25R1, 25R2, and 26R1 - Known gotchas from real client deployments (virtual fields, phantom rows, multi-tenant…
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EP 166: Tim uses ChatGPT and Claude to build something cool
Tim was an “AI Curmudgeon” since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, thinking it was overhyped. But Tim finally dove head first into AI in January 2026 and has been “drinking from the firehose” ever since. This episode walks through something that I built in real life last weekend using AI. This...
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EP 165: Jake Wells - EOS Scorecard and Acumatica Dashboards
Has anyone ever asked you to create a Dashboard for them in Acumatica? Then you ask them what they'd like to see on it and they give you a blank stare? The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) has a lot of guidance in this area about what KPIs matter in an organization. EOS Implementer Jake…
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EP 164: Phil Steichen - Vibe Coding your own Business Intelligence tool
Artificial Intelligence is improving so fast that it's hard to keep up. AI is not good at doing everything, but one thing that it's really good at doing is coding. People who aren't developers have been creating all sorts of interesting things with AI. Phil is going to show us how he used AI to...
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EP 163: Daryl Bowman - Dissecting the new Acumatica Calendar Board
When Tim saw Mik C. demo the Calendar Board in the new Acumatica UI, Tim thought, “hey, that looks like a scheduling engine that could be used in other areas, not just a Field Service screen”. Daryl has been getting into the weeds and is finding that to be the case. Let’s dive into the tech…
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EP 162: Gabriel Michaud - Catching up on new cool stuff in Velixo and Excel
Gabriel did a session at Acumatica Summit 2026 last week where he showed new Excel templates for construction, best practices for Dashboards, a redesigned Query Builder for no-code data exploration, and new AI features that speed up reporting work. I really wanted to attend, but wasn't able to…
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EP 161: Arline Welty - Evaluate Acumatica with YOUR DATA before you buy
Would you like to demystify the Acumatica ERP buying experience? Arline will break down how Stellar One allows companies to explore Acumatica, risk-free, in an environment that includes their own data pulled from their existing system. THEN they decide if they want to buy. We'll talk about moving...
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EP 160: How long does it take an Automation Schedule to run in Acumatica
The VIEW HISTORY button on the Automation Schedules (SM205020) screen in Acumatica will show you the Execution Date and the Execution Result, but it won't show you how long it took to run. I'd like to show you an idea for how you can see how long the Automation Schedule took to run. #Acumatica…
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EP 159: Mark Safran - Smartsheet Dashboards with Acumatica data
Until meeting Mark at the Acumatica User Group in New Jersey on September 10, I always thought of Smartsheet as a data capture tool, not a reporting tool. But Mark told me how he uses Smartsheet as a reporting tool, feeding it with Acumatica data. That sounded interesting so let's take a look at...
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EP 158: Garrett Rochell - Acumatica Upgades, especially with the Modern UI
An “always current” Cloup ERP is a great idea in theory, but the reality is that you have to go through upgrades. And upgrades require prepration. So let’s talk about Acumatica Upgrades in the real world with Garrett Rochell #Acumatica #ERP #CloudERP
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EP 157: acuCONNECT 2025 Preparation - Part 4
This is the final part in my preparation Podcast series for acuCONNECT 2025. Let’s wrap this thing up. acuCONNECT 2025 will take place Thursday, September 18 - Friday, September 19 #Acumatica #ERP #CloudERP
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EP 156: acuCONNECT 2025 Preparation - Part 3
acuCONNECT 2025 will take place Thursday, September 18 - Friday, September 19 I’m using this live broadcast to document what I’m building, which will be presented during acuCONNECT 2025. In Part 3, let’s continue from where we left off in Part 2, finishing off the Service Level calculation and…
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EP 155: Chris Hackett - Update on Acumatica User Groups
Chris and I last talked on the Podcast back in February 2022 on Episode #69, about 5 months after he started at Acumatica in the role of Community Manager. A lot has changed since then so I’m looking forward to getting an update on what Chris has been up to, specifically related to Acumatica User...
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EP 154: acuCONNECT 2025 Preparation - Part 2
acuCONNECT 2025 will take place Thursday, September 18 - Friday, September 19 I’m using this live broadcast to document what I’m building, which will be presented during acuCONNECT 2025. In Part 1, I laid out why I’m using a live stream to document the prep work and then I showed what I’m trying…
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EP 153: acuCONNECT 2025 Preparation - Part 1
acuCONNECT 2025 will take place Thursday, September 18 - Friday, September 19. This year I’m going to present how to build a report that shows how your Inventory Service Level (Qty Shipped / Qty Ordered) compares to your Inventory Value (Total $). I thought it would be fun to prepare for this on…
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EP 152: Offline Time Entry Mobile App for Acumatica
I met Rob Griffin at the Acumatica Summit 2025 Hackathon in Las Vegas and, while we were chatting, he mentioned that his company built an offline time entry mobile app for Acumatica. That's a big difference from the regular Acumatica Mobile App which does not work offline. So, I thought I'd see…
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EP 151: Live from the Acumatica User Group in Atlanta
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode151
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EP 148: John Buettler – From Machinist to ERP
#Acumatica Podcast Related Links and Guest Info: https://www.augforums.com/episode148 Official mobile app for offline listening: https://www.augforums.com/podcast 0:00 Introduction
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EP 150: Neil Cantral – Handling Tariffs in Acumatica
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode150
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EP 149: David Edmonson – ERP Rescue Projects and Integration Work
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode149
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EP 148: John Buettler - From Machinist to ERP
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode148
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EP 147: Dissecting the Winning Acumatica Hackathon Project
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode147
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EP 146: Acumatica Summit 2025 Postgame Show
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode146
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EP 145: Interviews from Acumatica Hackathon 2025
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode145
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EP 144: (Live) Andrew Pistorius – Acumatica No Code Timeclock Solution
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode144
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EP 143: Fabrice Henrion – Tim Learns About Odoo
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode143
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EP 142: Matthew Hensley – An Acumatica Customer Story
Related Links and Guest Info can be found at https://www.augforums.com/episode142
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Mid-Market ERP systems cater to companies that are doing $10M-$500M USD in Annual Revenue.Companies that are too small for Mid-Market ERP are typically running on QuickBooks in the United States or similar applications in other countries.Companies that are too large for Mid-Market ERP are typically running something like SAP, Oracle, Workday, or one of a dozen or so other products.Mid-Market ERP sits in the middle, with dozens of products serving the space, but the types of companies in this space deal with very similar challenges.Let’s talk about those challenges and explore technology solutions.
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