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- Acumatica has been talking about building a Web-Based Report Designer product for years now, but it hasn’t happened yet - Well, Kaden built one, and it looks really good - Let’s take a look at it - This is a pilot episode of “Seal Tank”, something that Jeremy Potoka and I have talked about doing - Seal Tank is like a friendlier version of Shark Tank and we evaluate software that a developer built

- Most seasoned ERP consultants know that their most valuable skills are not “hard skills” (what boxes to check), but “soft skills” (knowing how to navigate a company through a scary ERP implementation) - And yet, most companies looking to hire consultants do so mostly based on the hard skills, drastically limiting their pool of potential candidates - Jeremy has instead hired inexperienced people and built their skills organically, bucking the trend - Let's learn about how Jeremy and his team do it ErpSeal - Mid-Market ERP Learning for Acumatica, Aptean, CMiC, Deltek, ECI, Epicor, IFS, Infor, Jonas, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, Oracle NetSuite, Plex, QAD, Rootstock, Sage, SAP, SYSPRO, Trimble, Viewpoint, and others

- 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 find out what Susan thinks and whether AI-native ERP is more than just an intriguing idea. ErpSeal - Mid-Market ERP Learning for Acumatica, Aptean, CMiC, Deltek, ECI, Epicor, IFS, Infor, Jonas, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, Oracle NetSuite, Plex, QAD, Rootstock, Sage, SAP, SYSPRO, Trimble, Viewpoint, and others

- 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 - AcuLens aims to give Acumatica VARs better visibility into their client’s telemetry ErpSeal - Mid-Market ERP Learning for Acumatica, Aptean, CMiC, Deltek, ECI, Epicor, IFS, Infor, Jonas, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, Oracle NetSuite, Plex, QAD, Rootstock, Sage, SAP, SYSPRO, Trimble, Viewpoint, and others

- 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 bunch of questions like, “does Microsoft have their own LLM or is it just OpenAI or Anthropic under the hood”? - Daniel Amaro is the perfect person to ask... ErpSeal - Mid-Market ERP Learning for Acumatica, Aptean, CMiC, Deltek, ECI, Epicor, IFS, Infor, Jonas, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, Oracle NetSuite, Plex, QAD, Rootstock, Sage, SAP, SYSPRO, Trimble, Viewpoint, and others

- 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 it’s more of a supplemental thing? - Let’s find out... ErpSeal - Mid-Market ERP Learning for Acumatica, Aptean, CMiC, Deltek, ECI, Epicor, IFS, Infor, Jonas, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, Oracle NetSuite, Plex, QAD, Rootstock, Sage, SAP, SYSPRO, Trimble, Viewpoint, and others

- 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 grids in Acumatica, providing the ability to define line level color coding rules without writing code - Let’s take a look ErpSeal - Mid-Market ERP Learning for Acumatica, Aptean, CMiC, Deltek, ECI, Epicor, IFS, Infor, Jonas, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, Oracle NetSuite, Plex, QAD, Rootstock, Sage, SAP, SYSPRO, Trimble, Viewpoint, and others

- 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 to integrate AI into their services. - Is AI an easy thing for the ERP crowd to adopt or are there lessons that we need to learn first? ErpSeal - Mid-Market ERP Learning for Acumatica, Aptean, CMiC, Deltek, ECI, Epicor, IFS, Infor, Jonas, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, Oracle NetSuite, Plex, QAD, Rootstock, Sage, SAP, SYSPRO, Trimble, Viewpoint, and others

- 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 think strategically like an executive while simultaneously applying tech to real-world problems. Andy is one of those people. - Let's find out what he's up to these days with AI.

- 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 the business? Got reporting tips & tricks? - I’ve got a bunch of questions like that for Ralph

- 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 from how decisions are made. - So Ryan built the DataTools Pro AI Blueprint. - Let’s learn about Business Semantics and why that matters more than ever in an AI world.

- 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 getting the right information discovered at the right time, whether you’re going out to the public market to look for something or whether you’re looking for something in your internal ERP.

- 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 errors when what you built breaks at random times - I think that’s where n8n comes in, but I want to learn more about it from Aleks