NSA BLOG

Our Business Partners come from companies small and large; from those that sell IBM to those that use it; from traditional resellers to new, born-in-the-cloud companies; from solutions architects to deployment experts. We make the partnership about you — first and always. Our benefits are the key to differentiating your business. We’re focused on providing you with the resources to help you help your clients thrive in the digital era. NSA and IBM are focused on providing customers with the resources to help you drive growth, enable innovation, and drive value.

Infor’s CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise is a comprehensive, scalable cloud solution designed for large, global wholesale distributors who are focused on growth, customer engagement, and have demands for extended services. It is a multi-site, multi-company, multi-currency, and multi-language solution with capabilities that encompass everything from inventory and warehouse management to financials, multi-channel sales orders, purchasing, value add, and more. Effortless use of up to 49 localizations and 24 languages, the solution provides the flexibility and scalability to easily take on new markets and quickly adapt to change.

As an Infor Alliance and Channel Partner, NSA has access to the most advanced distribution software on the market, along with the knowledge to customize and implement it to parallel every company’s individuality.

Since 2001, Tour de Force has evolved and grown as a robust software solution that drives manufacturers and distributors to be more efficient and more effective by providing a wide range of tools in customer relationship management, business intelligence, and sales force automation. For more information, visit www.tourdeforceinc.com

Infor Birst® automates the process of preparing data and adds an adaptive user experience for business users that works across any device. Birst’s unique networked analytics technology enables centralized and decentralized teams to work collaboratively by unifying IT-managed enterprise data with user-owned data.

EasyAsk is the industry-leading AI/Site Search, Navigation, and Merchandising solution for eCommerce. Some of the most successful businesses have integrated EasyAsk’s search technology into their platform, resulting in much higher revenue per search. EasyAsk uses A.I.-powered Natural Language technology to understand your customer’s queries no matter how they are phrased, driving more revenue, and even providing mobile voice searches from SmartPhones.

The EasyAsk Direct Program is designed to enhance today’s Infor Storefront solution while at the same time providing an innovative path forward for Storefront users. This will allow an enhanced Storefront for today and powerful new capabilities into the future. When the time is right EasyAsk also provides a seamless migration to EasyAsk’s NEXT GEN B2B Platform, EasyAskB2B. EasyAsk B2B is a new cutting edge AI/B2B solution designed for easy migration from Storefront.

Second Phase objective is to increase the success of distributors and manufacturers by empowering their digital transformation, market differentiation, and customer loyalty via advanced B2B/B2C eCommerce and mobile app solutions, the industry’s leading PIM, and an ongoing partnership aimed at client success. Our webstores are designed for and trusted by wholesalers that need to jump-start their B2B/B2C online ordering. We enable affordable, highly-configurable turnkey solutions and digital strategies that handle unlimited SKUs, seamlessly integrate with the industry’s leading ERPs, are mobile-optimized, and drive business growth.

Second Phase was chosen as the official eCommerce platform by the nation’s largest distributor buying group: IMARK Group (1500 distributors in electrical, plumbing, and HVAC). Finally, as a Billtrust owned solution, we are the only eCommerce platform that is an integral part of Billtrust’s full suite of A/R Automation tools to optimize the customer experience and business operations at all levels.

Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies. Akamai’s
intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers
and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure.

Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps, and experiences closer to users than anyone – and attacks and threats far away.

Customers often ask how Microsoft deploys its own technologies. What were the initial catalysts for change? The challenges? The benefits? You’ll find those answers here. Microsoft IT Showcase provides what no one else can—the inside story of how Microsoft does IT. By detailing how Microsoft rolls out technology solutions across its own enterprise environment, we will inspire and equip you with the resources to inform your most crucial IT business decisions.

We love to talk about IT. It’s our passion. And we’re armed with some of the best technical minds in the industry. Our IT experts know what they’re doing and pride themselves on digging in to get the most out of technology. Our entire platform is based on their knowledge and we’re better for it.

Our vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere — every person, every organization, and every community around the globe. This motivates us — inspires us — to do what we do. To make what we make. To invent, and to reinvent. To engineer experiences that amaze. We won’t stop pushing ahead, because you won’t stop pushing ahead. You’re reinventing how you work. How you play. How you live. With our technology, you’ll reinvent your world.

We created Unitrends MSP because we believe that Unitrends’ enterprise class business continuity and disaster recovery solutions are the best in the world and that every MSP could benefit from them. We’re proud of Unitrends’ 25+ years of experience in enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery, but we realize that the MSP market is unique. We put MSPs at the center of everything we do. From product to services to support, our business is designed around your business.

The integraSoft team has a rich heritage of building long term relationships with our customers. We’ve been doing it since 1972. It’s not uncommon for many of our customers to have a 20+ year relationship with integraSoft. But what is uncommon, is the fact that these long time customers have been working with the same integraSoft team members for most of those 20 years.

It’s all about innovation. The integraSoft team’s mission is to transform your business so that you can grow. Software innovation in our product offerings are the cornerstone of that mission. From mobile software solutions that empower your sales team to get the edge on your competition to online e-commerce store solutions that serve your customers 24/7, the integraSoft team is committed to continuous innovation in everything we do.

Green Cloud is one of the largest independent channel-only cloud IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) providers in the country, with data centers in Atlanta, GA, Greenville, SC, Houston, TX, Minneapolis, MN, Nashville, TN and Phoenix, AZ. Green Cloud also offers backup and disaster recovery solutions as well as DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service) to provide complete business solutions for large and small businesses. Green Cloud was ranked 73rd on Inc. Magazine’s 2016 Inc. 500, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies and was included in Inc. 5000 in 2017 and 2018.

We know that a proper security strategy must include networks, servers and devices—all devices—managed easily through the cloud. Sophos products allow you to secure every end point of your network, from laptops to virtual desktops and servers, to web and email traffic and mobile devices. What’s more, securing these devices is made possible through products that fit your precise needs. We can ensure your network’s security by providing the one thing no one else can: Single sourced simplicity.

Sophos began producing antivirus and encryption products nearly 30 years ago. Today Sophos products help secure the networks used by 100 million people in 150 countries and 100,000 businesses, including organizations such as Pixar, Under Armour, Xerox, Ford, Avis, and Toshiba. As IT networks grow in complexity, we wanted a solution for our clients that was focused on keeping IT security simple and reliable.

This remote monitoring and management tool provides our customers an “early warning system” on any issues that may arise on their systems: networks, servers, workstations or other devices with an IP Address. An alert is generated at the first sign of trouble, which affords us the ability to not only detect but often times remediate the issue remotely before it might lead to a more serious issue if left undetected. We can also automate many processes, such as alerting and then updating out of date applications. Clients that elect to use this solution experience fewer disruptions, quicker resolutions, and less downtime. Put Automate to work and watch the huge return as you experience a more stable IT environment with significantly reduced disruptions.

NSA has achieved the exclusive Enterprise Partner status with Datto. Over the last 3 years, the NSA team has partnered with Datto, recommending their offerings to many clients. NSA trusts and stands by the solutions Datto offers. Datto’s integrated suite of services include a hybrid on premise and cloud backup & disaster recovery offering, so that your systems are not reliant on a single backup location. This powerful solution is built upon an image-based design, meaning that the entire image of your systems are backed up, including: operating systems, applications, security, logins, passwords, data, routing paths, etc. This design results in a full recovery time of only minutes on a full restore. Datto also provides ransomware detection capabilities. Ransomware leaves a footprint when it is setting up pre-excryption file extensions. This unique capability empowers our clients with the ability to detect ransomware in progress, prior to encryption with restorations in many cases without any disruptions. This offering works for both windows and unix (Redhat Linux) environments and is a “must have” as a safety net from the exploding threats of ransomware.

There’s nothing simple about sales and use tax. Every step matters: calculating rates, filing returns, maintaining exemption certificates, keeping up with changing rates, and product taxability rules. And the more you grow, the more you owe. You need to be focused on your business, not on sales tax.  Avalara’s tax automation software is the fastest, most reliable way to accurately calculate, validate, and remit sales and use tax. Their tax solutions are used by tens of thousands of companies worldwide to complete millions of transactions every single day. Compliance doesn’t get better or easier than this.

✓ Calculate the right tax rate every time for every sale.

✓ Easily track, validate, and store exemption and resale certificates.

✓ Transfer tax data instantly for faster, easier returns filing.

Only Avalara offers seamless, automated end-to-end sales tax compliance solutions for your whole business.

UniLink has been transitioning corporations of all sizes from paper-based file handling and costly in-house electronic document systems to our universal EDI solutions for more than two decades.

Engagement with our customers is a top priority, so whether you are starting from scratch or have an existing EDI infrastructure, we build the solution around your requirements and provide responsive support whenever you need us. It’s our goal to make sure all transactions with your vendors and clients happen with more efficiency and higher accuracy, while occupying fewer internal resources.

In practice, we become your e-invoicing department, completing electronic delivery of invoices, POs, rebates, advance ship notices, and any other documents central to your business—at a significantly lower TCO than any other alternative that we have evaluated.

Working with UniLink, you benefit from:

• EDI expertise – Our customers don’t waste time learning to become EDI specialists. They express complete confidence in our abilities, knowing that any issue they encounter, we can solve.
• 100% EDI connectivity – Regardless of the file types used and the systems in place, UniLink universal EDI accepts and converts all electronic files to your native EDI format, or to human-readable versions if needed.

For an in-depth discussion about why UniLink is best choice to manage your EDI implementation, please contact us.

In an age when commerce moves at the ever-increasing pace of technology, most payment solutions fail to live up to the challenge. They lag woefully behind in terms of innovation, regulatory compliance, integration, automation, and, perhaps most importantly, determination. CenPOS is the exception.

Cenpos has created the industry’s most comprehensive and efficient payment solution—years beyond the competition. Yet they never cease to improve it with stunning new capabilities.

A CenPOS solution virtually eliminates fraud and human error. Compliance becomes an automatic no-brainer. Chargebacks fade into the past. They transform all payment channels into a single cloud-based solution that delivers secure, cost-effective, increased bottom-line performance while protecting our clients on every single transaction.

UnForm® is a platform-independent, completely browser-based software product that creates, delivers, stores, routes and retrieves documents and the information they contain. UnForm is a complete A to Z, End-to-End Document Management solution and can be deployed either on premise or in the cloud. The combination of print management, e-delivery, digital document archiving, image management, document data extraction, and role-based document workflows provides a return on investment that is second only to your ERP.

CirrusPrint is a platform-independent tool for Linux or Windows. It is a high performance wide-area network printing solution that works with business applications hosted in the cloud or in any company data center. CirrusPrint solves the issues encountered when printing from cloud-based applications. With CirrusPrint, you do not need to purchase e-mail capable printers or pay for routing data through unsecure 3rd party data centers and can eliminate the associated printing delays.

Billtrust accelerates the invoice-to-cash process through a cloud-based solution named Quantum. Quantum addresses the growing need for a single strategic solution that is flexible enough to meet the needs of businesses and their customers, while improving operational efficiencies, accelerating cash flow and increasing transparency. Quantum is comprised of five key areas: credit, invoice delivery, invoice payment, cash application and collections. This enables companies to accelerate the implementation timeline to achieve immediate results, lower A/R operating costs by over 35%, and reduce DSO between 3-9 days. We have hundreds of distribution customers that leverage our seamless integration and data exchange to Infor SX.e.

Powerful Business Intelligence tool designed for Distribution. Distribution is a complex business and in order to deliver real value, a deep understanding of supply chain operations and associated information systems is essential. Since 2009 MITS has been laser-focused on just that, with years of expertise in the data structures of leading ERP systems, and NSA has been the leading MITS reseller… both for the on-premise and hosted versions. MITS is packed with hundreds of pre-built tools developed exclusively for distributors, so our customers can be more productive from day one – something that’s not the case with generic analytics tools or even some packages targeted at these markets.

LeanSwift’s eCommerce integrator, eConnect, enables a secure, bi-directional signal that configures SX.e distribution portal with your Magento webstore. We bring together your people, processes, workflows and critical data to make systems work for your business, customers and build a foundation for growth.

LeanSwift is an Infor Alliance Partner and a global system integrator of Infor products and a vendor of NSA Computer Exchange Corp. LeanSwift has a global reach with a presence and operations in North America, Europe and Asia. Our value proposition is built on Infor consulting services for upgrades and implementations with a strong focus on integrating eCommerce and distribution systems and platform frameworks.

LeanSwift’s global team consists of highly-qualified Infor application consultants whose experience extends over 25 years. Our team consists of functional consultants, technical consultants and software engineers focused on eCommerce, distribution and mobile platforms. Our expansive experience within the distribution industry gives us a competitive advantage in knowing how the foundation and functionality of your framework and its applications can scale over time in an ever-changing market.

Insite Software is the leading provider of powerful digital commerce solutions architected for manufacturers and distributors. Insite goes beyond commerce to connect people, products and channels for rich, omnichannel experiences. Insite believes eCommerce is more than a website. It’s about driving transformational business outcomes. With more fully-supported, native B2B capabilities than any other platform in the marketplace, Insite delivers digital commerce without compromise.

Insite’s range of products includes InsiteCommerce®, InsitePortfolio®, InsiteCommerce™ Mobile App and InsiteAnalytics for eCommerce. InsiteConnect™ technology was designed to make integration into internal and external business systems like ERPs, PIMs and Payment Gateways easier through pre-established connections to the most common data points.

Founded in 2001, Phocas is a team of passionate professionals who are committed to helping people feel good about their data. Today we have grown to serve over 1,700 companies and roughly 30,000 people, who rely on our software to complement ERP functionality and manage business operations.

Our users love the tailored, industry-focused solutions that simplify data management through powerful analytics and visualization tools, and revolutionize the way they interact with their own information. Phocas specializes in data analytics for Infor distribution users. Solutions include business intelligence, rebates, financial statements, and CRM.

We develop and support customer businesses with software that is simple, elegant and can serve departments and roles throughout the organization. From day one, users get tracking and reporting on essential KPIs and metrics that are specific to role and industry.

Phocas changes the way people think and work, and makes it easier for them to be decisive and operate with confidence.