In the News - July 20, 2021

In the news today, find out about new Acumatica integrations, home building growth, and a tool kit to offer your non-profit clients.

Acumatica's annual summit began yesterday with announcements of new significant integrations. The new Adobe Document Cloud integration allows customers to annotate, highlight, comment on PDFs and save updated versions all inside Acumatica. The Microsoft Teams integration allows customers to initiate chat and calls in Teams within the Acumatica platform. 

Homebuilding reached 1.6 new homes started in June, not as high as March, but still another strong month following the pandemic. Residential construction clients may be seeing significant growth both in single family and multi-family starts. However, according to Nancy Vanden Houten, Lead Economist at Oxford Economics, "Builders continue to face supply constraints that may hamper or at least postpone construction." 

Blackbaud is providing a free Giving Tuesday toolkit. This 43-page toolkit provides a tips, samples, worksheets, and an extensive checklist for actions your non-profits will need to take in the months leading up to, during and after Giving Tuesday.