

“Construction is definitely a vertical we will consider. Best’s main rival in the middle market, Microsoft Corp., has identified the construction/real estate industry as one of the vertical industries that it is considering aggressively pursuing under its new vertical development strategy.Softline Software has launched a program to recruit third-party vendors to develop construction industry applications that integrate into its BusinessVision accounting line.
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Reaching out to that space leads you to Timberline - they are dominant,” Best chief executive Ron Verni said shortly after the sales agreement was announced in mid-July.īest is already working on plans to expand Timberline’s reseller force by providing training on its products to resellers of other Best products. “One of the largest untapped vertical markets is construction. It added to their core technologies and increased the company’s customer bases by migrating users over from Best’s other applications, particularly its Peachtree line. In those cases, it bought sector-leading vendors Micro Information Products in nonprofit/government and the SalesLogix CRM developer Interact Commerce Corp. Best is poised to use the Timberline deal to become a much bigger force in the construction/real estate industry by replicating strategies that it has used in the nonprofit/government and customer relationship management sectors.
