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Airnet And LBMC Team Up

Monday, August 24, 2009

Airnet has teamed with LBMC Technologies to implement Microsoft Dynamics™ GP to support their explosive growth.


Joe McCall, Airnet’s chief financial officer, said, “We offer a suite of technology products to our clients and require a solution to help us manage our growth. Teaming with LBMC Technologies to implement an ERP business system will automate our business processes and provide key information to enable timely business decisions.”

Jeff Averbeck, president of Airnet, said that much of their growth comes from the success of data center services area of disaster recovery and virtualization plus their award winning email messaging product lines, smartCommunicator.

Smartcommunicator is a high-performance broadcast email engine using a variety of delivery vehicles tied to data feedback loops. The service allows customers to efficiently and effectively communicate with their clients and customers utilizing email.


Stacy Schuettler, managing partner for LBMC Technologies, said, “We are thrilled to team with Airnet. Much like LBMC, Airnet supports their local community in many ways. We look forward to adding business systems solutions to help support their tremendous growth. We are also discussing solutions Airnet offers to support our managed services offering.

LBMC is the largest regional accounting and financial services family of companies based in Tennessee. LBMC Technologies is a managed Microsoft partner with over 55 employees. The team includes project managers, business system consultants, business analysts and network engineers. The group has three offices, located in Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga. LBMC is recognized as a solutions leader in accounting, tax, audit, consulting, human resources, staffing and technology.


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