From the Hawaii Tribune-Herald:

Koa Hills Consulting, a Big Island-based company, is hosting a cloud technology event today in Kailua-Kona featuring Google and Acumatica, two premier cloud solutions.

Representatives from Google and Acumatica will demonstrate how organizations can leverage cloud-based systems to save money and run more efficiently. Acumatica will demonstrate their financial accounting solution including how to build dashboards and base decisions on real-time information.

Google will introduce Google Apps, a suite of collaboration tools which includes email, document-sharing, chat and video functionality. There will also be a Google Chromebook lab, where users can get hands-on experience with the communication tools.

Koa Hills Consulting, an authorized Google Apps reseller and Acumatica partner, is sponsoring the free event to introduce Hawaii business, government and education organizations to the benefits found by leveraging cloud-based technology. Read the full story.

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—Chad Blair