Ronkonkoma, N.Y. — May 3, 2023 — VAI Cloud, LLC, a subsidiary of VAI, a leading ERP software developer, was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Best Platform as a Service category in the 21st Annual American Business Awards® today. As a subsidiary of the leading ERP provider VAI, the cloud platform was recognized for its innovative capabilities and benefits for customers hosting their ERP workloads in VAI Cloud.

Since 2009, VAI Cloud has provided a highly secure cloud platform running completely on VAI’s infrastructure, helping to maintain and support S2K Enterprise ERP applications on behalf of customers across hard goods, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage distribution, among other industries. With VAI Cloud, enterprises can increase scale, gain high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) capabilities across VAI Cloud’s data centers, reduce operational costs, and more. Customers come to VAI to utilize ERP applications that improve business processes and trust that their data workloads are securely stored and managed in VAI Cloud.

“We are honored to be recognized as the BRONZE winner of Best Platform as a Service at the 2023 American Business Awards,” said Kevin Beasley, CIO at VAI. “We’re committed to ensuring our VAI Cloud platform continuously provides the most secure and innovative environment for our customers, and we’re pleased to see the judges recognize this.”

Judges recognized VAI Cloud for offering “a highly secure cloud platform running completely on VAI's infrastructure, providing businesses with numerous benefits such as flexibility, scalability, improved security, disaster recovery, and more. The fact that VAI controls responsibility for all aspects of the infrastructure such as security, hardware set-up, software, and firmware upgrading, maintaining, and supporting the S2K Enterprise ERP applications, provides customers with peace of mind.”

The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.  Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Tuesday, June 13. More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2023 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.