The Townsend Report

This week my company Sylogist announced the acquisition of pavliks.com and The Portal Connector .  I'm excited about this news, because I have known about pavliks.com for a long time and InfoStrat is a partner for The Portal Connector.  Yes, you are reading correctly that Sylogist has closed two new acquisitions in the space of a week.  pavliks.com has been in business for 52 years.  You can learn more from their company  timeline .  As you might expect, their offering has changed over time.  Today the three principal offerings are managed infrastructure services, professional services for implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365, and their unique product offering called The Portal Connector.  It's The Portal Connector (TPC) that made me aware of pavliks.com in the first place.  The Portal Connector provides a full content management system for portals which integrate with Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Power Apps.  We are using TPC for our clients and were always impressed with the pro

Last week our company  Sylogist  announced the acquisition of  Mission CRM , a leader in Microsoft Dynamics 365 / Power Apps solutions for nonprofits.  This is big news for us and for the nonprofit sector.  Mission CRM built a SaaS fundraising and engagement platform architecture and mindset.  They were one of the first to embrace the vision of Microsoft’s Tech for Social Impact   organization which called for industry standards of compatibility and interoperability as well as working solutions geared toward the needs of nonprofits.  Microsoft partnered with Mission CRM in development of the Common Data Model ("CDM") for nonprofits and in developing the  Fundraising and Engagement solution , based on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise.   The Mission CRM solution takes advantage of the Microsoft platform and provides seamless constituent engagement, online fundraising and campaign pages, event management, peer-to-peer fundraising, donation processing, funds distributi