Private investment firm improves disaster recovery, streamlines accounting with Acumatica
Private investment firm improves disaster recovery, streamlines accounting with Acumatica
2 PagesCASE STUDY WWW.ACUMATICA.COM • +1 888 228 8300 sales@acumatica.com WWW.ACUMATICA.COM • CS-01-47-1-20160210 © 2016 Acumatica SITUATION When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in October 2012, the basement of Seaport Capital’s lower Manhattan building flooded, shutting off electricity to the 29-story building and the company’s on-premises servers. “Our IT backup—also located in downtown New York City—was down as well,” said Stacy Troiano, then the company’s controller. “Our accounting software sat on our servers internally, so it wasn’t like we could plug in and access it online. And our computers were locked in the building.” Seaport’s office on the 27th floor didn’t flood, but the company lost access to its data for a week and had to operate by cell phone for two w
