Armanino Consulting Client Earns Microsoft Dynamics® Industry Excellence Award

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Armanino Consulting is proud to announce that its customer Accuray Incorporated was recognized by Microsoft® with the 2012 Industry Excellence Award as part of the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Excellence Awards program. They were honored by Microsoft executives at an awards luncheon on Monday, March 19, 2012 at Convergence 2012 Houston, the premier Microsoft Dynamics user conference.

The 2012 Customer Excellence Awards, which are presented in 9 categories, recognize and celebrate Microsoft Dynamics customers that have achieved notable accomplishments using their Microsoft Dynamics solutions.

Accuray was recognized for its strong commitment to Industry Excellence. Working with Microsoft Dynamics Gold ERP certified partner, Armanino Consulting of San Ramon, Calif., Accuray:

• Improved operations to support business growth;
• Consolidated more than 18 disparate IT systems into a single integrated Dynamics AX platform; and
• Created a paperless environment for the regulated components of its manufacturing and service business lines.

"Microsoft Dynamics AX has given our company great sales and service support, both internally and for our customers," said Arul Daniel, Director of Enterprise Applications for Accuray.

Established in 1997, the Customer Excellence Awards are awarded each year at the Convergence user conference in the United States. Microsoft Dynamics partners and team members submit nominations. Judging teams for each of the categories rated nominations on category specific criteria. Proposed winners for each category were then presented and reviewed by a panel of Microsoft executive judges for final approval. As part of that final review, winning customers were chosen.

Microsoft Dynamics is a line of financial, customer relationship and supply chain management solutions that help businesses work more effectively.

About Armanino Consulting
Armanino Consulting, a key department of Armanino McKenna (www.amllp.com/consulting), provides comprehensive services to the CFO organization of fast growing companies, including Microsoft Dynamics Implementation services, CFO Advisory and Outsourcing services. The firm is the 35th-largest public accounting and business consulting firm in the nation. Armanino Consulting is one of the largest Microsoft Dynamics partners in the nation as a value-added reseller (VAR) and implementation partner for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Dynamics AX, and Dynamics GP. Additionally, the firm offers the Microsoft Dynamics AX for High Tech Industries™ Certified for Microsoft Dynamics (CfMD) solution. This product helps technology companies, including software & internet, semiconductor, medical device, pharmaceutical and electronics manufacturers, to empower their sales forces, cut costs and time-to-market, improve forecast accuracy, and manage distributor relationships and supply chains. As a Microsoft President's Club partner, Armanino Consulting is among the top 5% of partners in the country.

In addition to its San Ramon headquarters, the company has offices in San Francisco and San Jose, California; Portland, Oregon; and Bellevue, Washington.

About Accuray
Accuray Incorporated based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is the premier radiation oncology company that develops, manufactures and sells personalized innovative treatment solutions that set the standard of care, with the aim of helping patients live longer, better lives. The Company's leading edge technologies – the CyberKnife and TomoTherapy Systems – are designed to deliver radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiation therapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, image guided radiation therapy, and adaptive radiation therapy. To date, more than 300,000 patients worldwide have been treated using the Company's technologies and more than 616 systems have been installed in leading hospitals around the world. For more information, please visit www.accuray.com.

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SOURCE Armanino McKenna LLP