Inc 5000 2017: Number of Microsoft Dynamics partners doubles

By:  Dann Anthony Maurno

Inc. Magazine has released its Inc. 5000 2017 list, its annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies operating in the US.

Last year we counted nine Microsoft Dynamics channel partners; this year, double that at eighteen (see below for a full list). We have elected to list them in order of revenue here, rather than rank.

The Inc. 5000 criteria include:

• Being privately owned and based in the US
• Independent (versus subsidiaries or divisions)
• Revenue of no less than $2 M in 2016
• Having started earning revenue by March 31, 2013

The list ranks by three-year revenue growth, with #1 Skillz (a mobile gaming platform) charting 50,059 percent over three years. Tops among the Dynamics partners (a more mature and less meteoric market than gaming) was Sana Commerce (685 percent), followed by HighJump (375 percent), Stoneridge Software (365), TimeXtender (318) and ClickDimensions (290) rounding out the top five.

The list uses three-year-growth and revenue as its sole criteria; but a quick calculation of income per employee among Dynamics partners also provides an interesting metric. Here are the top five:

• SBS Group (MSDW Profile), $0.30 M (155 employees)
• Technology Management Concepts, $0.28 M (24 employees)
• Net@Work, $0.26 M (185 employees)
• Fine Solutions, $0.24 M (42 employees)
• HighJump, $0.22 M (791 employees)

Thus, Technology Management Concepts, a Dynamics VAR and implementer, qualifies as a small and nimble PT boat of a company; as does fellow reseller Fine Solutions.

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2017 Inc. 5000 Dynamics Channel Partners, by revenue

HighJump

• 2016 Revenue: $174.8 M
• 3-Year Growth: 375%
• Employees: 791

Tribridge (MSDW Profile)

• 2016 Revenue: $167.4 M
• 3-Year Growth: 50%
• Employees: 800
• Read our Executive Q&A with Tribridge VP Josh Jaquish on the cloud-friendly public sector vertical

Sikich

• 2016 Revenue: $146.5 M
• 3-Year Growth: 47%
• Employees: 750

AvidXchange (MSDW Profile)

• 2016 Revenue: $64.9 M
• 3-Year Growth: 265%
• Employees: 850
• Hear AvidXchange VP Henry Ijams on the top five myths of AP automation for Microsoft Dynamics

Net@Work

• 2016 Revenue: $47.4 M
• 3-Year Growth: 51%
• Employees: 185

SBS Group

• 2016 Revenue: $46.7 M
• 3-Year Growth: 84%
• Employees: 155
• Read SBS CEO James Bowman’s advice on navigating the fast-moving Dynamics highway

ClickDimensions

• 2016 Revenue: $22.7 M
• 3-Year Growth: 290%
• Employees: 155

Cargas Systems

• 2016 Revenue $15 million
• 3 Year Growth 74.15%
• Employees: 100

Crestwood Associates

• 2016 Revenue: $13.9 M
• 3-Year Growth: 56%
• Employees: 67

Stoneridge Software

• 2016 Revenue: $13.6 M
• 3-Year Growth: 365%
• Employees: 70
• Read Stoneridge CEO Eric Newell’s take on Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 migrations

Fine Solutions

• 2016 Revenue: $10.2 M
• Employees: 42
• 3-Year Growth: 61%

Efima

• 2015 Revenue: $8.5 M/€7.2 M
• 3-Year Growth: 189%
• Employees: 56

Turnkey Technologies

• 2016 Revenue: $8.5 M
• 3-Year Growth: 66%
• Employees: 43

Sana Commerce

• 2015 Revenue: $8.1 M/€6.9 M
• 3-Year Growth: 685%
• Employees: 125
• Read our April 2017 Executive Q&A with Sana Commerce CEO Michiel Schipperus

eMazzanti Technologies

• 2016 Revenue: $7.6 M
• 3-Year Growth: 49%
• Employees: 40

TimeXtender

• 2015 Revenue: $7.3 M/€6.2 M
• 3-Year Growth: 318%
• Employees: 37

Technology Management Concepts

• 2016 Revenue: $6.6 M
• 3-Year Growth: 56%
• Employees: 24

Dynamics Resources

• 2016 Revenue: $4.5 M
• 3-Year Growth: 153%
• Employees: 28