Plante Moran: Boxed In

Accounting Technology,  September, 2006  

Tags: Great Plains Software

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Plante Moran got into the reselling business two years ago with the acquisition of another firm, Gleeson Sklar, that brought with it a Great Plains reselling practice. In June, the Michigan-based firm got out of the business by selling the reselling operation to the group's leader, Al Voss. That decision was largely driven by the squeeze that the firm found itself in regarding conflicts of interests.

"We found ourselves being conflicted out of a number of assignments on both sides of the coin," says Doug Wiescinski, Plante's partner- in-charge of the technology consulting and solutions group. Plante has provided evaluation and selection services for vertical market products. But it found that Microsoft, which ...