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Dear Friend,

Here's the latest update on FBS software development and how that affects your current 11.4 upgrade and your future software capabilities.

  • The Mutual Agricultural Software Alliance (MASA) was launched in March and now has 20 partners that are helping fund development and direct priorities. Click here to watch a video presentation from the FBS Ag Software Success Summit.

  • In partnership with MASA, we have more than doubled our development team led by Dr. Martin Traviolia and are working on an ambitious project to thoroughly modernize the FBS integrated software platform. Click here watch a video describing where we're heading at the FBS Ag Software Success Summit.

FBS Development Team
The FBS Development Team--Michael, Donald, Martin, David, and Greg--apply a century of programming experience to upgrading your software.
  • MASA members will benefit by receiving a full ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) on an open, high-performance, SQL Server database. FBS users who are qualified investors can convert to MASA. 
     
  • Conventional FBS users will also benefit by receiving a refreshed user interface, faster performance and full support of Windows 8 and 10 features under a Microsoft .NET code base.

  • Whether you become a MASA owner or remain an FBS user you’ll be part of a world class sustainable, expandable and open integrated financial platform.

  • In order to accomplish these sweeping objectives, we’ve changed our development tempo from releasing frequent maintenance updates to annual major upgrades.

  • Therefore, we’re postponing shipment of our Version 11.4 upgrade until the first quarter of 2020.   

  • Because our Version 11 series software has been commercial for four years and very stable we will be releasing only mission-critical patches/updates between major version upgrades.

  • As a result of these changes, you now have three options for maintaining your software license:

    • Wait for your FBS 2020-21 renewal notice in May.
    • Lock in your FBS 2020-21 renewal by December 31 and save 10%.
    • Become a member of MASA.

We’ll be happy to discuss these alternatives.  Call us at 800.437.7638 or email sale@fbssystems.com.  Thank you for your patience and understanding!

Best regards,

Norm Brown
President, FBS Systems, Inc.
and MASA Board Member