VAI Cloud Honored as Bronze Stevie® Award Winner in 2025 American Business Awards®

Ronkonkoma, NY – April 24, 2025 – VAI Cloud LLC, a cloud solution provider and a subsidiary of leading ERP software developer, VAI, was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution category in The 23^rd Annual American Business Awards® today.

The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. 

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Tuesday, June 10.

More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leader of the Year, and App of the Year, among others.  VAI Cloud was nominated in the Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution category.

VAI Cloud is the primary platform for deploying VAI's S2K Enterprise Software Suite in the cloud, offering businesses high availability and built-in disaster recovery, without the complexity or high costs. Its infrastructure is built on multiple, fully synchronized data centers with redundant systems to ensure reliability. Designed to handle any workload required by S2K Enterprise, VAI Cloud scales effortlessly from small businesses to large enterprises. Users can easily scale resources and apply updates without any interruption or downtime.

More than 250 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners. Below is a selection of commentary provided by the judges.

• VAI Cloud provides a secure, flexible, and scalable platform for ERP applications, focusing on expert infrastructure management and disaster recovery.

• VAI Cloud shows impressive growth and a clear shift of their customer base to the cloud platform. The focus on scalability and security, especially with quantum-safe encryption, is commendable. 

• VAI Cloud PaaS demonstrates strong market adoption, scalability, and customer satisfaction.

• VAI Cloud PaaS offers a robust, scalable ERP solution, driving impressive market results with 15% year-over-year growth in deployments and a shift from 80% on-premises to 80% cloud adoption. VAI Cloud’s 2024 Stratus Award wins and Bronze Stevie® Award highlight industry recognition, while over 200 new enhancements, including AI-driven analytics and quantum-safe encryption, showcase technical advancement. VAI Cloud’s ability to handle demanding industries like food, pharmaceuticals, and hard goods with tailored ERP solutions adds significant value, especially in meeting FDA compliance and supply chain demands. 

• VAI Cloud’s nomination showcases its exceptional scalability, security, and industry expertise. With impressive growth, market recognition, and a seamless migration process, VAI Cloud stands out as a top-tier platform delivering outstanding customer satisfaction and performance.

• Customer satisfaction is impressive, with testimonials highlighting the platform’s ease of use, seamless access, and operational improvements. VAI Cloud is a highly effective and secure cloud ERP solution with strong growth prospects.

“Organizations across the United States continue to demonstrate resilience and innovation,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Miller. “The 2025 Stevie winners have helped drive that success through their innovation, persistence, and hard work. We congratulate all the winners in the 2025 ABAs and look forward to celebrating their achievements during our June 10 gala event in New York.”

“We are honored to be recognized with the Bronze Stevie® Award from the American Business Awards in the Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution category,” said Matthew Petito, Cloud and Infrastructure Account Executive at VAI Cloud. “This distinction underscores our continued commitment to innovation in cloud-based ERP solutions. Our clients are experiencing substantial benefits, including cost optimization, operational efficiency and enhanced scalability, by leveraging our technology. We remain dedicated to advancing the industry and enabling meaningful transformation for the organizations we serve.”

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2025 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.    

 About VAI Cloud LLC

VAI Cloud, LLC is a subsidiary of VAI, a leading independent mid-market ERP software developer renowned for its flexible solutions and ability to automate critical business functions for the distribution, manufacturing, retail, and service sectors. As the primary provider for cloud deployment of VAI’s Software Suite, S2K Enterprise, VAI Cloud enables businesses to have a disaster recovery plan and high availability in place without all the complexities and expense. VAI Cloud infrastructure spans multiple data centers with full synchronization between redundant systems. Customers in VAI Cloud can add additional resources and updates are done without the need for downtime. VAI Cloud is continuously updated with the latest security, devices, security software, and infrastructure technologies. For more information, visit www.vaicloud.net.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

Sponsors of The 2025 American Business Awards include HCLTech, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.