So long and Thanks for all the Fish!

Whichever company you go to, we will make sure Epicor acquires them, then your back!!!

In 2016 when Epicor was more of a closed eco-system, when you had only EUG and you couldn’t get into Yahoo Groups because Jose never approved anyone. All I had was emails for Erik Johnson, who has helped us resolve many E9 to E10 migration issues. He introduced me in an email to Bart, and I started bugging him right away at 100mi/hour.


Afterwards, I emailed Michael Fox and others to give him an EUG Account, and I shared all of the cool info Bart gave me w/ Jose, then E10Help came around and here we are.


I still wonder, why you were under a rock hiding prior to 2016. You are a great person, great leader, you always want to make the people around you better and the company you work for successful.

We need more like you, who get involved in the community, share some tech demos, and invite us to Yammer, Gives us Beta Test (just like you did w/ EFX). I think you realized if you win over the sys-admins, developers and the partners - you win the ERP War.

Your contributions to the community will be recorded forever in-time. One thing that many don’t know, we pester the crap out of Bart 24/7. He posts a friendly family dinner photo on facebook, and here comes @Chris_Conn and throws in a comment on the family photo “Hey Bart, how do you convert a Tableset to a Dataset” :smiley: (If you work for Epicor dont add Chris on facebook, add me)

Bart has been a GREAT listener (not sure if his wife agrees), hence Epicor Functions, and soon even proper Task Agent Async/Scheduling (after Jose complained that he always has 200k record stuck in Bpm Queue). When you are at an Epicor conference, you spend your time with the community! Overall, with Bart you could have deep-conversations that didnt always have to be scripted, funny that he always did finish the conversation with “Safe Harbor Statement”

He also always spoke highly about his team, and always gave proper credit. Now that I think about it, he never even used the word “I” it was always “its Israels fault:scream: (jk). I knew @Olga , @ivaldez, @Epic_Santiago, @Dmitry_Kashulin, @JeffLeBert, @pferrington etc from Bart praising them, before I knew them on the forums.

I know you will still be on the forums. Who knows, maybe after a year @JeffLeBert needs your help and you come back to Epicor. Oh and yes he brought many folks to the Forums.

PS: When I had MRP Issues, Erik, Stephen, Bart got me in touch with Raj Tapde. He was very helpful and spent about 3 weeks debugging MRP with me.

In a Nutshell Bart can be described in my book as LEGENDARY RARE EDITION - Thank you for making Epicor ERP better, the difference 10.1.400 to 10.2.500 is huge.


I think you should still make it 1 trip to Insights 2020. I am sure it wouldnt cost you anything besides travel. So we can give you a group hug.


Legend Back In The Days:

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