Rand Group

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About

Rand Group is a Houston-area business technology consulting firm headquartered in Texas, with its primary office at 440 Louisiana Street, Suite 900, Houston, TX 77002 and its corporate registration tied to Bellaire, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Ron Rand, who continues to serve as President and CEO, the company grew out of the technology consulting division of Hein & Associates LLP, where Rand previously led technology consulting. With roughly 160 employees (LinkedIn reports 51-200) and, following its combination with Toronto-based WebSan, an expanded North American footprint spanning Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Toronto, Tennessee, the Philippines, and 18 locations across the United States and Canada, Rand Group serves small, midsize, and large businesses across North America. The firm is best known as a Microsoft partner, named the 2025 Microsoft Americas Channel Emerging Partner of the Year and previously recognized in Microsoft's elite Dynamics Inner Circle, reserved for the top one percent of Dynamics partners worldwide. Its core practice is Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP - Finance and Operations (Finance, Supply Chain Management, Project Operations), Business Central - plus Dynamics 365 CRM (Sales, Customer Service, Field Service), Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Azure, and AI and Copilot-driven automation. In 2017 it broadened into multi-platform delivery by joining the Oracle NetSuite Solution Provider program, and it is also a Sage partner (Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage CRM, Sage Data and Analytics), ranking among the top one percent of Sage partners in North America. Beyond ERP and CRM implementations, Rand Group offers unbiased software evaluation and selection, integrations and customizations, cloud migration, reporting and analytics (Power BI, insightsoftware Jet Reports and Jet Analytics, Solver), backup and recovery, managed services, rescue-and-recovery engagements for failed implementations, and ongoing optimization and support. The firm claims a 90 percent-plus client retention rate and reports more than two decades of service. It repeatedly appears in Accounting Today's Top 100 VAR listing. Industries served include manufacturing (including process manufacturing), distribution, construction, oil and gas and energy, professional services, healthcare, food and beverage, nonprofit, and financial services - with particular depth in oil and gas, manufacturing, distribution, and construction across Texas and the South Central United States. Differentiators include deep accounting-rooted consulting, with many CPAs on staff and a licensed-CPA CEO, which lends credibility to finance-led ERP projects; unbiased multi-platform selection across Microsoft, NetSuite, and Sage rather than single-vendor lock-in; in-house delivery teams in the United States and Canada rather than outsourced contractors; and an emerging technology arm that has published 50 Business Central apps on Microsoft Marketplace with training resources. Buyer notes: confirm whether the engagement team will be fully in-house or will include partner resources; validate the 90 percent-plus retention claim and request recent client references in your industry; ask for fixed-scope implementation estimates and post-go-live support terms; and for legacy Dynamics GP, NAV, or AX systems, confirm migration roadmaps to Dynamics 365 or NetSuite. Texas buyers get strong local delivery in Houston and Dallas; buyers outside Texas should confirm on-site coverage and travel expectations before signing.