Our Story

From a dining-room table to thirty years of getting ERP decisions right.

Two brands. One bench of ERP expertise — for choosing the right system, planning the rollout, and implementing it right the first time. Here's how three decades of Microsoft Dynamics work built the team about to sit across the table from you.

Sunrise Technologies · Volt Technologies · A Microsoft partnership since 1994

The Foundation · Sunrise Technologies

1994

Sunrise Technologies started in 1994, when John Pence — the former CIO of an apparel manufacturer — launched the firm from his dining-room table. He'd lived through what happens when a company gets the ERP decision wrong: the right budget behind the wrong system, or the right system with no real plan behind it. He built Sunrise to fix that upstream problem — a consultancy organized around getting the decision right, not just implementing whatever was sold.

From day one, Sunrise bet on Microsoft Dynamics — then Axapta, later Dynamics AX, today Dynamics 365 — as the platform patient enough to solve the messy, real-world problems of consumer brands, retailers, and manufacturers.

Honesty. Hard work. Be nice.

The early Sunrise project team — The early Sunrise team · Winston-Salem, NC

John Pence, founder of Sunrise Technologies — John Pence, Founder

John Pence in the Sunrise office — The Office

The Sunrise team during its growth years — The Team

Building the Bench · 2000

2003

In 2003, Sunrise joined the Microsoft Partner Network as a dedicated Dynamics reseller — the start of a partnership that still defines us today. We earned Microsoft Gold ERP competency, built the first Apparel & Footwear solution for Dynamics AX, and opened a Microsoft-certified development center in Xi'an, China.

Over the next two decades, Sunrise grew into a global Microsoft partner trusted with some of the largest, most complex ERP selections and implementations in retail, apparel, footwear, manufacturing, and distribution.

30+

years on Dynamics

480+

successful go-lives

350+

team, 3 continents

95%+

client retention

The Turning Point · Late 2010

Our work with global enterprises kept surfacing the same problem — just from the other direction.

Small and mid-sized businesses were outgrowing entry-level tools like QuickBooks, but the powerful ERP systems built for billion-dollar companies were too complex and too expensive for them to adopt.

Then Microsoft introduced Dynamics 365 Business Central — enterprise-grade capability, sized for a growing company to actually plan for and implement on its own timeline. The gap suddenly had a bridge.

Mason Whitaker, founder of Volt Technologies — Mason Whitaker, Founder of Volt Technologies

The Next Chapter · Volt Technologies

2019

The birth of Volt Technologies.

In 2019, John Pence and Mason Whitaker launched Volt Technologies together — built to bring Sunrise's enterprise-grade ERP selection and implementation process to the small and mid-sized market, powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

The idea was simple: give growing companies the same decision framework, the same implementation standards, and the same bench of talent that billion-dollar brands rely on — sized and priced for where they are today.

Enterprise expertise, right-sized.Sunrise's proven ERP selection and implementation methodology, applied to the SMB market.

Built on Business Central.Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as the core platform.

Scale with confidence.Streamlined operations without the cost or complexity of traditional tier-1 ERP.

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Same people. Same methodology. Same bench of expertise — sized to fit your business.

Where We Are Today

One partnership, two front doors — same bench, right-sized for the business in front of us.

And because the work doesn't end at go-live, both teams offer pay-as-you-go support — so you keep finding value in your ERP for the life of the system, not just the length of a contract.

The Sunrise Technologies team today — The Sunrise Team

The Volt Technologies team — The Volt Team

For Enterprise & Upper-Midmarket

A premier global Microsoft partner for retail, apparel, footwear, consumer products, manufacturing, and distribution — delivering Tier-1 supply chain, finance, and commerce planning and implementation on Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.

Best for complex, multi-brand, multi-channel operations that require a Tier 1 ERP at a tremendous value.

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For Midmarket & Growing Businesses

A top Microsoft Solutions Partner bringing enterprise-grade ERP selection and implementation, CRM, Azure, Power Platform, and AI-enabled workflows to small and mid-sized companies — built on Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Best for companies of any size that don't need the cost and complexity of a Tier 1 ERP.

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So you always get the right-sized team, and the right-sized plan, for the ERP decision in front of you.

Recognized by Microsoft — again and again.

INNER
CIRCLE

Microsoft Inner CircleTop 1% worldwide

GLOBAL

Global Partner of the YearFinance & Operations

U.S.

US Partner of the YearRetail & Consumer Goods

U.S.

US Partner of the YearCommerce

U.S.

US Partner of the YearCE / Sales

PARTNER

Microsoft Partner6 designations

Learn more about our Microsoft Inner Circle and Partner of the Year awards.

Trusted by teams that don't have room to guess.

"If we wanted to grow and become a global iconic brand, we had to change our ERP."

5.11 Tactical

"These projects only go as well as the team you get, and I think we had a really great team… I cannot overstate that enough."

Pacsun

"What really set Sunrise apart is that they understood the consumer product business so well. And how Dynamics 365 can be utilized to maximize it."

Allstar Innovations