Dropping the accelerator on a disruptive cloud computing model in the midst of an economic downturn may not have been the smoothest path to growth, but when Tom Franceski and two partners acquired docSTAR in 2007 they understood the cloud  transformation path was the surest bet for a software firm in the digital age. Ten years later docSTAR is recently became part of Epicor Software, the fast-growing ERP contender, currently in the midst of its own cloud-computing transformation.