When a local hotel accounting software developer with a national presence acquired a surplus of tablet devices purchased to integrate with their time and attendance tool, the company quickly found a way to put them to good use.

M3 Accounting + Analytics, founded and headquartered in Gainesville, worked with academy founder and director Ava White of Ava White Academy on Thompson Bridge Road, and the M3 team delivered 100 shiny, new Samsung tablets to the school for children with learning disabilities. The tablets will be used for student research and assignments, as well as research and keyboarding activities.

M3 Accounting + Analytics is headquartered in Gainesville and employs more than 130 area professionals with accounting and technology expertise to develop an industry-standard hotel accounting software for more than 4,300 hotels in the United States.

The company was founded by Gainesville native and hotelier John McKibbon III and was the first to connect the internet and hotel accounting software nearly two decades ago.