September 18, 2012
Intuit Goes Worldwide with QuickBooks Online Global
New features support all countries, currencies, taxes and accounting standards.
August 29, 2012
InFirm: Benefits of Hosted Solutions
The “Cloud” and hosted solutions continue to garner interest amongst accounting firms, but there is a lot of confusion about the types of hosting, available applications, and the overall reasons for firms to consider hosted solutions.
August 29, 2012
The Forecast is Cloudy – On-Premise Private Cloud, Hosted Cloud, SaaS and Apps
You need to be thinking about your clients, firm and the technology you use to serve those clients. Hardware, software, data, procedures and people all work together to transform data into information.
August 21, 2012
FreshBooks Moves Strategy from Online Invoicing to Cloud Accounting
The online accounting system now has more paying users than others except for QuickBooks Online.
July 2, 2012
Simplifying Online Document Management for Clients
Document management has come a long way over the past decade, at least for accounting firms. Although professionals often proudly wear their self-proclaimed skepticism of some technology, most firms are actually quite advanced, at least when comparing technology adoption to their small business clients. Unfortunately, in the new practice model and new economy, clients who...…
June 27, 2012
The Power of Collaboration: Will You Be Extinct?
All things in life change. It is inevitable that we evolve. Accounting solutions are no exception and as with everything else the web is forcing a new species to evolve while old ones become extinct.
June 1, 2012
Infinitely Virtual Selected as Intuit Host Provider
Deal allows clients to stream QuickBooks to the desktop via cloud hosting.
May 10, 2012
New Book ‘Together in the Cloud’ Offers Insight into Online Business Management
Professionals and business managers interested in learning more about the benefits of cloud computing should check out the new book by Robert J. Chandler, “Together in the Cloud,” which was releasedin late April. Chandler is the CEO of technology company Cloud9 Real Time and a long-time proponent of web-based business management technologies. In “Together in...…
April 9, 2012
Shoeboxed Joins CloudSolutions Alliance
Shoeboxed joins Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., XCM Solutions, SmartVault, FreshBooks and Avalara as part of the CloudSolutions Alliance.
March 30, 2012
MuleSoft Collaborates with Avalara on New iApp
MuleSoft, provider of application integration platforms, and Avalara have partnered together to create a new cloud integration application called Avalara iApp4Tax.
March 29, 2012
SaaS Takes Center Stage for Small Business Accounting
Online accounting products are a small but rapidly growing segment of business management tools. Real-time collaboration between client and accountant, as well as better importing tools have made these solutions a compelling alternative to traditional, locally-installed applications. We have noticed a large number of new offerings in this space over the last couple of years,...…
March 22, 2012
The Proof is in the Portal
As I evaluate the previous tax season, I honestly feel that it was one of the best ever for my firm—despite a few curve balls like the IRS allowing brokerage firms to delay delivery of 1099’s for nearly a month (talk about workload compression).