Sunday, June 24, 2012

Computing and hosting with Quickbooks tax software.

By Rick Sturms


Accountants have had to stay at their desks up until now. The technological advances in Quickbooks hosting have made that headache a thing of the past. Hosting tax applications like Pro-series, Lacerte, ATX, Ultra Tax, Drake, etc. A managed service provider can provide you instant access to any of your files through any internet portal!

This multi user environment allows accountants the convenience and benefits of staying in touch with their staff and sharing files while working on them simultaneously without being limited by their geographic locations. Being able to find data and use apps from any place gives professionals secure remote access. Quality tax software can increase productivity while lowering costs.

Quickbooks and Cloud Computing can be and still is very confusing to many new users.

But for many other progressive accounting and bookkeeping firms, they are already working in the cloud and greatly enjoying the work and cost savings luxury of it.

We keep hearing it. Firms both large and small are cutting their fees. We are unable to agree to their quote.

CPAs can really offer more value for price services to the smaller firms looking for reducing their expenses and other costs by providing real time interactive services rather than the conventional means.

Please define the Cloud for us. Many people now use the term Cloud Computing to describe many varied technologies and services. Cloud computing is not new per'se. By using Web infrastructure the software applications are delivered where the client is a web browser, it simply means that.

A professional technology company will be a world class private cloud vendor. You get a premium IT service, far exceeding what you can contract for and deliver yourself. Cloud service providers thrive on up-time, so if their systems are down, they are in serious trouble. So these are true world class environments, running at 99% availability with very minimal maintenance windows. There are auditing standards for service providers, specifically SAS 70 Type II audits, that give you external assurance. They all run 24/7. Even if your application goes down on a holiday or weekend, your IT guy will be there to help. All those issues go away.

Small businesses will often realize a far higher ROI with cloud hosted and SaaS applications. This is in part due to the obvious IT cost elimination. Part of it is that SaaS applications are feature rich, written relatively recently with the knowledge of the past. Some of it includes costs you may not consider right away. An upgrade for Saas hosted software apps is free. Advanced versions of application are automatically updated.

Accountants, CFO's or company owners should look to cloud based or SaaS applications to take over from their current accounting systems. Communicating with Cloud9 Real Time can enhance your business trends while simultaneously reducing job related stress.

In Conclusion: Its easy to throw the word Cloud around and there are a lot of companies that offer Cloud services. Meeting a client's specific need of give them a specialized product that brands their company as well as an all in one virtual office solution is often the most challenging problem. Accountants should keep in mind features like security, adaptability and expertise in accounting technology before choosing a vendor Although the benefits of the Cloud are easy to see, the timing and selection of who to provide those services is much more complex.

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