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QuickBooks online, or QuickBooks Online? Use Software on the web without using Web-based software There is a trend among software makers these days to more fully leverage the “power of the web”, and why wouldn’t they?  The Internet has become the way businesses and users get and stay connected, and Read More

QuickBooks and Dropbox? Yeah… no. Having your data available from anywhere is awesome.  Storing files in the cloud and being able to sync them with files on the computer is a great way to make sure the files are centrally available regardless of which machine you use to access them with.  Dropbox i Read More

Easy deployment in the cloud: What about users and applications? Businesses are migrating their systems to the cloud, it’s true.  Organizations of every size and type are taking advantage of the cost savings and flexibility introduced with cloud deployments and hosting services.  Rather than focusi Read More

The CPA for Small Business: Proactive, Responsive, and Helps Paint a Beautiful Picture I recently read an article on AccountingWeb, written by Doug Sleeter and describing the findings of a published report titled What SMBs Want from Their CPA.  The report is a summary of results from an annual stud Read More

Just Getting Started: Application Hosting for Small Business

Accessing software applications and data from a remote system isn’t new stuff.  Starting with telephone modems, acoustic couplers (those things you’d put the phone handset into so that the modem could “hear” the data), green screen AS Read More

Go Ahead and Shoot the Server:  End of Microsoft Small Business Server Inspires Cloud Adoption with Small Businesses Microsoft has made a decision to include more “cloud” capability in its offerings for small business, ending the life of the successful Small Business Server line and replacing it wi Read More

Keeping Up with Expectations: Buyer Satisfaction and the Customer Experience There used to be saying in business that the customer is always right and anything or everything should be done to make the customer happy, even if it includes throwing someone under a bus.  On the other hand, some profess Read More

Small NonProfits, Crummy Computers and the Cloud There are many benefits included in the “value proposition” for cloud computing models, but there are some hidden gems in terms of how these outsourced IT models can specifically and directly address one of the biggest problems facing many smaller no Read More

Turning a Product or Service into a Solution: the Value Add of a Reseller There is quite a bit of chatter on the web and among IT resellers about how opportunities to serve business customers are diminishing, yet business adoption of cloud computing, managed services, and mobile technologies is gro Read More

The Business Cloud: Hype versus Reality. There is no doubt that cloud and mobile computing models are driving technology adoption as well as changing the landscape of how consumers and businesses purchase and use IT.  Accompanying any great shift – which in this case is fueled not simply by cloud t Read More