E-mail Security & Hosting

In this guide, you’ll learn about the advantages cloud accounting offers over traditional software. You’ll also learn how data is kept secure and which tools are best for moving your clients into the cloud.

Email has been around a long time and has evolved into a mission-critical resource to deliver documents and communicate with clients. It’s the default for most businesses — convenient, easy and mature — and has all but replaced time-consuming faxing and manual delivery of documents. However, while email has been a trusted delivery tool for […]

One of the ways successful firms are continuing to grow during the current economic downturn is by finding new and existing clients with targeted, personalized service. Large firms have used customer relationship management (CRM) and contact management systems for years to manage sales activities, track correspondence, and log contact with current and prospective customers, but these systems are frequently not used by small firms that don’t have dedicated marketing departments.

Whether using an online service for general data backup and recovery purposes, or using other paperless document utilities, such as online document management systems or workflow productivity tools, there are several security issues that users should be aware of.

If you are like most accountants, email has become one of the primary tools utilized to communicate with clients, internal firm personnel and external resources on business matters. While there are a variety of email systems available, most of the major accounting application vendors have integrated their products with Microsoft Office, which includes Outlook as their email client, making it the most prevalent tool we see utilized in accounting firms today.

As technology is increasingly woven into the fabric of business management and operations, it becomes more necessary to evaluate technology utilization and prepare for management an assessment of the threats and opportunities available.

As technology is increasingly woven into the fabric of business management and operations, it becomes more necessary to evaluate technology utilization and prepare for management an assessment of the threats and opportunities available. In the area of threats, there is the risk involved in an inadequate backup and document archiving system. Weak policies regarding employee […]

ALPHARETTA, GA, March 10, 2011- Xcentric, LLC (www.xcentric.com) was recently ranked among the world’s top 100 managed services providers (MSP) in the fourth-annual MSPmentor 100 (www.mspmentor.net/top-100-msps) survey. This award recognizes Xcentric’s continued growth as a leading MSP to the accounting profession. The MSPmentor 100 survey offers an annual look at the top companies that drive […]