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Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Pricing and Open AI Relationship – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Dec. 2025

Accounting December 12, 2025 

Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Pricing and Open AI Relationship – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Dec. 2025

In this episode of The Accounting Technology Lab, hosts Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley analyze Intuit’s recent announcements following Intuit Connect, focusing on major QuickBooks Desktop (QBD) price increases, and Intuit’s reported $100 million annual relationship with OpenAI. The Accounting Tech Lab is an ongoing series that explores the intersection of public accounting and technology.

Brian Tankersley, Randy Johnston

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July 30, 2013 

Paramount Software Solutions, Inc.

Paramount Software designs Business Software products to address challenges of small & mid-sized companies in the US market and helps clients derive competitive edge in dynamically changing market place.

 2013 Review of Xcentric

July 29, 2013 

2013 Review of Xcentric

Best Firm Fit: Professional tax & accounting firms who wish to outsource their IT infrastructure and desktop hosting functions to a specialized national provider which serves tax and accounting professionals exclusively. Strengths: Xcentric has experience hosting and supporting all of the major CPA firm application suites used by mid-sized CPA firms, including Thomson Reuters, Intuit,...…

Brian Tankersley

 2013 Review of Cloudvara

July 29, 2013 

2013 Review of Cloudvara

Best Firm Fit: Organizations who need to host a small number of non-standard applications in a high availability environment for access in multiple locations. Also, small to mid-sized firms (1-50 users) and small businesses who wish to host all of their applications on a cloud server. The company considers itself a “boutique” hosting firm that...…

Brian Tankersley

 2013 Review of Cloud9 Real Time

July 29, 2013 

2013 Review of Cloud9 Real Time

Best Firm Fit: Cloud9 hosts numerous applications and custom virtual servers for a wide range of industries, including accounting firms, law firms, and general small businesses. The company reports that 65% of their users work with professional tax and accounting firms. Also, as one of two providers in this review which offer hosting of Canadian...…

Brian Tankersley

 2013 Review of Qutera

July 29, 2013 

2013 Review of Qutera

Best Firm Fit:  Organizations looking for basic QuickBooks or multi-user Sage 50 hosting at an attractive price, or those who need hosted virtual servers. Also, firms with an IT department who need expertise in some, but not all, areas of hosting data online and would like an outside technical resource to serve as a backup...…

Brian Tankersley

 2013 Review of Swizznet

July 29, 2013 

2013 Review of Swizznet

Best Firm Fit: Firms who need a QuickBooks host and do not need automatic provisioning of configurations and/or new users. Strengths: The company offers the free Open Office productivity suite for those who need a simple, inexpensive tool for editing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The only host which offers two factor authentication of users (e.g....…

Brian Tankersley

 2013 Review of Right Networks

July 29, 2013 

2013 Review of Right Networks

Best Firm Fit:Any company looking to leverage the efficiencies of the cloud to successfully grow their business. Also, firms who are looking to expand their practice and provide higher value to clients by offering them a mobile, collaborative, fully managed environment to access their desktop accounting applications. Strengths: The Company is an authorized host for...…

Brian Tankersley

 2013 Review of InsynQ

July 29, 2013 

2013 Review of InsynQ

Best Firm Fit: Organizations who use professional tax and accounting applications from multiple providers. InsynQ has a particularly strong reputation for successfully dealing with the challenges of hosting Lacerte Tax and ProSeries Tax Professional, which challenge many providers. Also, as the only provider in this review which offer hosting of Canadian tax and accounting applications...…

Brian Tankersley