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Five IT Infrastructure and workstation trends for firms to consider as they evaluate system upgrades this summer.

When it comes to knowing and using the latest apps in the fitness, we figured the best place to start is with our 40 Under 40 class of 2015. After all, these people are go-getters on the job, so it stands to reason that they will be organized about ...

Designed specifically for accounting firms, Xcentric is a good fit for firms of all sizes that are interested in having their tax and related programs hosted.

A terrific idea for businesses for a lot of reasons, application hosting allowed users to have online access to desktop versions of their software from any location – a win-win in the business world, where more and more employees are working from ...

Eliminating Muda is one of the most effective byproducts of Lean Six Sigma analysis techniques which make any process more efficient and profitable. So what exactly is Muda? It is the Japanese term for waste, which is defined as “any human activity ...

The application of Lean Six Sigma principals has helped countless organizations objectively re-evaluate and streamline their production processes. Lean Six Sigma is a consulting methodology gaining favor in the accounting profession for its focus not ...

Cloud hosting has been around since long before technology marketers made “going to the cloud” a slogan. Here at CPA Practice Advisor, we’ve been covering cloud solutions for more than a decade, but the concept goes much further back.

Audit re-engineering has been around for decades and delivered significant increases in firm productivity and is now making another quantum leap in improvement by integrating the key tenants of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) into today’s digital audit workflows.

2014 started off awesome with my annual pilgrimage to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas where future trends and bleeding edge products are announced.

As more and more firms consider moving to the cloud, the various flavors of cloud become a focal point of their diligence. We get a fair amount of questions about IaaS, (a.k.a. Infrastructure as a Service) and what specifically sets it apart from the other options available today. See Wikipedia’s definition of Cloud for more insight.

Winston Churchill once said “It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than we can see” which is applicable to many CPA firm partners that are so busy and focused on getting today’s work done that they seldom take the time to think about how they can improve their practices to operate more effectively in the future.

It is becoming more and more popular for cloud computing companies to not actually provide a cloud at all but resell for another cloud. As TechTarget describes it: “A white label cloud service is a cloud provider that sells customers resources that they can, in turn, offer to their own customers under their own brand. […]

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, […]