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Right Networks has announced it has surpassed 250,000 subscribers. The cloud service provider specializes in serving accounting firms, tax professionals and small businesses.

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 ...

Software as a Service (SaaS) is making great progress. However, if you can’t solve your business needs with all SaaS tools, and you want to live in the cloud, how do you do that? We’ve discussed in prior columns the advantages of private cloud and ...

C9 Mobile Takes Users to the Cloud on iPad & iPad Mini

Cloud server based hosting of applications which have historically run on desktop or laptop Windows computers is a hot trend with accounting professionals.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Many small company owners and managers already know the benefits of maintaining the business’ books correctly. They also fully realize just how time intensive it can be.

You need to be thinking about your clients, firm and the technology you use to serve those clients. Hardware, software, data, procedures and people all work together to transform data into information.

Deal allows clients to stream QuickBooks to the desktop via cloud hosting.