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September 9, 2013 

The Benefits and Challenges of Cloud Accounting

Accounting firms across the country are looking to the cloud to transform their client accounting services. They are looking to move from simply transactional bookkeeping services to higher value advisory services more in line with the CFO function.

Jim Boomer

 Cloud accounting helps power the North Dakota oil boom

August 5, 2013 

Cloud accounting helps power the North Dakota oil boom

Carol Rogne's business is based in Fargo, but its growing customer base is in North Dakota's Oil Patch. DFC Consultants, which Rogne founded in Dickinson 24 years ago, offers business software and other services.

 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