Macdonald Named Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Sales Alliances HERNDON, VA — Deltek, Inc., a provider of enterprise applications software for project-focused organizations, has named Taylor Macdonald Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Sales Alliances, responsible for managing and developing Deltek’s global channel and sales alliance operations. Macdonald will report directly to Deltek’s Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Carolyn Parent. Macdonald brings over 19 years of experience to Deltek and has been named one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People†in the accounting profession by Accounting Today on five separate occasions. He was also named Top Channel Executive by VARBusiness Magazine, made the top ten list of CRN.com’s “Most Influential Channel Chiefs of 2007â€, and was named [...]
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See the demo Application allows accountants to collaborate with clients online HAUPPAUGE, NY (www.accountantsworld.com) – AccountantsWorld has unveield a new web-based software product Accounting Relief®, which lets accountants collaborate with their small business clients to help them streamline accounting and manage their finances more effectively. “Most bookkeeping programs are excellent—when the clients know what they’re doing. But most of the time they don’t, and that creates a mess. Accountants spend enormous amounts of time correcting the mistakes clients make before they can do their work and produce finished financial statements,†said Dr. Chandra Bhansali, CEO of AccountantsWorld. “When you consider the complete workflow that includes the work performed by accountants, the entire process of managing small business finances is marred [...]
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Archive Studio software as a service offering enables secure document warehousing and sharing with remote access (Winter Haven, FL) DocuLex (www.doculex-usa.com), creators of electronic document management software, announced the launch of Archive Studio Web based document management for accounting environments. This software as a service offering enables secure document warehousing and sharing with remote access to organizations with a need to share documents among multiple offices, other companies or the public. DocuLex utilizes Internet-enabled search and retrieval software WebSearch, designed to allow sharing of document collections for colleagues to enable rapid information distribution and workflow collaboration. Each user is presented with a custom portal design specifically to meet their needs. Document collections include scanned paper converted to PDF and all [...]
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Convenience, Mobility, and Speed-of-Business are Driving Adoption New York (AMI-Partners) – Small and medium businesses are facing numerous challenges that are forcing them to become more flexible in order to compete in an increasingly global economy. This demands increased productivity from employees and optimized operational efficiency from SMBs to enable short response times and quick information-driven decision making. While SMBs are yet to fully comprehend the notion of unified communications (UC), AMI-Partners’ tracking of this space reveals US SMBs have started to adopt various facets of UC in a best-of-breed, piecemeal manner. “Whether using Skype on their smartphones, or installing in-house IP-PBXs or using web conferencing services, SMBs are clearly signaling their desire to utilize all available communications and collaboration [...]
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CashView was one of eight emerging technology companies to win a DEMOgod award at the DEMO Fall 2007 conference. Click here to see the video. Company Announces 2nd Round of VC Funding for $6.5 million CashView chose DEMOfall 07 to annouce its new low-cost, electronic cash management service that simplifies the way companies send invoices, receive payments and pay bills. CashView says it offers an easy and affordable option to shift companies from a time-consuming, paper-based system to a paperless, integrated solution for easy management of everyday business finances. CashView is demonstrated its new technology publicly for the first time at the DEMOfall 07 conference in San Diego. The company also announced that it has secured its second round of [...]
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Will CPAs be ready as vendors drive toward a new delivery system? by Rick Telberg Internet-based delivery of business applications software may finally be reaching the tipping point for CPAs. But are CPAs ready to accept and capitalize on the new “next wave†in software? The foothold now being gained by the Web-based delivery platform referred to as Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, could set the stage for finance and accounting software vendors to reach out in force to the CPA community as the vendors build or redefine their sales channels. Because you’re reading this online, you’re probably at least somewhat familiar with SaaS. So you know that with SaaS, end users essentially lease their applications software, which is Web-hosted. The vendor/host [...]
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Free Upon Request Advertisers preach to an ‘ecosystem of influence’ and must hit prospects at the right stage of the ‘buying journey.’ By Hank Berkowitz from AICPA Custom Media The hazy dog days of August are upon us. But are they still lazy? Traditionally it’s time to take a breather, catch a little R&R and take stock of how the year’s been going before gearing up for the September whirlwind of pent-up decision-making and the Q4 budget grind. Anybody remember those good old days? We’re not suggesting you’re a sloth if you don’t have your Holiday greeting cards already at the printer, but in today’s business climate, you better be ready to hit the ground running well before Labor Day. [...]
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With only one in 10 fully satisfied, they want a lot more than they’re getting. New study pinpoints buying plans. Join the study; get the benchmarks. by Rick Telberg No doubt about it, finance managers and CPAs love software. In the past couple of decades, accounting applications have gone from useful novelty, to powerful tool, to absolute necessity. No matter how much you like the good-old pencil-and-eraser solution, it just won’t meet today’s demands of financial regulations, tax codes and competitive urgency. But that doesn’t mean that finance professionals love the software they’ve got. Some do. Some don’t. Which means about one in three are in the market for something better.
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About one in three may be looking to change systems. How do CFOs choose a new payroll vendor? Join the study. Get the answers. by Rick Telberg For the Finance Executive For a long conversation, ask a corporate finance manager or CFO how he or she feels about his or her company’s payroll system. We got an earful when we did that in our online survey. “One thing — that’s too tough,†Angela Robinson, a CPA financial manager with Flaherty & Collins Properties in Indianapolis, Ind., responded when asked in our ongoing survey to identify what needs to be improved with her office’s payroll system. She finally boiled her down wish list to better response time and accuracy from vendors’ [...]
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Ease-of-use, customer service top wish lists. What do CPAs want in a payroll solution? Join the study. Get the answers. by Rick Telberg At Large Whether they are offering payroll as a client service or running that process in-house for their firms, CPAs expect more and better from their payroll software and services vendors. More ease-of-use and better customer service, including updates with tax rate and regulation changes, lead the list of payroll issues most important to professionals in public practice, followed not far behind by cost, of course. Also near the top of the list are security, flexible reporting and integration of payroll with human resources programs and with other payroll-related business operations, according to data streaming into the [...]
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