Special Reports (145)
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TOP 100 VARS 2019: THE CLOUD RULES
- Sunday, 26 May 2019
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
For resellers, the issue now is meeting user needs and making money, not worrying about whether software is in the cloud. Certainly, there are many thousands of on-premise mid-market accounting systems in use and a decent number are being sold. But the action is in the cloud and it is a matter of features, which is what users really care about. The issue is which product is better at handling nonprofits, which is good for businesses with inventory, which best suits professional services and which delve into highly specialized markets. In the fact, the thought did not even occur this year to count how many of the Top 100 2019 VARs carry cloud products. It was just assumed they all do. That is why this year’s theme is “The Cloud Rules” If you are not in the cloud game, you are not really in the game.
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Report 2018: Getting a Handle on the Cloud
- Monday, 29 January 2018
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
2018 Report: Getting a Handle on the Cloud
Buyers and sellers are talking less and less about cloud software. The discussions increasingly center around how the software, which happens to be cloud based, helps companies solve business problems, not on the technology used. Read more how this is happening.
Report: Payroll Gets Easier
- Thursday, 19 October 2017
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Report: Payroll Gets Easier: Running payroll, whether for a company to pay its own employees or to pay clients’ employees, has rarely been easy. But it is necessary, which is why the question of whether tax and accounting firms should offer services as a line of business has had some firms moving into the business and others moving out. Read more and find out where your firm falls.
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Report: Using the Cloud to Protect Your Data
- Monday, 26 June 2017
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Report: Using the Cloud to Protect Your Data
The handwriting is in the cloud. And given some real barriers to adoption of cloud-based software, the move remains a question of when, not if, for most businesses with the purchase of web-based applications picking up speed. Download this free special report and read how.
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2017 BSI Top 100 VARS
- Tuesday, 30 May 2017
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The last year has been one of change—the cloud has moved from being something everyone talked about to something most resellers are doing something about. It is also a market facing rapid automation through related technologies such as artificial intelligence, bots and machine learning. As usual, this year’s Bob Scott’s Top 100 VARs provides the names of dealers who are at the top of the mid-market in revenue. But they are a group that is rapidly changing how they operate.
2016 BSI VAR Stars
- Friday, 02 December 2016
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Report: 2016 BSI VAR Stars Moving to the cloud represents a challenge for mid-market accounting software resellers. Some make it more challenging by making the switch from marketing desktop applications to relying on subscription sales of online products very quickly. Read how successful firms are making the switch.
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Annual Report: 2016 BSI Top 100 VARs
- Tuesday, 31 May 2016
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Annual Report: 2016 BSI Top 100 VARs
The web has reduced the need for large channels; the difference between reseller and ISV is blurring and perhaps most important, the younger generations of business people that are running things often have very little interest in purchasing on-premise software. They live in world that’s not only cloud-first, it’s cloud only. This is the background for this year’s theme: A New Direction: But So Many Choices?”
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REVIEW: Website Building Software
- Monday, 21 March 2016
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
Web design and editing have always been a problematic software category. When the World Wide Web debuted in 1990, it was largely a text-only system of document sharing using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
Read more...REVIEW: Budget Software 2016
- Monday, 01 February 2016
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
Change has finally come to the category of planning and budgeting software, resulting in a round of improved capabilities, tighter integration with other software, and another potential revenue stream for accountants who are able to act as master planners and budgeters.
Read more...Report: Making Smart Payroll Choices
- Tuesday, 27 October 2015
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Payroll is about much more than just paying employees. But the discussion about how to handle payroll used to be simpler: process payroll yourself or pay someone else to do it. Over the years, most companies added a “have-it-your way” approach in which companies could choose to split functions as they wished with outsources, sometimes on a client-by-client approach.
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