Special Reports (155)
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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.
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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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Report: Reaching the Cloud - How Ready are Firms to Move
- Tuesday, 29 September 2015
- Special Reports
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Those who have been around long enough probably remember it took tax and accounting firms a long time to move from DOS to Windows. After all, DOS-based products worked well for their businesses. The situation is similar with the move from desktop software to web-based applications—those well-used on-premise products are working very well. But clients are increasingly moving to the cloud and so are professionals. And while that transition is not as rapid as many would have anticipated, and software publishers would have liked, there is no doubt the direction is toward the cloud.
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REVIEW: Workflow Software 2015
- Tuesday, 01 September 2015
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
The software category of workflow management is exploding, with new versions, streamlined capabilities and new features. But there is an old adage that when you are up to your hips in alligators it is easy to forget that the intent was to drain the swamp.
Read more...REVIEW: Small Business Accounting Software 2015
- Tuesday, 23 June 2015
- Special Reports
- Written by Dave McClure
Driven by the growth of cloud computing and an understanding of how little most small businesses want to delve into the minutiae of accounting, the market for small business accounting software has exploded in the last decade. Still, it remains a hard market to serve. The new entrants are able to make use of the economies of "software as a service" in ways that the larger, more established vendors with their legacy customer base have some difficulties in matching.
Read more...BSI: 2015 Top 100 VARs
- Tuesday, 09 June 2015
- Special Reports
- Written by Bob Scott
The last few years have seemed to be a story of survival. But the revenue figures reported by this year's Top 100 VARs tell a much different story. They confirm what resellers have been reporting for the last few months—that business is good; so good that many are having some of the best results in their history. The increases in revenue registered by many are in double digits. There are always the companies that do well and we present 100 of them in this Report.
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