Email has been around a long time and has evolved into a mission-critical resource to deliver documents and communicate with clients. It's the default for most businesses-convenient, easy, and mature-and has all but replaced time-consuming faxing and manual delivery of documents. However, while email has been a trusted delivery tool for years-is it safe?

Moving applications and data to an online environment is inevitable. It’s simply part of the accounting profession’s evolution. If you look at the continuum of change, it becomes clear where next generation accounting firms are heading. Pencil and paper to green bar reports and manual data entry…DOS to Windows…software CDs to web download…and finally on-premise-based IT solutions to SaaS (Software-as-a-Service).