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) Sage Starts FAS Online Community
The company also hosts online communities for its Accpac, ACT, MAS, Peachtree and Simply Accounting software.The Sage FAS Online community is divided into four areas. The Connect section lets users interact with their peers and discuss topics in a forum environment. The Solve section provides a searchable knowledgebase with answers to common questions. The Participate section enables users to provide feedback and suggestions for improving the software. The Learn section offers a library of documents, including user guides, a depreciation guide, and tax information from U.S. and Canadian authorities.
For more information, visit http://community.sagefas.com.
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) Prophesy Releases 2009 Road Network Update
The software can be integrated with Prophesy's dispatch and accounting, fuel tax reporting, log auditing, and fuel purchase optimization applications, as well as other popular dispatching systems. Commercial mileage summaries by state are a valuable tool for use in fuel tax reporting.For more information on Prophesy Mileage & Routing, please visit:
http://www.mile.com/trucking-software/Mileage/Mileage.aspxAbout Prophesy FuelLogic
FuelLogic, Prophesy's trucking industry-preferred fuel purchase optimization software, reduces diesel fuel costs using powerful fuel optimization technology and current diesel price information in conjunction with existing fuel cards, fuel purchase networks, and negotiated fuel discounts. FuelLogic finds the best truck stop fuel prices along each route, typically providing fuel savings of 7 to 10 cents per gallon and reducing out-of-route miles by 25%. More>> - (
) Help Your Clients by Participating in Accountant Network Programs
SAP has two programs to support tax and accounting professionals who recommend accounting software to their clients. One program is a referral program, and one is more of a partnership program. SAP has a long-standing commitment to the accounting community in an effort strongly supported by CPA Steve Ernst who has been with the SAP team after being involved with the development of the IOMega product line. SAP wants to assist businesses to accommodate growth from startup to wherever they want to be with their Business One, Business By Design and All-in-One product offerings. These programs are designed to support practitioners who make the recommendations or possibly serve in outsourced CEO/CFO/CIO roles.All of these programs are designed to give you knowledge, tools and additional support to answer client questions about applications and options for their business. More>>
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) Intuit Goes SaaS With QuickBooks
Intuit and Microsoft were almost merger partners back in the 1990s, when Microsoft was anxious to add Intuit's accounting software to its personal lineup. After antitrust regulators threw hurdles in the way of that deal, both companies went their own way.
Since then, Intuit has continued to grow on the strength of its stalwart products like QuickBooks and TurboTax—finding strength in SMB and SOHO markets. With its QuickBase product for the CRM space, Intuit is setting its sights a little bit deeper or higher into the enterprise.It's also setting its sights higher and deeper into the Software-as-a-Service model, since QuickBase is a hosted, Web-based application.
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Unlike the deployment for Microsoft's Dynamics, which can include hours of time installing updates, DLLs, patches and dealing with the integration of applications like SQL Server, deployment of QuickBase is easy ... More>> - (
) UPDATE 2-Intuit cuts outlook, sees small business cautious
The company cut its fiscal 2009 forecasts for sales of QuickBooks accounting software and for revenue from payroll and bill payment processing services, as its small business customers get squeezed by the deepening recession.The software maker noticed there hasn't been an inflow of new QuickBook users, which normally occurs during periods of economic downturn, and its payroll and bill payment processing service was hit by lower merchant transaction volume, said Intuit CEO Brad Smith.
"Today's environment is certainly different than what we anticipated," Smith said on a conference call with analysts.
For the fiscal second quarter, which ends on Jan. 31, Intuit forecast earnings per share, excluding some tax items, of 40 cents to 42 cents, below Wall Street expectations of 46 cents, according to Reuters Estimates. More>>
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) Shareholder Accounting Software Provides Complete Transfer Agent
Figtree Consulting, Inc. released Version 11.3 of StockTrack Shareholder Accounting software today adding new features and enhancing ease of use. StockTrack provides a complete Transfer Agent solution. The software supports issuance and transfer of stock, printing of stock certificates, cash dividends (including generating NACHA files for direct deposit), dividend reinvestment, proxy, splits, and all related reporting as well as support for 1099 tax reporting. It is in use by stock transfer agents and self issuers, such as community banks, across the U.S.Morris Plains, NJ (PRWEB) December 11, 2008 -- Figtree Consulting, Inc. released Version 11.3 of StockTrack Shareholder Accounting software today adding new features and enhancing ease of use.
StockTrack provides a complete Transfer Agent solution. More>>