Maximizing Business Value with Cloud ERP

Earlier this week, Intacct was joined by Liz Herbert, a principal analyst from Forrester Research, and Ken Cucarola, the CFO at Teachscape, for an interesting webinar on maximizing business value with cloud ERP. If you missed the session, you can access an archived version of the webinar here.

There were a lot of useful insights during this informational webinar. Liz Herbert took attendees through several key cloud computing trends and drivers for adoption, including findings from several Forrester research reports. For example, Liz discussed what companies see as the key benefits to a cloud-based application – the top five responses to their survey were:

1.  Lower implementation costs
2. Faster time-to-market from the ease of implementation
3. Faster delivery of new features
4. Lower ongoing costs
5. Better support for large numbers of mobile/remote users, suppliers, and partners

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The Power of Intacct's Adaptability

Today we launched a new Intacct customer video on our YouTube Channel. The focus for this video is all around the power of adaptability. At Intacct, we know that no two businesses are alike. That's why we've designed our system to be flexible and adapt to meet your needs. The CFOs and controllers from several Intacct customers and one partner discuss what Intacct's adaptability means to them, including:

• Helping you get more value from your existing investments
• Continuously developing new and improved functionality
• Staying ahead of market, regulatory, and industry challenges
• Providing financial management and accounting software you'll never out grow

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Taking Back Control of Your Accounting Engagements

After spending hours and hours working late at night or on a weekend fixing a client’s accounting in order to get the information you need to complete your work, have you ever thought …if only I had been involved with this client throughout the year, collaborating with them real time, I would not be having to do this now?  Maybe when you had this thought in the wee hours of a late night working, your thoughts possibly had more explicatives included – we have all had those moments!  We end up in these situations if our clients drive the accounting and software decisions, and we are left cleaning it up and then duplicating efforts to get the work done that we need to do in our firm’s software, often having to write off some of that duplication of effort or clean-up.  Because of this situation, we are tied to the accounting cycle of too many hours this time of year and being chained to our desk.  We are people too after all; some quality of life would be nice!  If we have more control of the accounting, true collaboration with the client and real time access to their financials, would that help provide the quality of life we need and streamline the work throughout the year?

Well, let’s take a look back at how we got here…

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Why Healthcare Companies Should Switch to Cloud Financial Applications

Cloud financial management systems are becoming increasingly popular with healthcare organizations – especially those with distributed employees and offices. Intacct was joined recently by Dan Orlinski, the CFO of Renal Ventures Management, and Aaron Brandwein, a healthcare solutions specialist at Business Solutions, for an insightful webinar looking at how cloud financials can help healthcare organizations. Renal Ventures Management is an Intacct customer that operates 32 dialysis clinics across multiple states – with each clinic operating as a separate joint venture.  Business Solutions is an Intacct Business Partner. [Watch the archived webinar here]

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The Value of Intacct for Multi-Entity Businesses

This week’s Intacct customer spotlight is Able Engineering, a leading aircraft component repair and overhaul services company that switched from MYOB to Intacct’s cloud financial applications. Able highlights one of the areas where Intacct really differentiates itself in the market – multi-entity management.

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The Marriage of Front Office and Back Office Applications

On Valentine's Day, it seems only fitting to do a post on the powerful connection between two best of breed applications - Salesforce CRM and Intacct. Yes, sales and finance can get along and live happily ever after... and the experience of RedVision is a perfect example. Greg Thompson, RedVision’s VP of Finance and Corporate Development, joined us last week for a webinar to share their results from using Intacct integrated with Salesforce CRM. (You can watch the archived webinar here.)

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The Cloud Financial Accounting Software ROI

Change Management.  Non-Billable Time Reduction. Cost Containment.  Client Privacy & Security.  These are some of the many things that keep Accounting Firm Partners & Administrators up at night.  Yet, the costs of software and the hardware to support it keep rising, along with the infrastructure that is necessary to manage them.  That doesn’t count the necessary security testing to make sure all the data is secure and client information is contained and kept private that should be done in a perfect world!   The writing is on the wall – or in the clouds!  In order to stay or become profitable, changes in how accounting firms manage their client management and financial management infrastructure is needed!  Costs of running a firm need to be reduced and non-billable time for non-valued added client tasks need to be eliminated.  Collaborating with your clients through a cloud based financial system answers a lot of these issues.

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Intacct Customer Spotlight: Savory Sandwiches, Inc.

This week’s customer in the spotlight is a growing franchise owner that outstretched the capabilities of QuickBooks. Savory Sandwiches owns eight Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches franchises - the second fastest growing restaurant chain in the United States in 2010. Moving to Intacct has allowed Savory Sandwiches to automate key business processes, streamline accounting operations, and perform more sophisticated financial management tasks – all without increasing the size of its finance staff.

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Intacct Voice of the Customer Videos - FlightWorks and Canyon Ridge Christian Church

We've added two new customer videos to the Intacct YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/intacctcorporation. We have lots of additional videos in the queue, so be sure to subscribe to our channel.

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Intacct Customer Spotlight: Superior Global Solutions

Today we take a look at one of the many companies that have outgrown QuickBooks® and graduated to Intacct’s cloud financial management and accounting software. Most small businesses start off using popular entry-level system like Intuit’s QuickBooks and then, as they grow, reach a point where they need a more robust and advanced financial management system.

Superior Global Solutions, a growing health information services company based in Plano, TX, is a perfect example. Superior Global recognized that as it grew, it developed more sophisticated financial management needs that QuickBooks was not set up to handle. In particular, they felt limited by the account structure, reporting, and data export capabilities of QuickBooks.

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