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Sarah Gardiner

The New Cloud IT Ecosystem: Hidden Complexity and Risk Assuaged by Due Diligence

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The new cloud IT ecosystem has brought us heretofore unimagined capability and capacity for even the smallest of companies – newfound abilities to compete, build brand recognition and reach new market penetration. There are also new risks that must be circumnavigated … The old mantra for businesses, “location, location, location”, has given way to connectivity–…

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Cloud Migration or Pizza, the Devil’s Always in the Details

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Four years ago SMBs really started becoming enamored with the breakthroughs that cloud migration promised. First mover SMBs had accepted the marketing message (and hype)—and began transferring over email, data, and entire office server functions to realize the obvious advantages. Fast-forward 24 months and you could hear rumblings of a different sort, about some cloud providers—primarily because…

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Featured Partner Case Study: Bill & Pay Online Solution

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The Bill & Pay online solution provides its clients the ability to automatically send invoices to and receive payments from its customers. Invoices and history are presented to the customer via a securely branded customer portal. Payment processing includes Automated Clearing House (ACH) or credit card payments. Recurring payments and payment plans can be set…

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Accounting Firm SEO – part 1

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SEO or Search Engine Optimization, for accounting firms and other professional practices, is a procedural strategy whereby a CPA firm expends some of its money and/or valuable time systematically adjusting its Internet-based content and related website factors with the goal of ranking higher in the ‘organic’ (or natural) search engine results served up by Google…

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IT Corner: Why Your Business Needs To Be On The Cloud NOW

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Searching for your first cloud computing project? Chances are you’re considering a very small, very low-risk application to create on a cloud computing provider. “I get the logic,” writes  David Linthicum at his InfoWorld cloud computing blog,  “Its a low-value application.  If the thing tanks or your information is hacked, no harm, no foul. However,…

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Free Webinar Thurs Sept 11th: Requests for Sage Cloud Hosting Surge, Learn Why!

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“With the recent surge of practice managers and business owners selecting Sage cloud hosting of Sage 50 Accounting, and other Sage applications, as their financial accounting software of choice, Cloud9 Real Time plans on enabling more cloud computing options, including more application add-ons and additional OS options for Cloud9 clients to select from.”  – Robert…

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SMB Cloud Security – A Promise Always Kept

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Why is SMB cloud security the single biggest hesitation for small businesses considering the move over to cloud-based solutions? Small business owners tend to look at SMB cloud security as inherently riskier because they “don’t control and manage security” concerning the servers holding their data. But if we actually review the stats, it becomes instantly obvious that most…

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Cloud Computing for Small Business Critical Data & Apps

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Cloud Computing for Small Business Exceeds All Expectation Cloud watcher Joe Hewitson at IBM’s Midsize Insider writes, “meaningful data is what drives modern midsize businesses. The ability to analyze and quickly process large quantities of data enables midsize organizations to make smarter business decisions.” But how does a small or mid-sized business effectively manage and…

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The Importance of Accounting Practice Strategic Planning

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Click for guide With another tax season well behind us, practices I have communicated with are set to move forward with the rest of 2014 and on to the next Season. The greatest issue we have seen with many of these firms is that they are coming out of the tax season without a set plan of attack for the next twelve months. When I inquire of…

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White Paper: How Cloud Based ERP Drives Efficiency

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Click for ERP Report Prior to the Cloud, enterprise resource planning  (ERP) was a promise that was never delivered on to all but the biggest companies. The advantages oft trumpeted by ERP consultants and application makers, including the mapping and connecting of all staff, projects, finances and locations in the business, were mostly out of reach…

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