CPA Practice Advisor

AUG 2013

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Reviews For Your Firm HOSTING PROVIDERS Swizznet Read the full review and see expanded ratings for this product online at: www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com/10986952 phone and the optional PhoneFactor POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS BEST FIRM FIT Firms who need a QuickBooks host and two factor authentication tool. • Swizznet is one of the newer hosts to do not need automatic provisioning of • While Swizznet is not the only comcompete for the accounting industry's pany which is licensed by Intuit to business, and does not support as confgurations and/or new users. commercially host the multi-lane many applications as some competiversion of QuickBooks Point of Sale, STRENGTHS tors. Notable missing applications they are the only ones ofering it. • The company offers the free Open include the CCH ProSystem fx suite, Office productivity suite for those • All data is mirrored between two the Tomson Reuters CS suite, Adobe who need a simple, inexpensive tool commercial hosting centers, and the Acrobat Standard/Pro, and Sage 50 backup data center can be activated in for editing documents, spreadsheets, US (Peachtree Accounting). approximately two hours. and presentations. • New user provisioning and setup of • Te only host which ofers two factor • Te company supports many Quickapps is not automated at this time, and Books add-ons, including SmartVault, authentication of users (e.g. validation most users who wish to host their based on something you physically Bi l l .com, Ta l l ie, Spr i ng A head, entire desktop will have to subscribe T homson Reuters' CS QB Data to Swizznet's Custom Virtual Server have in addition to username and password) is available using a mobile Utility, and the QuickBooks Web Product. Connector. InsynQ SUMMARY & PRICING Swizznet's QuickBooks Hosting for 2011-2013 Pro, Premier, and Enterprise is priced starting at $54.99 per month, plus the cost of licensing the product (purchase and leasing options are available). Tose who wish to move all network applications and data into the hosted environment will require a custom-configured server, which is priced at $225 per month, plus $54.99 per user per month, with a $250 custom server setup fee. 888-794-9948 www.Swizznet.com Read the full review and see expanded ratings for this product online at: www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com/10986956 company and user setup tools of those • One of two companies in this review BEST FIT companies which commercially host (along with Cloud9 Real Time) which Organizations who use professional tax appl ications and ser vers for offer separate hosting services for and accounting applications from mulCanadian accountants and clients, tiple providers. InsynQ has a particularly accounting professionals and their firms. InsynQ is one of the more a nd t he on ly one who of fers a n strong reputation for successfully dealing optional, separate Canadian server with the challenges of hosting Lacerte establ ished host i ng compa n ies farm location. Tax and ProSeries Tax Professional, serving the accounting and bookkeeping sector. • Supports the broadest range of tax which challenge many providers. Also, software, including US income tax as the only provider in this review which • Provides hosting services for QuickBook s, Sage 50, Sage 10 0 ER P, oferings from Intuit, CCH, Drake, offer hosting of Canadian tax and numerous QuickBooks extensions, and Thomson Reuters, Canadian accounting applications on servers based income tax applications, and sales tax in Canada, frms with operations in both Microsof Ofce, Microsof Project, and Microsof Exchange. InsynQ also calculation and filing applications the US and Canada may be particularly hosts contact management/CR M from CCH and Avalara. interested in this company's oferings. applications such as Sage ACT!, • Excellent library of self-help docuG old m i ne , R e s u lt s C R M , a nd ments and white papers explaining STRENGTHS Microsof Dynamics CRM. com mon ter m s a nd i ss ues s u r• Has one of the most automated rounding hosted desktops. POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS • Some of the older virtual desktops are hosted on Windows Server 2003, which is nearing its end of life. • The c ompany's primary US data centers are in the Northwest US, and while this may be atractive to frms in that region, it may represent a drawback to frms in the Southeast. SUMMARY & PRICING Pricing varies by implementation and is listed on the company's website. 866-206-1781 www.insynq.com The APPortunities are endless! Announcing a new section on CPAPracticeAdvisor.com for showcasing your app to Tax & Accounting Professionals. Get more exposure for your app by showcasing it on the industry's leading website Package includes: • Listing of one app in the App Depot for a year • Promotion of the app in one of CPA Practice Advisor's Newsletter (minimum of 4 times) • Image of App • Discounts available when listing more than • Description 4 apps • Link to download (both iTunes and Android) 10 August 2013 • www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com 800-547-7377 Call your account executive at Barry ext. 2103 Jim ext 2107 Barry.Strobel@CPAPracticeAdvisor.com Jim.Baker@CPAPracticeAdvisor.com

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