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Cloud Threat Horizon – the Big Three Concerns to Watch

While no longer in its infancy, the era of cloud computing services is relatively new and must circumnavigate a number of challenges that could impede further growth.  “The best way a company can protect itself is to team up with reputable providers and to avoid unintentionally compromising data security by rushing to escape limitations caused…

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Vote Now: The 2013 Readers' Choice Awards!

Its Voting Season so Vote Your Favorites Now in the 2013 CPA Practice Advisor Readers Choice Awards! In the last most recent Accountants and Tax Professionals Readers Choice Awards, Cloud9 was the winner of Best Accounting Cloud, by a veritable landslide.  Can we do it again? See:  ‘Cloud9 Nabs 2012 Readers’ Choice Award‘ Take the…

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Winners' Roster of Awesome Application Awards

The Sleeter Group,  a company dedicated to studying the market to find the best solutions that help small businesses work smarter, faster and more profitably, announced the winners of the 2013 “Awesome Applications” awards last week  at their Ninth Annual Accounting Solutions Conference. The awards recognize technologies that help small businesses be more efficient and productive,…

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Cloud9 Receives Sleeter's Awesome Application Award!

Cloud9’s virtual server solution was named #1 in a prestigious annual accounting technology polling! Cloud9 Real Time was selected as one of one of the 2013 Awesome Applications by The Sleeter Group for its Virtual Server Solution.  With thousands of accounting and management programs on the market for small businesses, the Sleeter Awesome Applications Award…

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Tax Preparation Software Survey Highlights

2012 AICPA tax preparation software survey highlights “Cloud Computing a growing trend” Over 6,000 certified public accountants assessed the tax prep applications they used to prepare year 2011 tax returns, indicating what they did and did not appreciate about their tax software in a recent survey by the AICPA. This year, the tax software survey…

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Cloud Computing Infographic: The Coming Cloud Wars – Private vs Public

Cloud computing offerings have evolved There are nearly a dozen different options to move your data and processes to the cloud.  The two main distinctions, as it were, are Private and Public clouds. Public clouds: Also known as a shared hosting cloud, such provisions are provided “as a service” over the Web with little or…

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Is True Small Business Cloud Computing Really Cost Feasible?

Is The Price Of The Cloud Still Out Of Reach For Most Small Businesses and Professional Practices? In his recent article on Forbes, small biz tech blogger Gene Marks contends that, for most small businesses, the most cost effective way to run their business IT is locally and not in the cloud.  The contention (somehow) is…

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Innovation creativity reign supreme at Intuit

Cloud9 is proud to be an Intuit .“Authorized Innovator”.(and Commercial Host) Of all the hundreds of applications and software makers that Cloud9 Real Time facilitates with its array of dynamic private cloud solutions, none is more indicative of our own surprising success than Intuit. Suddenly Intuit is being acknowledged everywhere, from FORTUNE’S 100 best places to work…

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Key Financial Managers Predict Big Benefits from Cloud Computing

CFOs Weigh In on Cloud Computing Benefits* The majority of key financial managers in North America predict that Cloud computing will reduce costs and help their companies profit in the near future, according to a new survey – The Business Value of Cloud Reporting: A Survey of Senior Finance Executives. – Download free report at CFO Magazine –…

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MSP Alliance: Just How Secure Is Your Cloud?

How Do You Know Your Managed Services Provider Cloud Computing Services Company is Secure? Did you know that there is more regulation, continuing education and oversight for someone giving tattoos than for a company providing critical cloud computing services for your accounting, law, or other small business?  Cloud computing is completely self-regulated which means that…

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