Intuit QuickBooks

by Alan Jay proadvisor

If you’re like most small and medium-sized businesses, you’re likely using an on-premise accounting application like intuit QuickBooks. And most likely that on-premise solution is QuickBooks. QuickBooks is by far the most popular accounting application for SMBs and deservedly so – it’s full-featured, easy to use and well supported by Intuit. As good as QuickBooks is, I believe that many of my clients are going to use and start regularly using this year and over the next few years all do this too.

That’s because the cloud has caught up to the accounting world. And there are many competitors to QuickBooks standing by to pounce.

My consulting firm serves about 600 active companies. More than 90% of them currently use an on-premise application. Isn’t it ridiculously obvious that within the next few years just about all of those companies will be using a QuickBooks software support? Of course, it is. I’ve watched the enormous growth of QuickBooks-as-a-service applications for customer relationship management, human resources, and payroll. I’ve noticed the faster performance. I’ve witnessed their ease of access from tablets and mini-laptops and even smartphones. I’ve watched companies move more and more of their in-house systems to hosted ones, eliminating their servers and IT infrastructure. What's more, I've seen my own particular customers, entrepreneurs who take a gander at any new innovation with a watchful eye, grow more comfortable letting other companies handle their data on managed servers over the past few years. We admit that though no one’s infallible, the security that they provide are better than our own. The QuickBooks online service is perfect for cloud-based accounting applications.