SaaS for Financial Management
Event: Quickbooks: Is it Time to Make a Change? – San Francisco | February 16, 2011
Posted by Kevin Lalor in SaaS for Financial Management on February 3rd, 2011
Business Intelligence 101 will be heading to San Francisco this month to discuss what the Cloud means to Finance and Accounting with Proformative.
We look forward to interacting with and learning with everyone. We also hope to provide some insights to others on our experiences in the Cloud.
The event will be held February 16th, 2011 in San Francisco, at the Marriott San Francisco Marquis, full details below:
Cloud Computing and SaaS for Finance and Accounting – San Francisco
Most companies start out on QuickBooks. It is cheap and easily adopted for small companies with relatively straightforward accounting needs. However, many companies grow their top and bottom line without growing their systems, and legacy technology can slow you down, increase costs and reduce revenue and profitability. The content of these seminars will be focused on current and emerging trends in accounting and reporting systems for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) looking to move to their next accounting system.
Insights in addressing the issues surrounding the right time to make your move off of QuickBooks, and the available alternatives, will come from seasoned practitioners and experts on growing company accounting, ERP and reporting systems designed specifically to meet the needs of growing SMBs, including cloud computing and SaaS based applications. The seminar will consist of brief educational sessions, a networking session, and an interactive panel discussion.
Learning Objectives
After attending this event you will be able to:
- Define when is the right time to move on from Quickbooks or other entry systems
- Define alternatives to Quickbooks for SMB
- Learn about how to enhance and expand your finance organization’s capabilities with complementary SMB solutions around your accounting/ERP system
- Hear success stories from finance and accounting executives who took their organizations to new heights in effectiveness and ROI
Where:
Marriott San Francisco Marquis,
55 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA
Event: Cloud Computing for Finance and Accounting – Seattle | February 23, 2011
Posted by Kevin Lalor in SaaS for Financial Management on February 1st, 2011
Business Intelligence 101 will be heading to Seattle this month to discuss what the Cloud means to Finance and Accounting with Proformative.
We look forward to interacting with and learning with everyone. We also hope to provide some insights to others on our experiences in the Cloud.
The event will be held February 23th, 2011 in Seattle, at the Courtyard Downtown/Lake Union, full details below:
Cloud Computing and SaaS for Finance and Accounting – Seattle
Few things are as critical to corporate finance, accounting and related professionals as our systems. And those systems, from core accounting and budgeting platforms to back office infrastructure, ERP and CRM are moving online, into the “cloud”, and into an entirely new business model called Software as a Service, or “SaaS”. This represents the largest change in technology for our profession since the dawn of the internet.
Attendees at this event will learn about the latest in Cloud Computing and SaaS for finance, accounting and related functions: what they are, where they can be used, how companies are putting themselves in the cloud and more, including a focus on risk issues and how to use third party assessments to build trust with potential services providers. Our presenters have the latest knowledge of these applications and how you can put them to work for you, as well as what pitfalls to look out for.
Learning Objectives
After attending this event you will be able to:
- Define the evolution of cloud computing and SaaS based application including the current and emerging trends and terminology around cloud computing and SaaS.
- Associate why cloud computing and SaaS applications are relevant to finance and accounting professionals
- Apply best practices around choosing cloud based technology providers, implementing this technology and addressing the most relevant accounting, risk, legal, and internal control considerations around cloud computing and SaaS applications
Where:
Courtyard Downtown/Lake Union,
925 Westlake Avenue North
Seattle, WA
Postini Adds Message Log Search
Posted by Kevin Lalor in Cloud Technology News, SaaS for Financial Management on January 19th, 2010
If you’re using Google’s Postini for email security and encryption, tracking your email history just got easier.
By February 4, 2010, Google will add this helpful feature to Systems 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 200.
From Google:
With the new Message Log Search function, users can now track what happened to an inbound or outbound message — whether it was delivered, quarantined, archived, encrypted, or other disposition — and see if the message triggered a specific filter. Message Log Search also enables users to track all messages for a specific sender, recipient, domain, or IP address.
While the message security service stores information about your messages in a log (such as the message header and how the message was processed), it does not store the actual messages. If you want to save search results for later analysis, you’ll be able to export a .csv file.
This is a nice feature for Postini users and will help us to determine what has been happening to our messages: how messages were processed, filtered and delivered, and it will give insight in the traffic patterns for our domain.
We’ll try running some searches on the data using a variety of criteria and queries and let you know what we think.
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