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VerticalResponse Joins Intuit Partner Platform

VerticalResponse Joins Intuit Partner Platform -- Launches VerticalResponse for Intuit Workplace -Leading E-mail Marketing Service Provider to Power E-mail Marketing for Millions of Intuit Small Business Customers

June 03, 2009 —

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 06/03/09 — VerticalResponse (www.verticalresponse.com), Inc., a leading provider of on-demand e-mail marketing, survey and direct mail solutions, today announced it has joined the Intuit® Partner Platform (http://ipp.developer.intuit.com) to deliver its award-winning products and services to Intuit Inc.’s user community of more than 4 million small businesses. As part of the Partner Platform, VerticalResponse for Intuit Workplace adds sales and marketing tools to the industry-leading accounting functionality of QuickBooks®, allowing users to turn the historic data they have from past transactions and other performance into growth and increased revenue. Read more

Adobe morphs the online spreadsheet

Adobe morphs the online spreadsheet- June 17th, 2009 – Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 7:51 am

One thing I found especially interesting about Adobe’s new Acrobat.com announcements this week (Techmeme coverage here) is its hybrid spreadsheet/database application called Tables.

I already discussed Adobe’s subscription model in another post earlier this month, What your bank can teach you about freemium, so I won’t elaborate on that aspect of the announcement beyond mentioning that we can now start to make a judgement whether Adobe has followed my fourth guideline, “Price for value.” Here’s the verdict from CloudAve’s Krishnan Subramanian: “The frugal minded SaaS user in me thinks that this price is steep compared to Adobe’s competitors but there may be others who would like the user interface and may be willing to pay big money for it.” That suggests, given there are still a set of services available for no charge, that Adobe has got the pricing more or less at the right level. I suspect we’ll see some more developments as the offering matures, too, which may add to the perceived value of the subscription plans. Read more

Intuit Partner Platform: Changing the Rules

Intuit Partner Platform: Changing the Rules of Cloud Platforms with Federated Applications - June 23, 2009

• Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor
• Analysis of: Intuit Partner Platform Lets SaaS Developers Reach Millions of Small Businesses
• Published at: www.forbes.com

Implications

With its Federated Applications model, and tremendous presence in the small business market, Intuit is poised to change the rules for cloud computing platforms. This model makes it much easier and faster for developers to leverage existing investments and reach a new market than for PaaS competitors without this capability. Meanwhile, millions of Intuit customers get access to one-stop shopping, account management, connected data, and single sign-on for applications in the Intuit Workplace Read more

Verizon, Intuit, Boomi Jump Into Cloud Services

Verizon, Intuit, Boomi Jump Into Cloud Services - The service rollouts demonstrate how vendors are trying to differentiate themselves with innovations intended to get them a bigger share of the emerging cloud computing market.
By Mary Hayes Weier - InformationWeek  - June 3, 2009 03:35 PM 

 

Intuit QuickBase: Web-based Software

Intuit QuickBase: Web-based Software Built on the #1 Online Database
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Checklist of 25 elements of appropriate controls with QuickBooks

Checklist of 25 elements of appropriate controls with QuickBooks

By Amy Vetter
Helping clients protect themselves from fraud is one of the most valuable services you can provide. The security features in QuickBooks can contribute to a holistic approach to control in concert with best business practices. In this article, CPA and Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor Amy Vetter provides a list of 25 areas or issues – both inside and outside the software – that are crucial to an adequate defense against fraud. Read more

Can you really do that in QuickBooks?

Can you really do that in QuickBooks? By Joe Woodard, AccountingWEB QuickBooks columnist

Restricting Changes to the Chart of Accounts
This trick prevents users from making the following changes to the chart of accounts:

Merging Accounts

Changing Account Types

Changing Sub-Account/Parent Account Assignments
Reason for the Trick Read more

Delvinia releases new insights on social net behaviour

Delvinia releases new insights on social net behaviour
by Gariné Tcholakian
http://www.mediaincanada.com/articles/mic/20090525/delviniainsight.html?__s=yes

A new report by Delvinia (based on 11,559 regionally and demographically representative AskingCanadians panelists), reveals how Canadians truly feel about social networks and digital info sharing.

On the social networking front, the report, dubbed “Online Communities and Information Sharing,” found that only 6% of the Net Generation (NGen) and 4% of Gen X report visiting Twitter in the last month.

“I believe this speaks to the fact that Twitter’s huge popularity is more a reflection of the media’s coverage of this particular online community, and is less about the actual volume of users,” Julianne Smola, director of strategic development at Delvinia tells MiC. “Also, several celebrities and celebrity news outlets have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. The low numbers we uncovered are likely just a reflection of this moment in time – certainly Twitter’s membership base is expected to grow rapidly. But it’s important to keep Twitter in perspective, particularly when companies are considering where to invest their dwindling marketing dollars in the hopes of achieving a meaningful ROI.”

Other, less talked about social media and sharing sites showed very similar numbers to those associated with Twitter, adds Smola. “In the case of NGen for example, 7% visited Hi5, 6% visited DIGG, 5% visited Tagged, and 4% visited Stumbleupon – but you just don’t hear about these sites. So Twitter’s popularity is not about being ahead of the pack from a usage perspective. Not yet, anyway.”

The report also finds that there is a significant difference between how frequently Canadians visit social network sites and how frequently they post content, with YouTube showing the greatest difference between views and posts: while 83% of NGen visited YouTube only 6% posted content. Boomers visited the site 595 times, and only 4% posted content. Smola says the difference is “likely just a reflection of how often people feel they have something to share with their networks vs. how often they want to see what others are up to. For example, although you may not have new pictures to post on Flickr every day, that doesn’t mean you don’t want to check out what others have posted on a daily basis.”

The report found that 83% of female Canadians aged 18 to 30 feel digital technology allows for easier social connections, compared to their male counterparts at 76%.

When it comes to information sharing, the report found that NGen Canadians feel the safest about sharing any type of personal information online but are more comfortable sharing credit card details (79%) than addresses and phone numbers (50%). While the majority of NGen are comfortable sharing information like their age, gender and marital status (53%) – the majority of all other generations are neutral or not comfortable.

While the majority of NGen and Gen X feel safe about using credit cards online; boomers and 65+ are significantly less confident (only 46% of boomers, 39% of 65+ feel safe). Sharing addresses or phone numbers online was found as highly unpopular among most Canadians, with boomers least comfortable (only 22% feel safe). “Most likely, the difference in comfort level between generations is simply a reflection of the fact that while NGeners have never known a world without the internet and virtual information sharing, older generations have had to adjust to the idea. Anything new usually breeds suspicion, so older Canadians have approached the internet more cautiously.”

Delvinia Interactive’s complete Online Communities and Information Sharing insight summary can be viewed here .

Delvinia’s Insights reports come out six to eight times a year.

www.delvinia.com/di

Carbonite 2009 Webware 100 award

20-May-2009
Voters on CNET Web site name Carbonite a favorite online data backup application for consumers and businesses

BOSTON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ — Carbonite Inc., the leading provider of online backup services for consumers and small businesses, announced its selection by voters as a 2009 Webware 100 award winner on Webware, a CNET site. Carbonite’s set-and-forget online backup service was honored as a favorite in the Infrastructure and Storage category.

Carbonite was among more than 5,000 companies nominated by Webware readers and one of 300 companies chosen as a finalist. More than 630,000 votes were cast in an online poll, which ultimately selected the Webware 100 winners. Other honorees in the Webware 100 include Facebook, Twitter and Skype.

“We are thrilled and honored to have been voted as a 2009 Webware 100 winner,” said David Friend, founder and CEO of Carbonite. “This designation is a great confirmation of the high value our customers place on the protection Carbonite provides for their personal and professional data. We’ve backed up more than 25 billion files and helped our customers restore more than 2 billion files that otherwise would have been lost forever.”

Carbonite recently added a remote access feature that allows users to access their backed-up files online anytime from any computer. Earlier this year, the company introduced its Carbonite for Mac product, which provides unlimited, automatic online backup for Intel-based Macs with OS 10.4 or 10.5.

About Carbonite
Carbonite launched its Online Backup service in May 2006. Carbonite’s industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. Since 2006, the company has backed up more than 25 billion files, has restored more than 2 billion lost files for its customers and has a large data center where capacity is measured in petabytes. There are Carbonite users in more than 120 countries.

Founded in 2005, Carbonite believes that computer users should not have to think about backup. The company’s mission is to provide an affordable, reliable, secure and easy-to-use solution for the mainstream computer user. Carbonite is available to consumers and small businesses through numerous channels, including its corporate Web site, major US retailers and international distributors. For more information, please visit www.carbonite.com.

Media Contact
Tim Wieland
Airfoil PR for Carbonite
248-304-1414
wieland@airfoilpr.com

SOURCE Carbonite Inc.

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