Quickbooks Hosting : The Future of Intuit—and NovelASPect

Last week, Joe Woodard—an expert in the field of QuickBooks Hosting, use and support—wrote an interesting piece on the future of Intuit for the online tax and accounting news website Accounting Today. Woodard is the president of Creative Financial Software (CFS), a company that provides QuickBooks implementation, training, and consultation services for small businesses, and he has a lot to say about what Intuit is doing now and what it should do going forward in order to maintain its position as the leading company in SMB accounting technology.

In his article, “Projecting the Intuit QuickBooks World of Tomorrow,” Woodard argues that Intuit’s decision to partner with hosting companies (like NovelASPect) rather than to offer QuickBooks hosting services directly is the right one. For one, he says, Intuit’s core business model does not include hosting—and there’s no reason that it should right now. The technology is already completely developed and is readily available within the market, he explains, and Intuit’s decision to forge partnerships with the strongest hosting companies out there means that rather than insisting upon building its own hosting capabilities (thereby delaying access for its clients), they’ve already managed to make QuickBooks hosting the mainstay of their cloud strategy—a move that has not only benefited Intuit, but its customers as well.

As one of the companies that has been approved by Intuit as a hosting partner, we’ve seen firsthand at NovelASPect how beneficial their program has been for everyone involved. For one, NovelASPect employs a third-party company, MSPAlliance, to review companies and ensure that their facilities, technology, and services are secure, private, and reliable before granting them accreditation and entry to the Commercial Hosting Program. Not only does this give clients peace of mind, it rewards those companies that have worked hard to build and maintain a safe, secure hosting environment by allowing us to announce ourselves as authorized Intuit partners.

In addition to Intuit, we also partner with Citrix, whose technology enables us to provide a more scalable, on-demand computing model. With our Intuit partnership alone, we would be able to provide our customers with full anytime, anywhere access to their QuickBooks data; with our Citrix platform, we are able to offer our clients all of that plus an incredible amount of IT control and flexibility. At the end of the day, this translates into increased productivity and reduced expenses for our clients.

Since day one, NovelASPect has been changing the way small businesses access data around the world, and that continues to be our mission. As long as we’re here, we’ll keep on growing and evolving to meet the needs of our current and future users.

(To see what else Joe Woodard has to say about the future of Intuit, you can read the full article discussed above here.)