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The Best Free Small Business Accounting Software
Posted Jul 19 2012 by James Sullivan
One of the most-asked questions within the Business-Software.com community remains, “What are the best alternatives to QuickBooks for small business accounting?” A site contributor set out to find the best answer and share the top-rated ... Read More
1010data Delivers Big Data as a Cloud-based Spreadsheet
Posted Jul 18 2012 by N. Rowan
1010data doesn't believe good technology needs to be complex. Their Big Data analytical solution is a trillion-row spreadsheet that lives in the cloud, paving the way for a future where data analysis is shared between ... Read More
The Search for a New CRM, Part 2: Researching Solutions
Posted Jul 18 2012 by Darlene Lin
In this second installation of our “Search for a New CRM” series, we research and discuss possible alternatives to our current CRM system, Zoho. Our needs have been identified and desired solution features outlined; the ... Read More
PaaS Explained: Benefits & Key Players
Posted Jul 17 2012 by N. Rowan
Platform-as-a-Service offers a cloud computing environment equipped with a solution stack to create your own applications. Whereas IaaS concerns infrastructure (servers, databases, etc.) and SaaS are fully developed solutions, PaaS enables users to build their ... Read More
Freshdesk Breathes New Life Into Your Stuffy Help Desk
Posted Jul 17 2012 by Amanda Andonian
After reading an article in 2010 about user outrage toward ZenDesk's price hikes, Girish Mathrubootham got the idea to start Freshdesk. The Freshdesk approach to help desk software and services is to provide its customers ... Read More
Cloudera Applies Open Source Philosophy to Big Data Analytics
Posted Jul 16 2012 by Mark Aspillera
These days it’s hard to read about Big Data or the business intelligence segment without seeing the name “Hadoop” come up, and with good reason. Hadoop is a software framework geared towards the creation of ... Read More
Business Software Week in Review: Week of July 9-13, 2012
Posted Jul 13 2012 by N. Rowan
Business Software Week in Review gathers the most interesting news items from the past week in one convenient post. Go into the weekend knowing you didn't miss anything important this week. Read our business software ... Read More
Wildfire Interactive Provides Marketing for the Social World
Posted Jul 13 2012 by Amanda Andonian
Five years ago, when Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard were building and running Access Travel, Ltd., they realized that there just weren't any online software solutions that could help them create things like Facebook contests ... Read More
Mobile Business App: Google Drive Review
Posted Jul 12 2012 by Darlene Lin
With Google Drive, Google has entered the cloud storage market, competing with established players like Dropbox and Box.net. Google Drive lets you upload and access your files from anywhere—everything from documents to PDFs to videos, ... Read More
Atlassian Revamps ALM With Customer Service Focus
Posted Jul 12 2012 by Mark Aspillera
Atlassian, a top ALM software vendor, began like many other Silicon Valley startups, with two college dropouts who shared an aversion to corporatized software development. Jira is Atlassian's flagship program, which, as a top application ... Read More