A reporting tools riddle: what’s faster than your hand, a calculator, and a file cabinet worth of documents? Before you answer that one, try another. What’s faster than two software applications that need data exported or converted to make a report? If you guessed ERP software, congratulations. You get a prize. As you may already... Read More

When your business started, desktop accounting software (DAS) might have been the ideal solution. The leading applications seemed powerful, especially compared to old-school accounting: sales receipts, pencil sharpeners, and hand-held calculators. As technology and accounting software have evolved, more applications have migrated to the cloud. Some accounting programs such as Quickbooks are leaving users feeling... Read More

Your cabinets are overstuffed. You’ve filed things incorrectly: receipts, bills, service agreements, invoices. If your document isn’t in the right place, you don’t just have to go through one folder. You have to go through all of them. We all keep records, and whether we have home offices or just a filing cabinet, losing important... Read More

We love to be busy. We’re constantly scheduling, calling, emailing, meeting, reviewing. The list goes on. Conventional wisdom says that the busier we are, the more we accomplish. But if we’re always running around, when do we have time to actually think and plan for what we want to get done? How can we come... Read More

Every organization wants a good workplace culture, and we often assume that good people are the key to getting it. Colleagues who can communicate well work better in teams. Those who share and report data can lend clarity to projects and help define roles within them. But what happens when “good people” are slowed down,... Read More

You dial the 800 number. You wait. A pre-recorded message greets you, slowly describing your options. None of them are even close to what you need. You press zero in hopes of an operator. You’re greeted by another recorded message. All operators are busy. Your wait time is approximately: longer than you planned to spend... Read More