The era of modernizing is the real world where most of the businesses are seeking flexible frameworks & reliable innovations for their progress. Where most of the accounting industries are amazed by innovations like cloud computing & online working portals, a majority of users residing in the same industry aren't aware of its complexities. For already accessing users of Intuit's QuickBooks desktop editions, integrating data to web-based software approach seems to be one of the most exquisite options for excelling in the marketplace.
Fortunately, the cloud-based QuickBooks give ease-of-accessing data over cloud network, ease-of-operating files from any device & OS and ease-of-collaborating with team members from anyplace & at any time but still lacks many features that are required by a QuickBooks desktop edition user. In order to host QuickBooks desktop edition to cloud network, an authentic hosting provider is a must who installs & manages software & company data files on their cloud-based servers.
It is true that user will no longer need to install QuickBooks software on their PC, as the Internet is enough to access both, software & data files on server's cloud network. Though, after having this much ease, the user still needs the initial underlying technologies ie Windows on the local machine & QuickBooks software.
Distinct from True SaaS or Cloud-based Application Approach!
QuickBooks hosting is somehow a different approach from that of SaaS or cloud-based based applications. SaaS, Software as a Service is a web-based application solution or model where a single application and data framework is available which serves almost all users. For particular software, the web-based application can be taken as a service and the exact infrastructure in support is hidden from the user. On the other hand, hosted QuickBooks service works with its initial QuickBooks desktop editions as designed by Intuit. So the initial requirements including the PC-based installation of software, deployment of the application as per user & consumption of more resources will be still there with the cloud-based hosting approach.
Eventually, SaaS is a cost-efficient architecture for users in which functionalities like system redundancy and fault tolerance are inbuilt in the solution itself. Whereas hosted QuickBooks approach is comparatively higher and offers complexity to its users.
Choosing the Right & Wise Move for Your Business!
Users who are considering shifting from locally-installed QuickBooks to hosted QuickBooks desktop editions as a wise move might fall abruptly if continues without embracing the right volume of knowledge. Yes, that's true! The shifting is proving beneficial for most of the businesses but only for as long as they aren't getting aware of technologies like SaaS. Usually, for both small-sized & medium-sized businesses, it is advisory to cognize the depth of perks before fascinating with the width of features.
There are numerous other perspectives which are predicting the concept of hosting with QuickBooks application, which is complicating the process of being a web-based cloud network business:
- Issue of Licensing: Licensing is the hardest task to convey by any third party service providers as installing the authentic software licensing level & give proper set-up to multiple levels of software asks preciseness which is somehow difficult to offer by all. Many times the service provider implements the same procedure in order to fulfill the installation process and does not focus on a particular business needs which provide a generic setup to each user unwittingly.
- Verdict of Third Party Applications: Intuit itself checks each company before allowing them to offer hosting services to QuickBooks users. The companies are thus authentic to Intuit and are often known as third party service providers in the market. It is mandatory to evaluate the risks that might conquer while integrating your business data with any hosting provider. The risks are majorly confronting the users only when platforms and hosting software aren't fully licensed.
- Maze of Multiple User Performance & Number of Servers: Initially, the QuickBooks desktop version was not designed to run by multiple users over single PC until the presence of QuickBooks hosting comes in the notice. Many times while working on the same cloud-network it is quite hard for multi-users to get their command done as less availability of command-handler makes the workability strict and thus takes much time to complete the task. Hosting provider, in order to solve the scenario, allows more servers to the same number of users being in the working environment- which subsequently make the task delivery process complex & expensive.
So these three main practices that mostly become complications for third-party hosting providers are the reason making QuickBooks hosting a complex process for most of the businesses. The integration goes inflow until the user itself gets acknowledged with any scarcity of provider. But once the user gets to know his worth, he finds the whole process complicated.
Tina S Smith
