QuickBooks Online in USA Today

USA Today has a great review of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that many small and medium sized businesses can leverage to conserve capital and lower IT costs.  The article highlights successes that companies like Salesforce.com and Google has had with their online productivity apps.  Rather than running software on you desktop computer, you can take advantage of the full scale and ubiquity of the internate and access you software on the web.  The article highlights QuickBooks Online, the web accounting software, as one of the leading accounting web apps.

Most small-business owners don’t realize this yet, but a mother lode of technology that can free precious cash and manpower is available to them as in no other time in history.
Small firms typically buy basic clerical and accounting software in shrink-wrap boxes and run them on a company computer. The owner, or a harried employee, invariably gets pressed into service as resident tech expert.

But today, they can tap into a swelling portfolio of business applications residing in far-off computer servers. These programs come down from the Internet cloud, sent by a growing army of software companies eager to deliver powerful tools to Web browsers in laptops, netbooks and smartphones. Users pay as they use.

So-called software-as-a-service, or SaaS, has long been available to big companies. Now that computing power has become dirt cheap and Internet usage ubiquitous, software developers are racing to put cutting-edge business apps into the hands of small firms in ways that could give a lift to the economic recovery.

Great article and really speaks to the benefits of online accounting and productivity apps!  Let us know if you find any more reviews or user testimonials.