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Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

caffeinated — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:38:15 GMT

I'm going to piggyback on WannaDevelops post. There is this trend in the industry of "cloud-computing." I do use Google Docs for business and personal. I do wonder though if I should be keeping a backup file in case some sort of disaster occurs.

What does everyone use to backup their files? Has anyone heard of Carbonite or LogMeIn?

-caffeinated

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

Ryan524 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:23:03 GMT

Yes I use Google Apps and love it.

$50 per user per year. I get email, calendar, IM, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Video (which is like my company's own private youtube.)

I actually do IT Consulting and I am a Google Apps Authorized reselller, so if anyone is intereted in Google Apps let me know, checkout my website for contact details.

I also have a webinar comming up where I will be introducing this very concept and Google Apps, I submitted a post to the Business Classifiedes section, but it appears it must be approved before being posted so try checking there in a few days, or contact me for info.

But yeah online software can be a great assest. Particularly when it comes to something like email that would otherwise force you to have your own server, which requires updates, maintenance and can really get expensive fast.

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

markrobinson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:58:50 GMT

Netsuite's online business software is one integrated suite that includes accounting,CRM,ERP,e-commerce and web development.I usually prefer this software for my business.
For more information on this please, visit http://www.suitecommerce.com/ .

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

ITpartner — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:41:42 GMT

Software as a Service � Is it right for my business?

The shift towards *�Software as a Service (SaaS)*� paradigm is accelerating in the industry due to several factors; Not just the cost of having to build and maintain the Technology Infrastructure is significantly lower but more importantly businesses can build what they need on-demand and faster that makes them highly agile and responsive to the market demands.

Today the Infrastructure as well as security have come along way and are quite matured. Fortune 500 firms such as Start bucks and Morgan Stanley run their CRM applications on the cloud using saleforce.com. Microsoft offers Business productivity on-line suite starting at $15 per user / month that provide a bundle of messaging, collaboration & communications software.

You can visit my blog for a list of popular SaaS providers and their offerings at http://seepath.blogspot.com/

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

markrobinson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:52:09 GMT

There are lots of online doftwares are available for the business.But most of the com[anies and i prefer netsuite for my business.

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

bigbearomaha — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:23:56 GMT

How many of the solutions listed as SaaS are OpenSource or are Proprietary? With propretary software, you are using it only the way they offer it to you, "off the rack' so to speak. with OpenSource You can customize it, have it 'tailor made' to fit your needs specifically.

Also to consider, Internet bandwidth is not 'unlimited' the more web based SaaS sites pop up, overall performance will eventually decrease.

Who is to say which of the unscrupulous providers will be combing through client data to sell information because the data is on the providers server and not on the customers?

By the way, interent content is provided by way of hardware servers. It is not a magic app that has no connection to physical hardware. ANY app that can be run over the internet, can also be run from your own, secured, private server for your business, school or non-profit group. You provide the hardware and OpenSource can provide the software for little to no cost on top of it. No license fees, no monthly costs for access.

Once the server is running, it's up and available to you and your staff and customers at your discretion and under your control. Not someone else's.

The best part is, if you are a small business, a school or a non-profit group and you are not sure how to set up a server or maintain it, you can get help with that for free at BEL Project.

Big Bear

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

david_aa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:39:45 GMT

i actively use Google docs in my work.

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

dopestats — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:24:44 GMT

I use a custom software solution that visualizes drug use in America by maintaing a database of reported drug uses and making snapshots of the database on a map that shows each county of the United States. The database reports real-time drug use statistics in 3,140 U.S counties. The software I use was developed to remotely update up to ~16000 images.

http://www.DopeStats.com

Yes,very low cost ERP-CRM,SFA,Time&Billing,Accounting etc)

sonic_ — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:02:00 GMT

My first day in this forum, I was looking around, saw this discussion

I use this,

www.salesorder.com

there's a FREE, fully functional single user version

It's really easy to implement and use

Small business ERP, sort of a cut down version of Netsuite but a third of the price and support is free and quite good.

Like Siondo it works very well

Happy to help you here

Sonic_

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

S.Black — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:52:29 GMT

Wow.., what a great conversation. We recently moved to a managed service, StreetSmart Office, the company is www.infostreet.com, and is miles better then open source that my IT guy talked me into. We had spent 4 months customizing Jomla (I think it's called) to create a simple task/workflow system for our jewelry design company.

So far I like using an Internet software.., although moving our data did take longer then expected. This is where I agree with others about customer support. You HAVE to find a company in the US. One that has solid support.., and are willing to customize their sytem to address a specific workflow for the industry you're in. Otherwise your employees will always complain.

Great topic... keep it going.

Samson