Bean Counter or Trusted Advisor?
Accountants understand better than most the cost benefit of proper technology and data management. In fact, accountants set the standards that IT follow: SAS 70. So it's been established that by recommending technology options that increase efficiency and improve ROI, accountants elevate themselves from mere bean counters to a client's trusted advisor.

Uni-Data's hosting and server virtualization provide exellent value for the application and data hosting needs of small and medium enterprises, often eliminating the need for an on-premises server array. Shared server options for appropriate situations allow costs to be driven out of client infrastructure.

Moreover, Uni-Data provides hosting, co-location and virtualization in our SAS 70 Type II facilitiy, enabling us to provide accountants and their clients complete redundancy and replication for business continuity best practices and to address issues of compliance.

A simple way to Start.
Hosted QuickBooks® by Uni-Data & Communications gives accountants the capability to keep client accounting files where both parties can access them securely— using the current, supported versions of QuickBooks® Pro, Premier or Enterprise.

What’s more, with clients utilizing a secure, regularly backed up SAS 70 Type II data center hosted file, you'll be setting your client on the path to financial data management best-practices. Add in the fact that the perpetual software subscription option keeps their software current with the latest updates and features, and enables them to reduce their overall IT spend by hosting their employee desktop applications in the cloud and eliminates the need for a fileserver, well then you’ve really got a great piece of advice to give, don’t you?

And the benefits to your firm will be lucrative as well—your support staff will no longer go through the regular headache of getting an accountant’s copy, converting it to the proper version for your use, resaving and uploading it to the clients when the work’s complete—you can access their live data  in real-time,  execute your functions, time and user stamped, and  move to the next task.  Moreover, Uni-Data’s referral program can reduce your firms overall expenditure on QuickBooks® licensing.

QuickBooks® Advisors™ will know that they now have the opportunity to self-host from the newsgroups and forums, so you may be going through a "build or buy" decision right now. Our investment into this platform, replete with redundant power and bandwidth, SAS70 Type II certification, Remedy™ driven Network Operations Center, advanced failover over and ITIL™ best-practices—makes the intake and conversion of your clientelle a painless migration, with costs wholly absorbed into a monthly per-seat subscription fee. No upfront investment, no set-up charges. Easy account maintainance and 24 x7 support by screened and trained personnel.

Uni-Data is "the brain's behind the best networks" in the financial services industry: we currently provide support for over 44, 000 desktops and thousands of servers nationwide for Fortune 100 banks, insurance companies, and investment firms. You've seen our ads in Crain's, heard us on the radio; and if you live or work in the New York City area, you've definitely encountered our company through the many services we provide to transportation, entertainment, cultural instituions and private business—Uni-Data and our parent Unity International Group are as ubiquitous to big business as a service provider can hope to achieve. 

So if you're ready to partner with a trusted team in financial data management, call us at (718) 445-5600 x3180. Ask for Bob Babcock.