Here are seven reasons that differentiate Intacct from other enterprise accounting software, and why it makes a difference to your business:

1. Cloud: Pure & Reliable – 100% Cloud, with a 99.99% 12 month availability average. How do those %’s translate? Cost savings from no software, hardware, updates, or remote access setup required for the typical fake cloud (hosted software) offerings from Microsoft and company. Also, think of the amount of work you can get done from anywhere, with virtually no downtime.

2. Product Innovation – Updates are released quarterly, and always support customizations you’ve made. Updates are the propriety of all users, and don’t require you to manually apply them. Microsoft and other legacy systems are bound to paid-for releases, manual updates, and require their partners to own the customization they’ve applied to your software.

3. Best in Class Approach – Intacct concentrates its efforts on cutting edge accounting and reporting features. Hence, “best-in-class financials.” It also focuses on opening-up its system to integrate with other “best of” software, like CRM from Salesforce. The resulting, “Best in Class” approach, takes advantage of the best functionality from different software vendors.

4. Excellence in Reporting – Intacct’s architecture, including dimensions, multi-journal, and multi-book, and features like flex reporting, support users in their quest to create highly detailed financials and metrics. From these underlying features come custom dashboards, which support your real time analysis of business results, risks, and opportunities.

5. Ace in the Hole Features – For companies who need multi-entity consolidation, revenue recognition and contract management, integration, custom workflows, and specialized financial reporting, Intacct provides a competitive advantage. Why? They solve complex business requirements, but are easier to implement, and more flexible than the competitors.

6. Growth – According to Red Herring, Intacct is one of the fastest growing privately held companies. Vibrant growth translates into more product innovation, customer-based improvements, and financial health. It validates a shift to the Cloud, and a positive future for users like you, who depend on partners working to innovate as fast as you do.

7. Happy Customers – In December, 2014 G2Crowd announced that Intacct has the highest satisfaction in the Accounting Software category based on end-user reviews. With nearly 120 customer reviews on G2Crowd, Intacct is positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the latest G2Crowd’s Accounting Software Products Grid. Happy is good.

• Buy with Confidence Guarantee – You want a service level agreement that really means something? Intacct provides assurances: 99.8% uptime, 2 hour data loss limit, and your ownership of the underlying data.  And, for any customization or integration you’ve built, that they will continue to work as originally designed after updates. All guaranteed in writing.
• World-Class Security – Intacct applications and data are maintained by Savvis in redundant data centers, with the most comprehensive physical and electronic safeguards. Not a JV level service provider.
• AICPA Preferred Provider – The American Institute of CPAs selected Intacct as its preferred provider of financial applications for it’s GAAP-compliance, internal controls, and financial reporting capabilities. No other accounting software system.
• Controls to Meet Sox Compliance – Intacct sponsors transaction approvals, custom workflows, and audit trails to help companies prove a standard of internal controls exist. All essential in a Sox audit.
• NDH Assessment & Project Plan – As your partner, we assess whether your business requirements can be met by Intacct before the sale, model them, and then incorporate them into your project plan.  We aim to stop buyer’s remorse.

To make different applications work well together, there must be a common host or common gateway to allow them to interface. Sage Intacct acts as a common host for Marketplace Applications and Pre-integrated Solutions, and maintains a common gateway (Sage Intacct Web Services) for integration to other business applications, like your e-commerce site. Integration, as considered here, solves large scale data sharing needs, eliminates multiple databases, and reduces duplicate tasks, often data entry. Additional details of these solutions include:

• Marketplace Applications – These are 3rd party applications or modules, purchased separately, but accessed from your Intacct desktop (a menu option). They include solutions for payroll processing, sales tax management, and CRM integration. They’re hosted by Intacct, share data directly into the Intacct database, and often allow you to outsource complex processing (E.G. tax and regulatory compliance).
• Preintegrated Solutions – The Holy Grail of integration or “middleware” written and maintained by Intacct, which allows you to connect directly with other applications, like Salesforce, or a third party service such as American Express check delivery. They offer the greatest ease of use, the least effort to bring live, and the most immediate payback. Users are able to subscribe to these offerings directly through their Intacct Partner.
• Intacct Web Services – A dedicated application program interface (API) for programming “talk” between Intacct and your other applications. Intacct’s web service APIs offer flexibility when integrating, giving your developers access to a majority of the Intacct objects (meaning they can programmatically address practically anything done by manual keystrokes). Web services are maintained by Intacct, with a strong developer community promoting their use.

Hitting the mark of good integration means the following benefits:

• Quick Payback – Reduce manual work processes, thus lowering staff hours and costs
• Fast Deployment – Expedite the setup and configuration process, giving you fast access
• Everywhere Access – Eliminate hosting and maintenance concerns, with the power of the Cloud
• Accelerated Workflow – Integrated into your work processes, through easy access menu options
• Forward Compatibility – Update with other Intacct system changes, avoiding reimplementation
• Redundancy Eliminated – Share a common database and data model -reducing duplication

“Intacct’s software updates have been seamless and have had no impact, other than delivering new capabilities, during our 3+ years of adding hundreds of Intacct customers using dozens of integration points and associated features.” (Neil Wainwright, CEO, Nexonia)

• Amex Payment Services – Paper check payments executed by American Express, and selected straight from your Intacct Pay Bills screen. Eliminate all check stock supplies, and staff time to prepare manual checks. The cost makes it a no-brain.
• Avalara – Manages all sales tax calculations, form submittal, and payment remittances to applicable tax jurisdictions. Integrates directly into Intacct through sales invoice transactions. Time saving for any company with multi-state tax obligations.
• Online Payment Receipt – Processes online payment receipts using Authorize.net or Paypal. Gives you one-step maintenance, and electronic receipts processing, without the need to prove PCI compliance for your organization.
• Ameriflex Payroll – Payroll, HR, and time entry managed by a full-service payroll provider, with all resulting payroll entries posted to Intacct. Supports detailed payroll entries using a full-range of dimensions, including department, class, location, etc.
• IntacctMax for Salesforce – Manage customers, items, prices, and other objects from a common record set shared between Intacct and Salesforce. Post sales invoices from Salesforce into Intacct, and allow your sales staff to access charge and payment history related to their accounts.
• Nexonia Expenses – Submit expense reports using Nexonia’s app for iPhone or Android, with direct integration to Intacct. Employees capture receipts, credit card transactions, and mileage, for approval and conformity to company expense policies, before automated posting to Intacct.

• Staffing – Reduce or eliminate staff from greater efficiency of workflows
• Accuracy of Financial Reporting – Increase financial reporting accuracy using custom transaction definitions
• Detail of Financial Reports – Segment data and reports according to seven standard dimensions, and unlimited optional dimensions
• Actionable Financial Information – Use dashboards to get immediate visibility of your financial position and results
• Internal Controls – Use system audit logs, approvals, and role-based permissions to substantiate a practice of internal controls
• Scale – Manage your long-term strategy for revenue, employee, entity, and/or international market growth without the need to migrate