Bill Jacaruso's blog

I sat through a presentation on integration recently.  "Oh boy!" Although the gentlemen presenting did an excellent job and had great presentation skills, his material was out dated and his techniques were obsolete. "Oh my!"

He explained how integrating business applications could be accomplished by exporting files, then manipulating the files in a spreadsheet and finally importing them into the target application.  "Oh no!"

The list of providers able to deliver reliable and a reasonably priced QuickBooks integration has changed over the last year or two.  The team at Pervasive DataSolutions has watched as new players enter and old players exit.  Many entered this market with little appreciation for the complexity of delivering an integration that connects your QuickBooks to your other business applications, focusing instead on market buzz words and in some cases leveraging technology that just does not fit.  Through it all our Pervasive DataSynch for Microsoft Dynamics

Business integration software today is delivered in different forms; on-premises (OP), hosted, or as a service (SaaS). Many vendors would passionately argue one delivery model over the other, making valid arguments about why one may work better than the others.

Most software companies that have sold a single byte of code have a smart, slick, thought-up-on-Madison-Avenue slogan that tries to convince you they are the right choice. After hearing thousands of these slogans I have realized they are all saying the same thing. From Microsoft talking about your potential and their passion, to Oracle bragging about powering the internet, to Saleforce.com touting the lack of software, they are all transmitting a consistent message: "Let us sell you software because we can deliver it with less pain than the other guys." Notice I did not say "no pain", but "less pain".

Wow! Now we have two, count them, one - two, packaged ready to run integration solutions for Saleforce.com users.Pervasive DataSynch for use with QuickBooks and Salesforce continues to be a hit with small to medium sized businesses. I was recently at lunch with two Salesforce sales professionals that commented how much this product has helped their customers complete the business picture by integrating their accounting and CRM applications, in this case QuickBooks and Salesforce.