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Intuit is holding a 15-city tour this month under the name, QuickBooks Connect Local. The free events use the Connect name from the company's first QuickBooks conference last fall. Events will offer training and certification and there will be presentations by software vendors and well-known industry speakers.

The staff of The Progressive Accountant wishes our readers a happy holiday season. This is the last newsletter that will you will receive in 2014. Delivery of the e-newsletter will resume on Wednesday January 7. However, articles of interest to the tax and accountng community will continue to be published at www.theprogressiveaccountant.com during the interim.

This was somewhat the year of the cloud when it comes to the 2014 VAR Stars. A bare majority—51—of the Value-added Resellers that handle mid-market acounting software products are carrying true Internet-based financial applications. So the cloud is far from being the entire story in this market.

 


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SmartVault, which makes online document storage, has received $4.5 million in second-round funding. The investors include the founders of CyrusOne and original investors in Softlayer. The company said the capital will enable it to accelerate development of its core offering and to scale operations to support its integration of the online storage capability with Intuit's Lacerte and ProSeries professional tax preparation products.