One thing that accounting software resellers and accounting firms in common is that all want to reach QuickBooks users. And an Intuit reseller has come up with a QuickBooks Conference Kit for any organization that wants to hold events for QuickBooks end users.

Rival CCH is in the middle of rolling out Intelliconnect, a new tax research platform that utilizes search technology being implemented across the business of its parent Wolters Kluwer. And Thomson Reuters, has similar new platforms ready to hit its Legal and Markets divisions. But Thomson Reuters' Tax & Accounting business doesn't have a major research platform rewrite planned, according to Teresa Mackintosh, SVP of the CS Professional Suite.

Intuit has officially introduced a Web-based professional tax preparation product that it has said earlier this year would been ready for use for tax season. The major news in this announcement was that Intuit revealed pricing for the product, which is not based on the same code base as either its desktop Lacerte or ProSeries tax packages.