When desktop users push the data to the cloud, it "automatically syncs between cloud and desktop, ensuring that information is always up-to-date," says Shari Willman, principal product marketing manager for Sage 50. Although there is license pricing, cloud access is available only by subscription. Sage 50c must be installed on all computers that need to access the cloud.

Sage is offering discounts through February 14 with Pro priced at $20.75 per month; Premium, $24.92 month and Quantum at $99.92 monthly. Pro is a single-user package. Premium is available in one-, three- and five-user versions and Quantum in three-, five- and 10-user editions. Premium adds managing inventory and automating purchase orders to features available in Pro and Quantum also tacks on job tracking and projects and profitability.

The regular monthly subscriptions are as follows: Pro, $29.08; Premium, $45.75; Quantum, $124.92.

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Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards.  Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He  has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind