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Cloud vs. On-Prem: Why CPA Firms Are Moving to the Cloud
For many CPA firms, IT infrastructure has historically been an afterthought—something managed in-house with minimal investment beyond basic security and compliance needs. But as firms grow, expand services and adopt…
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Security Principles Leading MSPs Are Following
As Netgain’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), I field ongoing questions regarding our security posture – not surprising given the growing intensity and frequency of cyberattacks. As a security-conscious organization,…
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How Innovation Is Helping to Streamline M&A Activity and What the Future Looks Like
M&A activity has been on the rise in public accounting over the past few years. In particular, large public accounting firms are increasingly acquiring firms that have complementary client niches…
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2021 CPA Firm Trends Key Takeaways from a Summer of Discussions
This summer has been a whirlwind of meetings and conferences, most of them in person as a refreshing change. As the COVID Delta Variant threatens to send us backward in…
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The Changing Role of Internal IT : How Accelerating Cloud Computing Drives Strategic Initiatives
For internal IT teams at the nation’s CPA firms, their role and responsibilities have grown substantially over the past decade. From the expansion of the number of applications they need…
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7 Questions to Ask a Prospective Cloud Partner to Ensure Project Success
Last week, we explored seven questions to ask your prospective cloud providers as you’re doing your due diligence for your leadership team. This week, we’re going to explore seven more questions. Ensuring…
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The Sunsetting of the Private Cloud
At the rate that business changes, technology seems to change three times faster. As quickly as mainframe computers started taking some of the workload decades ago, the personal computer came…
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Business Continuity During COVID-19
When people think of business continuity, they usually think of their business being disrupted by a natural disaster like a hurricane, tornado, or flood. COVID-19 came into our lives in…
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The CPA Firm Growth Changer – Leveraging Public Cloud for Working at Home
Originally published May 19, 2020 by Bill Sorenson, VP of Strategy FinTech – CISO, Netgain at www.boomer.com. COVID-19 impacts to the industryWhat a tax season! Last Fall we could never…
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Cloud vs. On-Premise Cost Comparison
Forrester Research forecasted that healthcare IT budgets would increase by nearly 9% this year, due to an increasing investment in technology. Similarly, research-giant Gartner agreed with the forecasted growth, but…
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Why Cloud Technology Enables Top-Line Growth in CPA and Accounting Firms
We had a great time as a guest on a recent webinar hosted by Jim Boomer, CEO of Boomer Consulting. Jim sat down with our VP of Financial Services Strategy,…
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How a Hybrid Cloud Enables Hardware-Free IT
If you’ve been following along (and we hope you have been), you’ve heard us talk about the Zero-Footprint Movement and how to plan for transitioning to a no-hardware IT environment.…
