Intuit, Salesforce.com Announce Strategic Alliance to Offer Customer Relationship Management to 4 Million QuickBooks Customers

I've had quite a few calls on how the recent announcement of Intuit and Salesforce's Strategic Alliance and if or how this would effect InterWeave's Salesforce to QuickBooks Smart Solution. First, we would would like to commend both companies on an alliance that make sense not only for the companies, but more importantly, their customer base. Salesforces typical customer is not the small SMB that you will find in the Intuit Marketplace, but this offering will now allow them to start understanding the power of integrated CRM (front office) and their Financial application (back office).

A major contributing attribute is the acceleration of the adoption of social, mobile and open cloud CRM solutions into small businesses. There is a learning and adoption curve here, but packing a combined solution will ease the way for many small business owners.

And now to the question of how or will this effect InterWeave's Salesforce_QuickBooks Smart Solution. The answer is yes. Firstly, it will provide members of the Intuit Marketplace the entry into what CRM, Social Media and Accounting, when combined, provide to the business, the owners and the customers. Secondly, when the customer is looking to take the next step; to look at integration with eCommerce, ERP, eMail, MSSQL, Telephony and on, in a configurable setting where business process and workflow can be defined by the customer - this is where InterWeave Smart Solutions come in. We look forward to meeting them

Best Regards,

Bruce

Bruce Magown
CEO

RemoteLink 6.x to Quickbooks Real-time Integration - Project of the Month on Sugar Forge

Congratulations to our Sugar OEM Partner Remotelink

Description of project

This solution provides real-time, bi-directional integration between Sugar 6.x (including on-demand) and Quickbooks. Create itemized QB Invoices directly from Sugar Quotes/Products, synchronize Sugar Account and QB Customer information and much more.

Trove Info
Application Integration, Opportunity Mgmt, Quotes and Products
Development Status 5 - Production/Stable
Intended Audience Other Audience, System Administrators
License Other/Proprietary License
Natural Language English
Operating System OS Independent
Programming Language Other
Sugar Edition Sugar Community Edition, Sugar Enterprise, Sugar Professional
Sugar Versions Version 6.0, Version 6.1

Why are you a leading contributor in the SugarCRM community? What are the benefits that you experience from your involvement?

RemoteLink, a SugarCRM Gold Partner, is new to the SugarCRM community; however, we have been developing custom software and providing infrastructure services since 1995. We hope this project is the start of a long-term and mutually beneficial relationship with the SugarCRM community.

What inspired you to create this project?

We noticed some duplication of effort and some manual data translation in our own internal processes between our SugarCRM and Quickbooks instances. We leveraged this opportunity to make our own internal processes more efficient, and developed the solution as a commercially available product.

What business pain points were you solving specifically?

At various points in the sales cycle, there is data that needs to be transferred from SugarCRM to Quickbooks. In the absence of a true integration solution, this data has to be transferred manually between the two systems. This manual data translation leads to operational delays, errors in translation, and ultimately longer and less efficient cycle times for customers.

Additionally, when sales people need access to real-time financial data about a customer, they require a separate login to Quickbooks in order to obtain this information. This wastes time, as the sales person has to log into a separate system, and money, as additional Quickbooks licenses have to be purchased.

Is there anything that the users should know about those? Something hidden/new in this project? Think of this as an opportunity to describe how it works to a user?

Our base package is designed to perform the most common data translations with the touch of a custom button in SugarCRM. Detailed, itemized Quickbooks invoices are created from the SugarCRM Quote and available SugarCRM Products. Customer information, including account balance and 30/60/90 aging data, are synchronized between SugarCRM and Quickbooks.

Optional packages add automatic, real-time synchronization, and add additional, synchronized data translations between SugarCRM and Quickbooks. Available data translations include:

* Sugar Account/Contact <-> QB Customer
* Sugar Product <-> QB Item
* Sugar Opportunity <-> QB Job
* Sugar Quote (customer-level) <-> QB Invoice, Sales Order, Sales Receipt and Estimate
* Sugar Account/Contact <-> QB Vendor
* Sugar Quote (vendor-level) <-> QB Bill, Check, Purchase Order

What do you want to build next for Sugar?

We plan to release eCommerce, ePayment and Google integrations for Sugar 6.x in the near future.

InterWeave Smart OEM Solutions”; now our SaaS Enterprise Information Integration platform, InterWeave, is available for our customers

New York – March 22, 2010. Integration Technologies, Inc.(IT), the market and technology leader in the Smart Solutions technology industry, today announced the availability of the “InterWeave Smart OEM Solutions“. Smart OEM Solutions provide an environment to build, test, deploy and run Solutions that connect and integrate data and functionality across different Portals regardless of the language or technology in which they where developed. Smart OEM Solutions are available in four models.

* Hybrid - Hybrid provides the InterWeave integration platform portal and your solutions for your customers. Customers log in, select their solutions, define their configurations and create their flows. Once completed, log into the portal, set your flows scheduled intervals and your solutions are running. It's a complete SaaS hosted service for your solutions.

* Run Time - Run Time is a complete integration platform portal and solutions with all components running in your environment. Your customers log in, select their solutions, define their configurations and create their flows. Once completed, log into the portal, set your flows scheduled intervals and your solutions are running.

* Run Time with IDE Professional - Run Time plus IDE Professional gives you all the components above, plus the Integration Development Environment (IDE) which provides the ability to create and publish your own solutions in your portal.

* Run Time with IDE Enterprise - Run Time plus IDE Enterprise gives you all the components above, plus the ability to create and publish your own solutions in separate customer or vertical portals to expand your customer offerings.

"By providing four models of Smart OEM Solutions; from Hybrid to Run Time with IDE Enterprise, our customers can create Portals (with multiple Solutions) that operate seamlessly with the cloud and on-premise deployment models." said Bruce Magown, CEO, Integration Technologies, Inc. "Customers can now create their own public/private cloud Portals (with multiple Solutions) that integrate with other public/private cloud Portals(with multiple Solutions) and with on-premise applications too". "We've provided the ultimate flexibility for our customers in the cloud." said Magown.

“Regarding our Smart Solutions, you don’t need to be a technical resource, analyst or developer. We supply the Smart Solution, the servers, the solution specialist personnel, but most important; we supply the application knowledge at a process, data and technical level through years of working with them - in configurable form.” Said Bruce Magown, CEO of Integration Technologies, Inc. This is available today. There are a variety of InterWeave Smart Solutions available; from CRM, Financial, ERP, eCommerce, Billing, Telephony, Customer Service and more. Contact us at 203 274 5226, email sales@interweave.biz or go to www.interweave.biz for more information.