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The BizExcelerator from BizNet Software — www.biznetsoftware.com
The BizExcelerator, an Excel-based financial reporting and analytics product, provides simple, yet powerful financial reporting and business intelligence capabilities to help accountants do their jobs more efficiently. Businesses with investments in Excel or those who wish to do custom financials easily should consider this product. BizExcelerator ensures that data in Excel is accurate, reduces month-end close time, leverages time in existing spreadsheet reports, and has multi-dimensional drilldown for rapid detail transaction access. The BizExcelerator is delivered by a network of GL partners who provide personalized service. Your company can choose the extent of services needed for implementation.

MISys — www.misysinc.com
MISys Small Business Manufacturing (MISys SBM) is geared to the needs of manufacturing firms that manufacture a discrete product consisting of a number of raw materials and subassemblies. Functionality within the product will appeal to make-to-stock manufacturers, make-to-order manufacturers and custom job manufacturers. MISys SBM can be run stand-alone or integrated with many of the most popular accounting software systems to form a complete manufacturing business management system. The basic functionality of MISys SBM addresses the needs of small manufacturing firms with fewer than 50 employees. Optional modules allow the product to easily scale to larger manufacturing firms with 100+ employees. MISys also offers a monthly rental plan for prospective users with cash flow constraints. The rental agreement requires no up-front commitment and can be bought out at any time with 80 percent of rental fees applied as a credit to the purchase price.

MISys SBM is a modular product, currently with seven separate modules: Basic Manufacturing, Advanced Purchasing, Advanced Production, Material Requirements Planning, Bin Tracking, Bar Coding and Serial/Lot Tracking. MISys SBM’s strengths include Serial/Lot Tracking for manufacturers (complies with FDA and FAA), enhanced integration with QuickBooks 2008 and Microsoft Office Accounting 2008, manufacturing inventory control with unlimited locations, and Material Requirements Planning with visual timeline. As well, it is built on the Microsoft SQL Server and .NET platform.

Fishbowl Inventory — www.fishbowlinventory.com
Fishbowl Inventory is suitable for a small to medium-size company running QuickBooks that needs advanced inventory control, or it can be used as a stand-alone system running on Linux or Windows. The system handles all the inventory requirements while posting transactions directly to your QuickBooks application. Strengths of the product include its QuickBooks integration, Multi-Location Part Tracking, Order Management for Sales and Purchasing, and Pick, Pack and Ship handling.

BillQuick — www.bqe.com
BillQuick is a flexible Time Billing and Project Management software. It is fully customizable to fit your specific needs and is the result of countless suggestions made by service industry professionals. It includes more than 400 standard invoices and reports, allowing you to meet the requirements of your most demanding clients and providing the in-depth analysis tools needed to optimize all aspects of your business. BillQuick integrates with Quick-Books and Microsoft Office Accounting.