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Accounting for the Future

In conjunction with a data center move, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants AICPA sought to consolidate 250 Web and application servers onto a scalable server and storage infrastructure and improve online service availability. By combining Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell/EMC storage, and VMware virtualization software, the AICPA reduced its...

Tags: Accounting, Dell Computer Corp., AICPA, Storage, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

Dell Helps American Institute of CPAs Improve Online Services to Members While Saving Over $3 Million

The AICPA sought to consolidate 250 Web and application servers onto a scalable server and storage infrastructure to accompany a data center move. The association also wanted to improve availability of online member services. By using a combination of Dell servers, Dell/EMC storage and virtualization software from VMware, the AICPA...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., AICPA, Virtualization, Storage, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2008-10-01

More disclosure problems. This time with missing CPA data

Is it beginning to seem like nary a day goes by without news of some chunk of data being lost, stolen, or breached? Much the same way lack of disclosure is the story that's almost as big as news of the breach itself with the recent hacking of...

Tags: AICPA

Blog posts 2006-06-08

A Paperless Success Story

During the 1997 tax season, Atlanta firm Habif, Arogeti & Wynne LLP (HA&W) suffered so many technical problems that afterward about one-third of its professionals left. The firm decided to revamp its tax function and better manage its resources by developing a technology plan. The initiative led to a paperless...

Tags: AICPA, Consulting, Taxes, Free Trade, Outsourcing, Financial Planning, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Case studies 2003-10-01

A Strategy for Finding the Right Accounting Software

Shopping for accounting software is difficult. The software must be just the right size, it shouldn't contain more or fewer features than you need and you should feel secure that its publisher will be able to provide upgrades and fix bugs as needed. It's not enough to examine the package's...

Tags: Strategy, Accounting, AICPA, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

White papers 2003-09-01

Additional Resources

Why Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are racing to run your data center

Why Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are racing to run your data centerOld news repackagedCloud and utility computing which might be one and the same are a multibillion dollar business in 2009. Are you guys for real about reporting this like news? We have been running our business at...

Tags: Data centers, cloud computing, Network technology, Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., data center

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Accounting vs. Technology - Who's At Fault

Did technology play a role in the financial services meltdown? A columnist for a major IT publication documented his positions on the role of IT in the current financial services meltdown. He asked questions such as “Were the internal IT groups in these firms working on...

Tags: Accounting, Financial, Accounting Industry, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Don't be the next Sarah Palin (security victim, not VP candidate)

Don't be the next Sarah Palin (security victim, not VP candidate)This is why professional org's. such as AICPA...warn the members that using public e-mail services could expose them to possible malpractice law suits if client info is compromised.Use a third party cloud provider and risk everything.You forgot cookiesYahoo! mail was...

Tags: Sarah Palin, security victim, Yahoo! Inc., e-mail, security

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Relief from Sarbanes-Oxley on the way?

Relief from Sarbanes-Oxley on the way?Whats the problem?SOX for dummies:301, Independant auditors have to be independant.302, CFO & CEO have to state the accounts are not bogus.303, Company execs not allowed to coerce or bully independant auditors.304, If officers get a bonus based on false accounts they have to pay...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, issuer

Discussion threads 2005-06-09

Microsoft offers subscription Outlook

Microsoft offers subscription OutlookI don't think so...I don't want anything of mine on their servers, ever. They already control and monitor too much. Linuxmai.org is just fine for me, thankyou very much.As soon as they blocked......Hotmail access in Outlook, I moved to Gmail. That was after leaving Yahoo when...

Tags: E-mail providers, Groupware, Microsoft Office, E-mail servers, e-mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook, server, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-01-20

The CIO time bomb

The CIO time bombBoo hoo, corporate America brought it on itself.If your looking for sympathy you'll find it between Sh*t and Syphilis in the dictionary...well they better learn"Most CIOs still don't know what's expected from them under new Sarbanes-Oxley rules."they could spend a few minutes reading up on it, earn...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SAS Institute, Martha, punishment

Discussion threads 2004-07-29