Cloud Workspace Provider itopia Offers Partners Compliant Cloud-based QuickBooks

Cloud workspace-as-a-service provider itopia this week is making it easier for service providers to offer a hugely popular business application to their customers – Intuit’s QuickBooks, certified as compliant with Intuit’s (INTU) QuickBooks software licensing.

Essentially, this enables IT service providers and managed services providers (MSPs) to be QuickBooks application cloud hosts for their customers while remaining compliant with the QuickBooks’ software-licensing program. The cloud provider said the certification is offered for free to all service providers enrolled in itopia’s partner program.

“This new QuickBooks program is another example of our commitment to the channel. It allows our service provider partners to maintain control over clients’ key financial applications, while quickly coming into compliance with Intuit’s licensing requirements,” said itopia CEO Jonathan Lieberman, in a prepared statement.

QuickBooks, is the top financial software package for small- to medium-sized businesses. MSPmentor 501 research shows that 57 percent of the top 501 managed service providers themselves use QuickBooks internally.

Itopia said that its new program is the the fastest, most efficient way to comply with Intuit’s hosting licensing requirements.

In addition, itopia has developed a fully web-based automated process that partners can use to provision QuickBooks users as part of the program, helping to streamline what can be a time-consuming task.

Itopia was recently spotted at the Kaseya Connect conference in Miami.

More information about the program is available at the itopia website.