Mat,

Great Plains is one that I am looking at - or at least plan to look at. Our software is operational management for advertsiing/marketing industry.

What I really want is an accounting system to FULLY INTEGRATE with ours so that I can sell the whole thing as "one product" - paying some sort of royalty to the accounting software company per sale . I prefer to partner with someone - not just be another VAR or reseller for them.

Short of that - if I have to take the reseller/VAR approach - I want someone who meets the following criteria:

1) Is easy technically to integrate with - this means basically that there is some sort of API - access to SQL stored Procs, etc. that would allow me to easily post to the GL, AR etc.
2) Is a solid company with a solid, mature, stable product.
3) Is easy to work with from a business/partnering standpoint
4) has an affordable product without the "Amway" approach of "getting" to sell it for them.
5) has solid developer/partner tech support system

Thanks,
Ken




>>Hi all,
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>>Is anyone aware of any financial accounting products based on SQL Server (other than VAM)? VFP on the front end is not a requirement though it would be nice. What is necessary is the ability/right to read/write data to/from the backend from my own applications and to distribute the accounting system as an add on to my product - for a royalty of course.
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>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>>Thanks,
>>Ken
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>Ken,
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>What kind of product do you have? I am currently enhancing our product (fixed asset software) to be SQL server. I will be looking at Accounting packages next year for similar reasons. I wonder if we could be of help to one another?
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>We are a registered VAR of Great Plains, Solomon and Timberline. We currenly have some custom interface code that exchanges data through text files, but plan on greatly expanding on this through ODBC or COM.
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>Kind Regards,
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>Mat