Financial Applications on the Cloud

Microsoft and Intuit are targeting small businesses by integrating their Cloud Paltforms

Jan. 25, 2010 08:45 AM

QuickBooks is well known among small businesses used in managing their finances.

Microsoft and Intuit are targeting small businesses by integrating their Cloud Platforms. Microsoft will offer its Cloud Platform Windows Azure SDK so that developers can author applications to run Intuit's financial software.

Intuit has named 'Windows Azure" as its "preferred platform" for applications developed on the Intuit Partner Platform.

No friends, no enemies, only eternal interests ($$$$).

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Visit the Intuit Partner site here.

Look out in February for the V1.0 release:

Windows Azure SDK for IPP is currently available as an open beta, with a V1.0 release expected to be available in February 2010.

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About Jayaram Krishnaswamy
Jayaram Krishnaswamy is a technical writer, mostly writing articles that are related to the web and databases. He is the author of SQL Server Integration Services published by Packt Publishers in the UK. His book, 'Learn SQL Server Reporting Services 2008' was also published by Packt Publishers Inc, Birmingham. Most recently his book, "Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development" (Dec 2010) was published by Packt Publishing Inc. He writes articles on several topics to many sites.

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