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Any financial management/project management software suitable for a ten person firm that you've had success with?  Ajera by Axium, ArchiOffice with Quickbooks, InFocus by Clearview, other programs?

We are on Deltek Vision after we were forced to upgrade from their Advantage product we used for many years - we felt there'd be an advantage in terms of porting our financial data over easily and in training staff.  After only six months with the program, and after spending tens of thousands of dollars on software, set-up on the cloud, transferring of historic data, and training staff, I am looking for appropriate alternatives.  Besides being extremely expensive for a small firm, it is a rather cumbersome and non-intuitive program.  We utilize a cloud based service in order to avoid purchasing a separate server for it.  Tasks that were one step in Advantage are now 3 steps.  The timesheet is poorly designed graphically and functionally.  Then the straw that broke the camel's back is when we needed to accommodate an 11th person on payroll, we would need to spend an additional $4,300 and 18% service fee per year to purchase a 10 person module.  Basically it is a way too sophisticated, expensive, and poorly designed product for our usage.  Deltek's answer is for us to spend an additional $7k for further staff training (the same staff that used their prior product for years without a problem). 

What's your experience been with these programs?  We've gotten feedback that the newly redesigned ArchiOffice has the potential to become a very good product but is still very buggy and integration with Quickbooks can be difficult....  Ajera looks good so far based on discussions with a few firms.  Don't know anything about InFocus.

Any other programs you would recommend?

Any feedback from your experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Any financial management/project management software suitable for a ten person firm that you've had success with?  Ajera by Axium, ArchiOffice with Quickbooks, InFocus by Clearview, other programs?

We are on Deltek Vision after we were forced to upgrade from their Advantage product we used for many years - we felt there'd be an advantage in terms of porting our financial data over easily and in training staff.  After only six months with the program, and after spending tens of thousands of dollars on software, set-up on the cloud, transferring of historic data, and training staff, I am looking for appropriate alternatives.  Besides being extremely expensive for a small firm, it is a rather cumbersome and non-intuitive program.  We utilize a cloud based service in order to avoid purchasing a separate server for it.  Tasks that were one step in Advantage are now 3 steps.  The timesheet is poorly designed graphically and functionally.  Then the straw that broke the camel's back is when we needed to accommodate an 11th person on payroll, we would need to spend an additional $4,300 and 18% service fee per year to purchase a 10 person module.  Basically it is a way too sophisticated, expensive, and poorly designed product for our usage.  Deltek's answer is for us to spend an additional $7k for further staff training (the same staff that used their prior product for years without a problem). 

What's your experience been with these programs?  We've gotten feedback that the newly redesigned ArchiOffice has the potential to become a very good product but is still very buggy and integration with Quickbooks can be difficult....  Ajera looks good so far based on discussions with a few firms.  Don't know anything about InFocus.

Any other programs you would recommend?

Any feedback from your experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Any financial management/project management software suitable for a ten person firm that you've had success with?  Ajera by Axium, ArchiOffice with Quickbooks, InFocus by Clearview, other programs?

We are on Deltek Vision after we were forced to upgrade from their Advantage product we used for many years - we felt there'd be an advantage in terms of porting our financial data over easily and in training staff.  After only six months with the program, and after spending tens of thousands of dollars on software, set-up on the cloud, transferring of historic data, and training staff, I am looking for appropriate alternatives.  Besides being extremely expensive for a small firm, it is a rather cumbersome and non-intuitive program.  We utilize a cloud based service in order to avoid purchasing a separate server for it.  Tasks that were one step in Advantage are now 3 steps.  The timesheet is poorly designed graphically and functionally.  Then the straw that broke the camel's back is when we needed to accommodate an 11th person on payroll, we would need to spend an additional $4,300 and 18% service fee per year to purchase a 10 person module.  Basically it is a way too sophisticated, expensive, and poorly designed product for our usage.  Deltek's answer is for us to spend an additional $7k for further staff training (the same staff that used their prior product for years without a problem). 

What's your experience been with these programs?  We've gotten feedback that the newly redesigned ArchiOffice has the potential to become a very good product but is still very buggy and integration with Quickbooks can be difficult....  Ajera looks good so far based on discussions with a few firms.  Don't know anything about InFocus.

Any other programs you would recommend?

Any feedback from your experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.