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Live Blog from the Intuit App Showcase (Part VI)

Profitably takes the stage to kick off the final wave of three demos.  Profitably positions themselves as a new generation of business modeling and forecasting tools.  They contrast all of the passion and energy of starting a business, describing it as a driving force of nature, with slogging through Excel as a business planning tool. Profitably keeps it simple with its intuitive drag-and-drop interface.  Their customers tell them it doesn't behave like a web app or like a spreadsheet, it feels like the future.  They're trying to take smart lessons from big enterprise solutions (read expensive) and make them accessible to small businesses. 

SOS Inventory is up next, offering inventory, manufacturing and order management fully integrated with QuickBooks Online.  If you're a product based and manufacturing companies, they built this app for you.  All of the forms are pre-filled, reducing the risk of error and saving time.  The inventory section looks robust, allowing you track inventory by a variety of attributes.  Invoices are generated with the click of a mouse.  SOS Inventory fills in functionality that QuickBook Online, as a mass market product, just doesn't offer. 

PinnacleCart is a complete shopping solution that allows merchants with no technical experience to sell online.  PinnacleCart enables small businesses to automate to scale their ecommerce rather than default to expanding staff and increasing expenses.  The app offers over 600 features, including some interesting SEO tools.  PinnacleCart comes with Facebook and mobile storefronts, enabled with social hooks to enable "Likes" and tweets.  Amazingly, in the time it took for the pitch, one of the team created a storefront.

This has been an amazing line-up today.  Now, it's time for judging!  We'll be back in a little while with the winners.

Live Blog from the Intuit App Showcase (Part V)

We're still at it, folks!

BotBill takes the stage.  This app is focused on automatic invoicing, electronic payments, and late payment follow up.  In about 30 seconds, they demonstrated how you can receive and pay for an invoice, send invoice, charge credit card, send receipt, send email confirmation, and write the transaction automatically to QuickBooks.  BotBill can also send reminder emails at set frequencies for customers that don't pay--beware.  The VCs are asking about distribution and BotBill is talking about the value of working through ProAdvisors to drive distribution.  We love their logo, by the way!

Concur has been an expense management system for over a decade and today they're sharing a new app, Breeze, with us.  With QuickBooks data synced, the team works through a set-up of Breeze, which takes only about a minute. Breeze is fully integrated with Trip*It so pulling travel data in is fast and easy.  You can add receipts a variety of ways and attach them with drag and drop ease.  Their mobile functionality is complete . . . create, attach receipts, approve.  Concur is AmEx's exclusive expense management solution; not bad for credibility.

PropelWare's CTO is now on stage to pitch OneWay Commerce.  This app enables you to easily set up a storefront on your Facebook page.  All it takes is a store name and a PayPal account.  This may seem simple but don't be fooled.  OneWay Commerce offers time-based promotions and works with 22 currencies.  OneWay Commerce fully integrates into Facebook; the shop tab appears on the Facebook Page.  There's a "Like" button right below product, enabling social sharing to Facebook friends.  All this happens within Facebook, so there no disruptive experience.  It's social, simple and fully integrated.  The VCs love that this the first ecommerce solution we've seen today.  We're big fans of the social component too!

BodeTree's co-founder tells us 50% of small businesses fail in the first five years and their mission is to help small businesses beat the odds.  This app features an interactive dashboard to monitor value drivers, real time but goes beyond dashboards to help a business owner articulate strategy, understand key value drivers and make better decisions. Because of the QuickBooks integration, there's no manual data entry, saving time or money.  The are more "no's" but in all good ways: no software, no contracts, no hassles.  Interestingly, education is a big part of this app, giving you exactly the information you need, exactly when you need it.    Another interesting feature of the app is the ability to generate professional business snapshot instantly.  Up next is an optimization tool to help you understand potential changes to your business and steps you can take to maximize value.  The path to business enlightenment is looking good!

bMobileNow takes the stage with a mobile invoicing app for the Android phones and tablets.  Goodbye paper!  With bMobileNow, a user can look at customers, issue invoices, and review contracts. The invoice section will also allow the guy in the field to see inventory on hand and selling price.  Invoices can be emailed and there's also a companion device that allows for printing on the spot.  There's an iOS version on the way.  At the end of the day, bMobile wants it to be the end of the day with its simple, elegant solution. 

It's not the end of our day, though.  One more wave of presenters to come.

Live Blog from the Intuit App Showcase (Part IV)

Bill.com leads off the next wave of presentations.  Bill.com saves their customer 75% of the time it takes to pay their bills and they get paid two to three times faster.  Who wouldn't want that?  This app is a comprehensive portal that helps business managers manage their receivables and payments.  Businesses and customers can short-circuit the slow process of snail mail and telephone tag as they ask and answer questions about invoices, attaching documents, tracking conversations and resolving issues in the portal.   Couple that with an automated bill paying process and Bill.com enables faster work flow, clearer roles and better controls. 

Thrive CRM takes the stage wearing t-shirts that say "Now what?"  That's the question they say small businesses ask over and over when it comes to their marketing, advertising and sales.  Thrive wants to take the guesswork out of those areas . . . well . . . to help your business thrive.  Thrive includes an advertising manager that evaluates whether a promotion is worthwhile.  It tells you how many customers you'd need to attract in and what your conversion rate needs to be.  Using QuickBooks data, it looks at past performance to help you understand whether what you need to do is realistic or not.  The app also gets smarter as it gets to understand your business and includes a recommendation feature to help you understand what actions you should take to improve your success.  These folks understand that small businesses start from a place of passion and created this app so that passion can be rewarded. 

MethodCRM gets started wearing chef's jackets and toques and introduces their app with an Iron Geek (think Iron Chef analogue) demo.  As one team member narrates Fukui-san style, the other partner is demoing creating a custom process of the experience from customer request through invoice.  Will they finish in time?  We'll see. MethodCRM's differentiation is providing a complete customizable platform that lets non-coders create custom processes with drag and drop interfaces.  And yes indeed, the competition is ovah!  MethodCRM was talking fast and fingers were flying but within the limit of the five minute pitch, they successfully build a custom process directly inside the CRM.  

BillFlo ask the profound question "Do we have money to do what we need to do?"  It's not easy thing to answer for a small business and most use a manual (read painful) process.  BillFlo gathers up all the data and presents it in a forward-looking, actionable view. The app pulls cash balances from QuickBooks and PayPal, pulls invoice data and the payment history of that customer.  They predict payment dates to create a realistic view of when cash will flow in and enable the buyer chooses on a sliding scale when they want to paid. The visual display is simple and clear and moving that line on the screen to avoid a financial crisis has got to feel good.

Mabbled also starts with an important question 'Will I get paid?"  Mabbled wants to make it so.  This app crowd-sources data via the QuickBooks user community to rate businesses on how promptly they pays their bills; this allows one small business to leverage a user community of millions.  Businesses share their QuickBooks data with Mabbled and the data are aggregated to build company profiles.  If you share your data, then you can search company's profile for free.  Although the data are sensitive, you can always purge data you've shared from the system if at any point you have concerns. This is an interesting way to use crowd-sourcing to reduce a company's risk.

And now a short break while a guy plays a raucous electric guitar.

 

 

 

Live Blog from the Intuit App Showcase (Part III)

"3 - 2 - 1 Showcase that App!"  That's our mantra for today and the way we introduce each app team.  Here comes the next wave!

Full Slate is getting us started this afternoon and introducing us to their appoinment app.  Full Slate allows clients of small business to go online and make appointment at an available time.  The client enters basic data which is written to QuickBooks.  The business is notified via text message that they have a new appointment. It's fast and easy for the customer and saves time for the business and delivers an improvement in efficiency with less time scheduling and a reduction in no-shows by up to 35%.  As one of their customers said "freakin' fast and easy to use."

Periscope is challenging us with why 80% of American small businesses either fail or are on their way there. What do the 20% who thrive do right? Proactively manage cash flow and monitor key performance indicators.  Periscope takes a company's QuickBooks transactions and turns them into actionable financial intelligence.  Using a simple drag and drop process, Periscope maps out when you will get paid and when you need to pay your own bills.  Print out a cash action plan and you have a roadmap to keep cash flowing.  Periscope promises their product will help small business leader avoid "financial avoidance syndrome."  Intuit loves acronyms and we may just have a new one: (FSA).  Thanks, Periscope!

AuditMyBooks says they're the anti-virus for QuickBooks and is quoting some significant numbers about the magnitude of fraud inside a corporation: $3.7MM million dollars lost due to fraud every five minutes (the length of their pitch!).   AuditMyBooks wants to help by analyzing and flagging inconsistencies in the QuickBooks system so business owners can take action.  AuditMyBooks can catch fraudulent behavior but also more basic errors like writing a check twice.  Either way, this app promises to save you money.

eBillity takes the stage with the motto "Every Second Counts." These guys founded Dice, the largest job board for technical professionals.  Now they're back with a mission to help professional work more productively.  eBillity is a SaaS platform and a mobile tool to track, manage, and bill their time from anywhere.  The app is seamlessly integrated with QuickBooks Online.  Its quick and easy . . . just what you'd expect from a team that believes time is money.

eMobilityPOS helps small business get rid of old technology in the field by getting rid of paper.  Because it's integrated with QuickBooks, you can access customer accounts, create orders, email receipts and do invoicing.  You can also add data that isn't originally captured in QuickBooks.  Slip your phone into their device, called the Enabler, and you can take credit card and check payments on the spot.  The VCs are asking for differentiation versus Square and the eMobilityPOS team answers confidently about the advantages of being an open system versus Square's closed one.  This is a hot category.

DrivenCRM wants to automate your entire business.  Their app has functionality for sales, support, and time tracking needs.  Bulk email modules, ecommerce, and modules are also part of the package.  QuickBooks integration is key as the data starts and ends there. As one of our VCs asks "Is that all you do?"  DrivenCRM is trying to solve a real need for businesses that have to put a lot different pieces of together with a single solution.

Live Blog from the Intuit App Showcase (Part II)

And we're back . . .

FrequencySupport is on stage, promising easy online help desk solution for small business.  Since the app is integrated with QuickBooks, you can see a customer's purchase history with company.  It's as easy to use as email with its one-screen design.  You can just sit down and get started.  FrequencySupport is also priced for small businesses at $49 per month versus other enterprise solutions that might cost upwards of $300.  We like that since the app isn't priced per individual user, a small business can get everyone involved in support and stay close to the customer.  Look for a knowledge base to come.

PostcardServices is up.  These guys make direct mail and campaign analysis easy.  Step One: import your address list from QuickBooks.  Step Two:  Use the design dashboard to upload images and logo.  Step Three:  Magic happens!  A number of completed postcard designs appear.  Pick one, check out and be done. The postcards are automatically printed and mailed.  Not enough for you?  Postcard Services also has analytics capabilities, demonstrating campaign ROI and allowing a user explore what-if scenarios to see how to grow ROI even more.  Nice, high energy presentation too!

ExpenseWatch.com has taken the stage.  The promise from these fellows is getting visibility and control of spending.  It's a drag and drop approach to creating expense reports, with email notification for expense approval, record and payment capability through QuickBooks.  Purchase reqs and payable invoices also flow into this system so a business can get a total view and control of spending.  Our VC panel likes the compliance angle here.  We like that there's a mobile app as well. 

Office Ant is getting started, showing a pretty cute ant as their app logo.  Office Ant allows a business to set up a customer portal, enabling acustomer to securely sign up for an account on a business's website and get support.  The customer can see an overview of all their transactions with the company and drill down for details.  If a customer has a question about an invoice, they can file a support request right there.  Office Ant allows customers to pay bills in the account space as well.  The support side offers FAQs, a community forum for additional support.  The business gets a dashboard to manage all of this as well as visibility to manage the richness and insight that comes from customer conversation.

Corelytics is on stage, starting off by sharing a audio customer testamonial.  It's impressive to hear a CEO talk about avoiding a train wreck in her business with this app.  They've taken a simple stoplight (green, yellow, red) approach to financial dashboard measures so it's quite clear where a business leader needs to focus.  Corelytics has industry benchmarks displayed for each measure too.  The app provides a forecast range for each of the measures.  Once a business leader sets a goal, Corelytics gives them tools to answer how they're doing and manage their business better.  This app is simple at the dashboard level but really has analytic depth.  At $69 per month per company, as one of our VCs said "it's a deal!"

While we take a lunch break, check out these apps and more at appcenter.intuit.com

Live Blog from the Intuit App Showcase

We're in San Francisco today for the Intuit App Showcase and we'll be live blogging all day.  There are 30 talented developers here to pitch their apps that solve small business challenges to group of VCs.  At the end of the day, we'll award $100,000 in prize money to three winners.

Bang the gong (literally--there's a guy in a fur vest and leg warmers and a Viking hat banging a gong) the game is on!

Agile Ship has taken the stage to start the day.  They've built an impressing shipping app that saves time and money for small businesses who use QuickBooks;  the logic in the app eliminates errors and enables a business person to quickly and accurately manage end to end process of shipping. They guarantee you'll be able to ship with 10% less cost than you get on your own.  We like their bright purple t-shirts sporting the line  "Make Ship Happen."

HireFlo makes small businesses better at hiring by using the app.  If you're asking "where do I place my job notice?  How do I handle resumes?"  HireFlo might be for you.  HireFlo first publishes your job notice to Simply Hired and other free sites with a single click.  It also recommends a series of actions you might take including sharing on Linked In, Twitter and Facebook to spread the word.  The app also enables you to view a history of any interaction the candidate has had with your company.  With a few pieces of JavaScript pasted into your website, applicants can see all job openings that you have.  The next feature up is helping employers write better job specs.  Pretty cool.

Now Costavior is on stage.  Costsavior enables any company maximize profit.  This app has a nice, clear integration with QuickBooks and provides a wealth of financial information based on a company's data.  It also educates business owners on key measures are and why they are important.  This app is for business decision makers who want to play with scenarios and really understand how to improve their bottom line.

AtDuty is a field service app.  The head office can send work orders to field reps' phones with full job information.  The field service rep can quickly review the day's jobs and input start and finish times.  An electronic signature closes the job.  Writing the information back to QuickBooks closes the loop.  Sweet!

TransactionPro Importer allows you to import information like invoices and journal entries from Excel or .csv file into QuickBooks Online.  They've already had 10,000 customers using an SDK variant of the app.  You can easily map fields from an existing list or create your own fields to your import files.  This should save time and improve accuracy for business owners!

ProOnGo on stage now.  1036 expense apps in the world and we need another?  Yes!  They cover four phone families, there's an always-in-sync workflow, and full QuickBooks compatibility.  Everything you create flows to your manager's mobile device for immediate approval (or rejection).  Use your device's phone and snap an image of the receipt and that gets sent along.  The expense is quick to file and approval takes literally just a second.  All of the line item data is captured in QuickBooks.  Impressive!

Now a man in a towel has taken the stage and is covering himself with shaving cream while Vivaldi plays. He's sculpting shaving cream on his face and hair to create characachures . . . an old man, a satyr.  It's a little weird to watch this but it's fun.  A wipe of his hand and a new face emerges.  This guy is like a mime whose medium is shaving cream.  The audience seems to be enjoying it.  Now he's writing the Intuit brand across his chest to great applause.

 

Partnerships, IPP + Windows Azure

When we started the Intuit Partner Platform, we had a pretty simple vision: To delight Small Businesses with an ecosystem of applications that solve lots of needs and work extremely well together. We set out to build a platform that would enable us to work with our partners to build more and better offerings for the small business community. 

Although the vision hasn't changed, the path along our journey has certainly evolved. Three years ago, platforms-as-a-service were nascent. To help accelerate our partners getting to market, we created and offered an end-to-end platform. This helped a number of our partners get to market, but it wasn't a perfect offering. It was a stack that solved the needs of a small set developers, but couldn't scale in features to meet the needs of all our developers.

While we've continued to invest in our native platform, other platforms have moved at lightning speed. Many of these platforms focus on what I'll call the "lower" end of the stack. This is the stuff a developer needs to build and deploy a saas or mobile app (hardware, database, etc.). These platforms have evolved way past anything we could create and honestly provide a better development experience than we could.

In parallel however, we've focused on our core assets and differentiators, and evolved the "upper" end of the stack. This includes access to QuickBooks data and key "go-to-market" services that make app integrations possible and delight small businesses. As you can see with our Beta release of Intuit Anywhere, we're continuing to push the envelope on providing ubiquitous data integrations and tightly integrated apps to our customers. That's what we're good at, and it's where we will focus now and in the future.

That brings me to a couple of announcements we shared at IPP CloudJam: First, we will no longer offer our "native development" stack for developers to build on. We are going to focus our resources on the top of the stack and make data and services for our developers the top priority.

So what should our developers who are looking for a PaaS offering do?

While we have always been and will always be an open platform, and we will always embrace applications built on any platform, we think it's important to help guide our developers who are looking for a PaaS option to what we believe is the best option on the market. So I'm pleased to announce that we will continue the journey we started with Microsoft last year and double down on our investment to tightly integrate the Windows Azure platform with IPP. The feedback from current developers using Azure and live on Intuit App Center has been extremely positive and we believe with additional investment in our Windows Azure SDK for IPP, we can make developing an app on Azure, leveraging Quickbooks data and IPP's go-to-market services, and getting into the Intuit App Center Channel, DROP DEAD EASY.

We've been extremely impressed with the dedication and quality of Microsoft's platform, their willingness to work closely with our existing partners, and their dedication to making developers successful. Microsoft has built a huge business behind their partner community – they just "get" how important partners are and how to treat them – and with our "native" IPP development option now gone, we think this is the best platform for our developers.

Read up Liz Ngo, Microsoft's business development manager on why we're doubling down on this partnership. 

Here is some more information on how developers can take advantage of our partnership, sign up for Front Runner for IPP. 

Look for new releases of Window Azure SDK for IPP in the coming months and if you have requests, feedback, or interest in learning more about Azure, please let us know!

Alex Chriss
Director, Intuit Partner Platfomr

Intuit Anywhere Beta - come and get it!

Today, we're very excited to share with you that Intuit Anywhere is now in Beta, meaning you can get a hold of the bits and access the services to start integrating them into your SaaS apps.

 We’re obviously very excited with Intuit Anywhere and to now be at a place where we can share Beta with you - we truly believe that Intuit Anywhere will create brand new opportunities for our partners and awesome new experiences for our customers.

This morning, we walked through an example use case, involving MethodCRM, Mavenlink, Freshbooks and Bill.com. We showed how Intuit Anywhere was acting as the glue across these apps, letting the data flow from one app to the other, flowing into and out of QuickBooks: there was customer data being written and estimates being created in the CRM app, finding their way into QuickBooks Online, then the that same information being read in by another 3rd app - Mavenlink in this case - to create work items and deliverables, which can then later be used by other apps to invoice customer (such as Freshbooks) and bill and pay vendors (via Bill.com).

The walkthrough showed how all this allowed the customer to save time and money by avoiding double data entry, using multiple apps that work together - and doing so at the developer's sites, not through Intuit App Center - that's a really important point about Intuit Anywhere: we want to make IPP's data services available to apps without those apps having to be fully Federated into IPP...

The bluedot widget

We showed how the "bluedot widget" allows navigation across the Intuit Anywhere connected apps, and how it enabled a Single-Sign-On experience across the Intuit Anywhere apps.

We also showed how Intuit App Center acts as the destination where the customer is able to control which apps they've granted permissions to connect to their dats, and how they can control that access, revoking access as necessary.

All awesome time-saving features that developers can integrate into their apps and in turn offer to their own customers quickly and easily.

We demonstrated how Intuit Anywhere was acting as the glue across these different apps.

Then the Bill.com team showed a live demo of Intuit Anywhere that they have rolled out to a some of their customers as part of the early-adoption program. They also shared the customer feedback - all very positive feedback, really validating the value we're delivering to to developers and customers. It was awesome!

That was the customer facing story.

We then had the product team demonstrate how quickly and easily IPP developers can integrate Intuit Anywhere into their apps and get the data flowing between their apps and IPP data services APIs. All real bits, real services - they got an app integrated in minutes, real-time in front of the developer audience.

And you can get going yourself right now!

Before you head off and review the docs, here are a couple of very important pieces of info we shared this morning at IPP CloudJam since our initial announcement a few weeks back:

Intuit Anywhere - Pricing:

For each Intuit Anywhere connection, Intuit charges the developer $5 per company connected per month. There is no limit on the number of users – so an app that is connected to a company file can be used by multiple users.

Also, we’re not putting limits on how and if the developer want to charge customers for leveraging the Intuit Anywhere feature. Developers can choose to include the cost as part of their standard pricing, or pass the cost on to the customer as a monthly feature, or  add their own margin, so for example, charge the customer $10 per month, retain $5 and pass $5 to Intuit.

We want to keep this pricing as simple as possible and give developers the choice around the economic opportunities here.

Intuit Anywhere - Timing:

Today you'll be able to access a pre-release version of the bits and services you need to integrate the Intuit Anywhere experience and data into your app.

We plan to make the first set of Intuit Anywhere integrations available to end-customers in late September, with a phased roll-out of other Intuit Anywhere connected apps on a “First Ready / First to Go Live” basis.

Intuit Anywhere - Types of Apps Supported

Eventually (as the name suggests!), we want to make Intuit Anywhere available for all types of apps and services, and across every device.

To start with, we’re focused on enabling web-based SaaS apps that are sold to multiple customers – if you have a mobile extension for your SaaS app – that works too.

Over time, we’ll add support for custom apps and integration: examples are one-off integrations between QuickBooks and ERP systems, or other “behind the firewall” integrations. Stand-alone mobile and iPad apps and "desktop" applications won't be supported in the first instance, but we plan to. We don’t have a timescale to share for these, but if you are planning to use Intuit Anywhere for custom, mobile-only or desktop apps, we definitely want to hear from you and will update you once we have a roadmap to share.

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So, you can get going and start your integrations today. The team has worked very hard to make sure that the developer experience is quick and as simple as possible – the reality is that the grunt of the work developers will need to do will take place around the integration of the data into their app. If you've already begun this data integration - then that's great: Intuit Anywhere is using the exact same data service APIs that are live today on IPP, just using OAuth, so any work on the data integration will be totally ready to go when we go live with Intuit Anywhere.

As you can imagine, the developer experience is a top priority for us - we want to make it as quick and simple as it can possibly be.

And we want the customer experience to be awesome too - we want customers to trust the that the Intuit Anywhere experience will be secure and "just work", so each integration needs to meet technical requirements and pass a security assessment prior to going live.

Lastly, the point of the Beta is to learn and get your feedback, so we very much look forward to hearing from you as you start your Intuit Anywhere integrations.

So...if you like the sound of Intuit Anywhere, come and play with the Beta!

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Alex Barnett
Group Manager, Developer Relations

Join us for the August IPP CloudJam!

You’re invited to join us for a two-day IPP CloudJam in Mountain View, CA, August 9-10, 2011. Attendees will have the opportunity to collaborate with Intuit to build their SaaS business on the Intuit Partner Platform. We can help you get your application to market quickly and start selling it to the millions of QuickBooks small business customers via the Intuit Workplace App Center.

This event is focused for ISV: Developers / Architects, VP / Manager of Business Development, VP / Manager of Marketing. 

You’ll meet the Intuit Partner Platform team and learn more about:

• Intuit Anywhere
• IPP Marketing Opportunities
• Traditional IPP application development 
  • Build natively on the Intuit Partner Platform
  • Federate your existing SaaS application
• Intuit's Open Source Community: Code.Intuit.com

IPP CloudJams are a great way to get your application to market quickly!  Applications and open source projects that started at our previous CloudJams have already been published on the Intuit App Center.

Tickets are free, but limited. Register today to secure your place. We’ll award the tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.   

Please visit the website or registration page for more information. 

Date: Tuesday, August 9th - Wednesday, August 10th
Location: Intuit Headquarters, Mountain View, CA 

Tickets are FREE—but limited. Register now!

Get more information and event details here.

See you there,
—The Intuit Partner Platform Team

 

Announcing Intuit Anywhere

Small Businesses drive the nation's economy. And QuickBooks drives the back office functions for 4 million of those small businesses. Understanding who are your best customers, your cashflow, your inventory, and your accounts receivables, are critical information for any Small Business. But QuickBooks only solves some of the functions of a small business – not everything they need to successful.

For the past 2.5 years, we've been building the Intuit Partner Platform to securely and efficiently bring this data to our developers, so they can deliver best of breed applications to the SMB community. We're building the platform that connects the best apps for small business with the most important small business data.

Since our launch, we've developed a full PaaS offering for new app development and pioneered business app Federation - allowing apps built on any Platform to integrate with IPP. In doing so, we've connected together over 100 SMB applications and helped over 1,000,000 Small Business users find IPP connected apps through our Intuit App Center.

Today, we're excited to announce IPP is taking the next step in our journey, with Intuit Anywhere. With Intuit Anywhere, any SaaS or Mobile application can securely connect to IPP and QuickBooks data. For a Small Business, this means with one-click, they can "Connect to QuickBooks" from an Intuit Anywhere enabled app, sign-in with their Intuit Account, and instantly have QuickBooks data available to them.

We're pleased to announce six new partners that will be joining IPP leveraging the Intuit Anywhere technology.

• Bill.com
• Concur
• eBay
• FreshBooks
• Mavenlink
• MethodCRM.com

With these partners joining the 100 apps currently on IPP (and Salesforce.com coming later this summer), Small Businesses now have the premier destination with Intuit App Center to discover applications that work together, and with their QuickBooks data, to solve their needs.

It's fast and easy for developers to get started, power their business applications with QuickBooks data and delight their customers. We've also focused on the customer experience, providing single-sign-on throughout the ecosystem and a consistent widget for simple navigation and permissions management.

Small businesses can now leverage their most critical business data with the apps they use everyday – any app, any device, anywhere!

If you'd like more information or would like to join the Intuit Anywhere beta, please sign up here.

In the meantime, please checkout below some quotes from our partners regarding Intuit Anywhere, and find out more about our next IPP CloudJam.

Alex Chriss
Director, Intuit Partner Platform
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Intuit Anywhere Partner Quotes

“Intuit Anywhere gives Bill.com and other developers the tools to create amazing, secure user experiences while ensuring customer data is continuously synchronized with QuickBooks Online. Intuit Anywhere strengthens Bill.com’s ability to help SMBs stay on top of their payables and receivables processes, giving SMB’s access to their documents, payments and approvals in the cloud.” 
Rene Lacerte, CEO, Bill.com.

“Concur Breeze eliminates the pain of expense reporting, offering millions of small businesses one seamless expense reporting and administration experience – anywhere on the web or from their mobile device. With Intuit Anywhere integration, Concur Breeze expense data now flows seamlessly into QuickBooks, making it easy for employees on the road and an ideal solution for SMB managers and the finance and accounting professionals who advise them.” 
Elena Donio, executive vice president and & GM, Concur.

“Intuit Anywhere has made it easy for FreshBooks to integrate our online invoicing system with QuickBooks. It's the right move for Intuit, for FreshBooks, and most importantly for our customers whojust want to focus on their work, not their paperwork.” 
Mike McDerment, president, CEO and co-founder, FreshBooks.

“Integrating QuickBooks Online with Mavenlink is one of the most requested features from our user base and Intuit Anywhere has delivered. By working with Intuit, thousands of our SMB customers who work online with their clients will be able to spend more time collaborating, reduce administration and have an accurate reflection of their business financials." 
Ray Grainger, founder and CEO, Mavenlink.

“The ease of building and marketing apps using Intuit Anywhere means we’re going to see more developers integrating with QuickBooks. So, not only are QuickBooks users going to benefit from the convenience of single sign-on for their favorite apps, they’ll also have more apps to choose from.” 
Paul Jackson, president and founder, MethodCRM.com. 

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Learn more

• If you'd like more information or would like to join the Intuit Anywhere beta, please sign up here.

• Official Intuit Press Release: Intuit Unveils Next Generation of the Intuit Partner Platform

• Intuit will be hosting an IPP CloudJam at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters on Aug. 9- 10. Developers will be able to learn more about Intuit Anywhere and spend time coding alongside the Intuit Partner Platform team. The event will include breakout sessions on Intuit Data Services with QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, the mobile SDK, open source resources and marketing. More information and registration for the free event can be found here.

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Updates:

• ZDNet's Larry Dignan on Intuit Anywhere: "Think Facebook Connect for QuickBooks data."

• [video] Robert Scoble interviewing Alex Barnett, Group Manager, Developer Relations for Intuit, talking about Intuit Anywhere and showing a quick demo.

• Phil Wainewright: Standardizing the business data model

• Ben Kepes: Intuit Rolls Out Anywhere–QuickBooks Integration, Anywhere