"The IT budget is about to explode" - me

Lori,

Our company has looked to Sage 300, Net Suite, Sales Force and Microsoft Dynamics in the last 6 years.  The killer for us was cost per seat, as high as $150 per user per month. about 10 times our current expenditure for BW yearly maintenance. And the 1st year training was around same in price. 

Needless to say we are still banging away on BW. We since upgraded our WiFi, BusinessWorks Server and Firewall  and internet service level.

Vince

Yes, that is a big concern... We also have to file a consolidated tax return for these companies so the software needs to be able to do consolidations easily as well. I know the cost will increase, but it has to be worth it . One of our division managers really wants to go to QuickBooks for his company  because of other software easily importing into it where it will not import into Businessworks.  But, I'm not sure QuickBooks will handle everything we need.

Are you currently using the consolidation in BW?

Yes

What can you import into quickbooks that you cannot import into BW. There are 3rd party options  for most of this 

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