Rating the popular high-end, mid-market and small business accounting solutions

April 18, 2006 from ITBusiness.ca and written by Michael Burns - "For the last two years, CAmagazine has conducted a Canadian customer survey of accounting and ERP systems. The survey solicits responses on how customers rate their systems, developers and implementation partners. It also includes questions about return on investment and future plans.

There is often some confusion as to the differences between an accounting system and an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. I define an ERP system as one that automates business processes across most, if not all, departments within a company. With that definition, even a system like QuickBooks or Simply Accounting can be considered an ERP system for a small company...

There were 264 surveys completed on a wide spectrum of systems. To compare the systems, each was categorized as either high-end, mid-market or small business. The report only included details for those systems for which at least five customer surveys were completed. This was done to improve the statistical reliability of the results. The high-end products included JD Edwards, Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP. The mid-market was made up of ACCPAC Advantage, Great Plains, Navision, and SYSPRO. Finally, small business solutions were Adagio, MYOB, QuickBooks and Simply Accounting."