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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SpeedTax and Wipfli LLP Ink Microsoft Dynamics GP Integration Deal
Dynamics GP customers and accountants who serve them will benefit from SaaS sales tax automation and mangement solution loaded with next-generation features.
Laguna Hills, Calif. – September 30, 2008: SpeedTax, Inc., a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), fully-automated sales tax management solutions today announced an integration deal whereby Spider Logic, the technology integration division of Wipfli LLP, will integrate SpeedTax MANAGER™ with Microsoft Dynamics™ GP.
Work will commence on the integration immediately, with delivery of the integrated solution slated for November, 2008.
The completed integration of SpeedTax MANAGER with Dynamics GP will give customers access to the SpeedTax Service Engine™, a centralized rules-based service that is always up-to-date with geographic data, state rules, and unique business variables, allowing for a customer’s specific changes to taxability rules to be made nearly instantaneously – a major differentiator that sets SpeedTax apart from competitive products. Dynamics GP customers using SpeedTax will be able to immediately offload a significant sales tax management and compliance burden, from calculation and reporting to filing and remittance of sales taxes. Accountants serving Dynamics GP clients will have unprecedented external, web-enabled sales tax management capability.
”Dynamics GP customers can now look forward to an easy, efficient, highly-reliable and cost-effective solution to their sales tax management burden, and by the same token one that is designed by accountants, for accountants to their highest professional standards,” said Anton Donde, SpeedTax CEO. “SpeedTax chose Wipfli based on their reputation as a premier Microsoft Dynamics product integrator, in addition to being a highly-respected CPA firm and Dynamics GP business partner, giving them a clear view of specific client needs. We look forward to soon announcing a customer-ready integration of SpeedTax with Dynamics GP.”
“From both a product integrator and Microsoft Dynamics GP business partner perspective, we’re very pleased to be involved with delivering SpeedTax to the thousands of Great Plains users in need of a strong automated sales tax management solution,” said Jeff Greeneway, Managing Partner at Wipfli LLP’s Consulting Practice. “Several key factors – not the least of which includes economic conditions at state and local levels nationwide leading to heightened audit activity, in addition to the immediate need in the mid-market for a SaaS sales tax management solution – make today’s integration announcement very good news for Dynamics GP customers.”
“This is an auspicious and timely integration for SpeedTax,” said L. Gary Boomer, CEO of Boomer Consulting, and 2008 inductee into Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting. “Dynamics GP is the most recognizable business management solution in the mid-market, with an impressively large customer base currently looking for smart SaaS applications to help run and grow their businesses. The choice of Wipfli to complete the integration dovetails logically with SpeedTax’s philosophy of working closely with CPAs to deliver mission-critical solutions to their clients.”
About SpeedTax On-Demand Services
SpeedTax MANAGER™ is a comprehensive sales tax automation and management service built by accountants, for accountants. A Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, it performs real-time, automated sales tax calculations, integrates seamlessly with its customers’ financial or e-commerce systems, and provides automatic returns preparation and filing, while enabling reporting, treasury management and audit defense with sophisticated, web-based compliance management and reporting tools.
SpeedTax MANAGER provides:
- Automatically prepared, signature-ready tax forms. The approval process is streamlined with built-in controls to save time and eliminate human error. Submitting documentation and remittance to the proper taxing authorities is handled automatically, and tools are built in to ensure tax-filing deadlines are anticipated, allowing for consistent, predictable preparation, on time and with a minimum of effort.
- Executive dashboard reports, highly functional management reports, detail reports down to the transaction level, tracking tools and comprehensive audit trail.
- Management of taxability, nexus, sourcing rules, exemptions, exceptions, shipping locations, SST volunteer status and other settings to meet the unique needs of each business.
- A link with each customer’s financial or e-commerce application to deliver correct sales tax calculations directly into their invoicing or customer set-up processes, allowing businesses to avoid rate look-ups and any potential manual error.
- Unmatched accuracy in jurisdiction and rate determinations, powered by SpeedTax Service Engine™ – SpeedTax’s high-performance, rules-based engine that is always up-to-date with geographic data, state rules, and all applicable variables unique to a customer’s business.
SpeedTax MANAGER™: Plus, Core, and Pro
SpeedTax MANAGER comes in three editions: Plus, the comprehensive calculation, reporting and returns service; Core, a pared-down option that automates calculations within the financial or e-commerce application but does not include returns, and SpeedTax MANAGER Pro, the expert-level automation and management service for professionals in the financial and accounting sectors servicing multiple clients. SpeedTax MANAGER Pro users get all the benefits of SpeedTax MANAGER Core and SpeedTax MANAGER Plus users—with additional multi-client tools and custom reporting tools to help manage sales tax for a portfolio of multiple clients.
About SpeedTax
Headquartered in Laguna Hills, California, SpeedTax was founded on the premise that businesses of all sizes should be able to confidently, accurately and affordably outsource the most tedious, repetitious and time-consuming aspects of sales tax compliance – researching, calculating, posting, reporting and remitting sales taxes – while simultaneously acquiring the ability to better manage their business via online, real-time access to sales tax data. SpeedTax understands that customers want to feel fully confident in the event of an audit, but also believes that customers deserve much more from a complete sales tax management solution.
For more information on SpeedTax on-demand services, visit www.speedtax.com, call us at 888.349.2441, or contact us via email at pr@speedtax.com.
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