Free-trial offerings can be an ideal incentive for experimenting with new technology. Quattro Innovation Group found the right accounting solution this way. While you might imagine that most businesses would have some trepidation about experimenting with new technologies, it can be a great way to stumble across that perfect solution you were looking for without an upfront commitment.
Quattro, however, was perhaps better placed than most companies to make the leap. As a specialist in IT and “cloud” services, it turned towards a web-based solution for an accounting system that could tie in with its customer relationship management (CRM) system.
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“Gone are the days where you had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to integrate systems,” Harper says