Both of these companies are primarily hub and spoke type software models, aka "Platforms" vs "All-in-one" solutions such as BizAutomation.com. In the case of QuickBooks, you're mostly talking about a non-cloud solution although they're slowing migrating to the cloud too, but if you want to compare apples to apples, that is.. a model where outside software companies (spoke) integrate into a platform (hub), vs. an all-in-one approach, you'll find that:

1. The "Total" solution made up of separate providers is always more expensive - Look no further than your local cable company, which now bundle phone, tv, and internet for much less than what it will cost you to buy these services from three separate companies.
2. Consistency of design - After all these are multiple systems hobbled together from various software companies, each with their own approach to software User Interface (UI) design. This results in increased training and greater user attrition. If one system uses tree views for navigation, another uses horizontal tabs, and yet another uses vertical sections, naturally this decreases ease of use.
3. Inferior Integration - Any software engineer worth his salt will tell you that there's nothing like database level integration vs the web services API connectors used by hub and spoke platforms. Not in terms of performance, simplicity, performance, or completeness of integration. A simple example would be to look at the integration of any 3rd party web store with QuickBooks. Now you have two separate inventory systems to synchronize and integrate. This is a non-issue when you have both built into a single system that shares the same inventory, and this is but one of hundreds of examples one can cite.
4. Network reliability (applies only to cloud software) - Logic tells us that if the typical SLA uptime is 99.99% and you multiply network vulnerability by the number of cloud network solutions being integrated from the outside, the chances of an outage is multiplied by the number of networks involved.

Some providers are only interested in making it easy to get your data in but make it difficult to get it out. Rest assured with BizAutomation.com, YOU own your data, and you'll be able to download it daily, at no additional cost.

We pledge not to increase your subscriber rates unless justified by the commodity price index, so your real price never goes up. Our product pricing page as well as our subscription agreements clearly list the features you're paying for. .

If you're a small to mid sized company you'll find our suite worth looking at. Some vertical business types that will find us worth a look include:

- Wholesale & Distribution with one or more warehouses
- Services companies (Including those that require employee workorder scheduling)
- Businesses that rent products
- Retailers with need for Matrix items and POS
- Businesses that sell big ticket items requiring serialization and lot#s
- Light manufacturing companies with a work order BOM process

We've been building BizAutomation for over 10 years now. Businesses have lots of moving parts and it takes a long time to perfect the best practices that make up an all-in-one business management product when starting from scratch (not to mention the millions of lines of code that go into a project like this). We like to compare ourselves to NetSuite because we feel they represent the closest thing to a competitor we have.

Your business is like an engine. It has moving parts(departments) which need to function together. Where an engine's parts work together to generate power as efficiently as possible, your business engine needs to generate revenue as efficiently as possible. If you're using a point-package for department A and another for department B, it's fair to say your business engine isn't as efficient as it should be. As long as your competitor is in the same boat, then your success is only going to be defined by other competitive advantages. Our value propesition is to make your business engine as efficient as it can possibly be, leaving you to use your other competitive advantages to pull ahead of the competition, rather than mearly allowing you to catch up with them.

It's true that some systems can collapse under the pressure of big data. Add 50,000 transactions to a typical system, then try to open G/L, A/R, or open orders and you'll find that in some cases you're waiting minutes for the page to load. We've optimized high stress areas to handle lots of data. So whether your business is processing a few orders per day or a few thousand, you'll find us up to the task.

2012 uptime was approximately 99.99% (U.S. / Canada business hours). BizAutomation.com servers employ Supermicro Rack Servers with the latest LSI based RAID disk redundancy. We perform daily data back-ups and employ the same encryption technology used by online banks (SSL) to protect against hacking during a user session. Aside from this, we make it easy for you to download your data (a free service) on a daily basis if needed (see FAQ#1).

If a software company asks you to run your entire business on its SaaS solution, you have the right to ask about business longevity, and plan contingencies should the unlikely adverse event take place. We often get asked, what happens if you closed shop tomorrow or get acquired - how do I keep running my business ? Firstly, you should know that you can get your data out ANY time (daily if you wish) so porting that over to another solution is going to be extremly easy. To a lesser extent, is the concern about our longevity or sustainability. Let's tackle this issue head on shall we ?

1. Competitive sustainability - If our product is good enough to attract your business in the first place, then by this metric at least, it's reasonable to expect we'll be around.

2. Debt / liquidation concerns - Some companies have a great product but get into too much debt and are forced to liquidate. We however are profitable and debt free (as of 2013) .

3. Sustainability in terms of risk of acquisition - Every day you hear about some big software company swallowing a smaller competitor, which no doubt brings concern to the acquired company's customers. It seems that not enough companies are willing to organically cultivate their business models for the long term(an old world vineyard cultivating its grapes comes to mind). Too many are only interested in the quickest path to the biggest buck. This is particularly true in the software industry. Not so with BizAutomation.com, a company founded in 2002 with 100% employee ownership. In fact, had it not been for our tenacious obsession for what we do, we would have long been a foot note in the history of .coms. And this is why we believe we're credible when we ask our customers to believe us when we say "we're not going anywhere !".