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Nimbus recently had the privilege to do an interview with Alan Fitzgerald, the Founder of Practice Connections. For the last 20 years Alan has been in tax and accounting software industry, and for the last three years, as an independent consultant offering advice to accounting firms big and small. We asked Alan a couple ofRead more

Xerocon 2018 certainly kicked off with a bang!  With 3700 delegates attending jam-packed sessions over 2 days, our Nimbus team was armed and ready to serve all the busy feet passing through. The venue was buzzing between the session breaks. And we were delighted to see a few of our smiling clients stopping by toRead more

What is next for Accountants?   This great question is the title of a book by Shane Lukas, Managing Director of AVN – a business focused on helping accountants in practice to improve the way they run their businesses.   Nimbus Portals had the privilege to do a private interview with Shane and ask himRead more

Every successful firm focuses intently on their customer’s success. If your customers are successful, your firm will also be successful. They develop a strong loyalty to your product and brand, and successful customers become your best product ambassadors. Through customisation and personalisation, your product or service can enhance your customer’s success and drive revenue throughRead more

SaaS… a Wealth of Benefits Software as a Service, also known as SaaS, has dramatically changed the landscape for both software vendors and end users. From an app that you download onto your mobile device, to multi-tiered systems used by large corporations, SaaS made significant inroads and the playing field has been levelled in aRead more

Security is an even bigger risk, now that the GDPR and NDB is upon us. Note that this article advocates for either encrypting everything or stick to the cloud, whereas at Nimbus we believe that you should both stick to the cloud AND encrypt everything. This article first appeared on DigitalFirst.com by Sholto Macpherson Top securityRead more

Why Digitally Signing Documents in Nimbus Makes Sense Have you ever wondered how secure your personal information is that you send over email? Statistics show that more than 95% of all emails are still unencrypted, and email malware creation is up 26% year over year. Email was simply not designed with any privacy or securityRead more

GDPR is an abbreviation we’re all getting more familiar with. It’s the General Data Protection Regulation from the European Union, which comes into effect on May 25th 2018. And for us Australians, it is not dissimilar to our own NDB (Notifiable Data Breach scheme), which came into effect on 22nd February 2018. We are toldRead more

Our change to cloud software was forced onto Oculus by one of our software providers discontinuing support.  We first implemented Xero Practice Manager and then needed an online document management option that integrated with Xero PM. I’ve been with Oculus 2 years and when I arrived, the Practice did all their work on desktop withRead more

Repetitive time wasting at work lowers efficiency and profitability. Professional businesses tell us their number one workflow problem is wasting time passing information from one software product to another.  It often involves copying or exporting a document and then signing into another program to work on it, or uploading an downloading to another website. WhatRead more