Speedflow is offering their AccuCore product, which is described by company officials as 'complex accounting and financial analysis software for all VoIP business processes.'

It can be used for accounting of different business activities and has a tool for financial management as well.

Company officials say the product generates reports by IAS and GAAP standards. 'Besides,' they say, 'we have developed our own system of informative and convenient reports, which show all parameters of business processes and simplify financial analysis.'

The program can be integrated with external billing systems of VoIP business. It also allows for automatic data handling, the minimization of possible operators' mistakes, complete history storage of all data modifications, useful reports for financial analysis and 'simple parameters adjustment according to your requirements,' Speedflow officials say.

One module available is for comparison. 'CDR comparison is a frequent necessary measure in VoIP,' company officials say. 'Companies constantly deal with the discrepancies in their partners' data due to call duration differences. The comparison procedure takes a great deal of lengthy and routine processes.'

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Dean, the blogger for Britain's Mobile Computing News, recently published a good piece on billing software, kicking off with the unarguable observation that "every company on the planet needs to have ways of accounting for the money that comes in and out of the business."

So what are these ways? Friends, let Dean count the ways:

Harvest. "It's a fantastic application," Dean thinks, letting you know up front where he's coming from. This web app "allows you to do project management and time tracking for projects you're working on, which you then can bill directly out of Harvest."

And here's the nice part: It's free with limited use, at $12 per month for single users and from $90 per month for businesses. At that price, Dean notes, "it doesn't have full-fledged accounting built into it," but for us freelancers that's a bonus.

Sage Instant Accounts v16. "Heaped in praise and for good reason - it just works," Dean says. Indeed - it's aimed at SMBs, and has great billing technology coupled with built-in comprehensive automated accounting. The video tutorials with it are "surprisingly revealing about intelligent accounting practices," according to Dean.

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Industry observer Alison Diana noted recently that Spiceworks, which developed a free systems management, inventory, and help-desk software application for network administrators and small and midsize businesses, launched the Reach channel program.

The program is "designed to give cloud-based service providers access to a million users of the Spiceworks social IT management application," Diana says.

The program "includes integration APIs and services that enable vendors to make their cloud services manageable from within Spiceworks," she writes, adding that users "then can manage both onsite and cloud-based technologies through one IT management application interface."

Evidently the software developer has built a Facebook-like community of IT professionals to support collaboration and communication, as well as the management of cloud-based and on-premises technologies.

Spiceworks' 1 million SMB IT professionals "support about 35 million workers, manage 59 million computers and devices, and spend approximately $175 billion per year on technology products and services," according to company officials.

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Industry observer Jessica Dolcourt likes Google Voice. "I really do," she insists, adding "now that the search giant has thrown open the gates to make Google Voice free for anyone in the U.S., many more people will get the opportunity to pick and praise."

Yet it's not perfect. What is, other than Golden Retrievers? "Inconsistencies, especially with the computer-aided transcription of voice mail messages and with phone number mess-ups in the Google Voice mobile apps, have continuously disappointed," Dolcourt notes.

Google Voice is one of Google's surprisingly few success stories recently, with the burning carcasses of Wave and Buzz stinking up the landscape. Google is anxious for it do well to keep the company on schedule for absolute and total world dominance.

It's pulling its weight, having "more than a million subscribers while it was still in invite-only private mode," Dolcourt writes, judging correctly that those are by far the most forgiving one million users possible on the planet.

"I suspect millions more callers will be less forgiving once the thrill of accessing another hot Google service wears off," she says.

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