Learn why you should be outsourcing tax compliance
Common Misconceptions About Outsourcing Sales Tax Compliance
As we talk to tax executives across the U.S. about sales and use tax returns outsourcing, we’ve found there are a number of misconceptions that prevent companies from considering this option. Understanding the truth about the issues and the marketplace offerings will prove that outsourcing compliance can be a valuable alternative for a tax department, allowing you to re-focus valuable resources within your business while remaining budget conscious.
With the right provider, outsourcing returns can produce substantial benefits to your tax function—hiring an expert services provider enables you to hand off the administrative tasks of returns preparation, filing and treasury management, while staying firmly in control of compliance.
Download our white paper to learn about some of the misconceptions surrounding outsourcing returns and discover why outsourcing returns can be a valuable alternative for a tax department.
Reduce cost and increase efficiency by outsourcing the sales and use tax returns process
Returns Outsourcing: What's It All About?
With changing market conditions, companies are looking to adapt quickly and efficiently. These plans can include re-visiting business plans, reducing costs, refocusing staff, implementing new work processes, and much more. By choosing to outsource with us, businesses can regain critical resources which are typically drained by returns preparation, re-focus their tax staff on more value-added work, reduce time spent on the administrative aspects of compliance, and more.
We provide scalable returns services by producing signature-ready PDF returns or you can outsource the entire returns function. Send us your company's tax data and we can handle the returns preparation and filing, communicating with tax authorities in all jurisdictions, managing funds and payments, credit handling, and resolving notices.
Boosting user efficiency and productivity in the work-from-home economy with Microsoft Dynamics
The average company has over 300 mission-critical apps to support. With most employees now working from home, CRM applications must adapt to users, not the reverse. WalkMe running on Microsoft Dynamics 365 can create a user-friendly CRM environment to help build a more efficient and productive workforce.
In the webinar The Economic Impact of Digital Adoption, Microsoft and WalkMe will partner to bring experts who will discuss how to unveil the power of digital adoption across Dynamics 365 and its economic impact on your business. Watch the webinar NOW to explore:
- Accelerating onboarding and adoption of Dynamics 365
- Seeing and understanding usage, bottlenecks, and user productivity with Dynamics 365 adoption
- Streamlining change management and automating best practices
- The business impact of digital adoption and reaching up to 368% ROI
Speakers:
- Amir Farhi, Chief Business Development Officer, WalkMe
- Zach Cohen, North America Partner Manager, WalkMe
- Jim Kvoriak, Enterprise Sales Engineer Team Lead, WalkMe
State of Malware
As entire businesses switched to remote working, IT teams found themselves trying to fit months-long projects into days, with security an unfortunate but understandable casualty. Faced with a new landscape, cybercriminals ditched some old tactics and placed a new emphasis on gathering intelligence. And as people adapted to their “new normal,” scammers exploited their isolation with a resurgence in tech support scams. New adversaries crawled out of the woodwork, too. April’s global shutdown was accompanied by a staggering rise in the use of stalkerware, a shorthand term for the type of mobile monitoring and spyware apps that are sometimes deployed by abusive partners.
MSPs transform their endpoint security
Read about three case studies of MSPs who overcame their endpoint security challenges with Malwarebytes.
MSPs: The 5 essentials from your endpoint security partner
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are an important part of the IT environment, providing the knowledge and the trusted partnerships that enable organizations of all sizes to embrace innovations made available by our era of digital transformation.
While there has never been a more exciting time to be an MSP, there are also many challenges MSPs must navigate to acquire and preserve long-lasting client relationships. Specifically, MSPs cite maintaining profitability (27 percent), bolstering growth (33 percent), and managing cybersecurity (30 percent) as some of their top business issues.
When it comes to managing cybersecurity, safeguarding client endpoints is a critical piece of the MSP service offering. MSPs should have an endpoint security vendor that helps them overcome common issues that can cut into profits and lead to client churn.
Your selected endpoint security vendor should ensure that you can streamline your client deployments, simplify your ability to prioritize your response efforts, and manage your clients at scale. Ultimately, your vendor should optimize the efficiency of your time and efforts so that you can continue to grow your business and maximize revenue.
Malwarebytes integration with ConnectWise Automate
Malwarebytes is a leader in the endpoint security space for MSPs with a best-in-class endpoint security portfolio. Its integration with ConnectWise Automate syncs data between both solutions so you can deliver strong client endpoint security using the latest Malwarebytes scanning and remediation tools. MSPs can also uncover new options for generating revenue by offering endpoint security as a new product and service offering.
Penetration Testing: Protecting Your Company the Right Way
Just as doctors must probe their patients to uncover hidden maladies or diseases, so too must companies probe their networks, systems, applications, and web assets to uncover weaknesses subject to possible hacking. The practice is called Penetration Testing, or pen testing for short. As with all issues relating to security, there are optimal ways of conduct pen tests and less than ideal ways.
This article addresses:
- The scope of cybercrime and other issues requiring rigorous pen testing
- Types of pen tests
- Expectations and responsibilities of pen testers
- Generally accepted best practices for pen testing
- Top tools to assist with pen testing
- Considerations for performing pen testing by internal staff or an outsourced firm
The IT Leadership Playbook
Regardless of what’s on your business card, you’re the coach of your IT team. Your team is looking to you for a game plan and your organization’s leadership is looking for results.
Just like a sports team, your IT team has generalists and specialists, rookies and veterans. How do you meet the needs of all of these players? How do you help them achieve their goals?
It’s up to you to field an effective team every day and anticipate the future needs of your organization… all while IT unemployment is at an all-time low.
Welcome to the IT leadership playbook. Finally, you’ve got a resource to help you achieve a winning record.
The IT Training Buyer’s Guide & Checklist
The shift to digital learning for IT professionals has been underway for years, and it has only accelerated as IT teams have adapted to working from home during the forced Coronavirus lockdown. As the demand for online and distance learning options has grown, the IT training landscape has expanded. Luckily for business owners and tech leaders, there was already a robust marketplace for IT training options to fit the needs of remote teams.
Digital learning platforms provide a number of advantages for businesses looking to keep their staff trained and certified, but it’s important to choose a program that is right for your team’s needs. With a range of price, quality, and curricula, leaders should carefully consider a number of factors when selecting an IT training partner.
As your teams continue to adapt to new challenges for work and learning, use this guide to determine how to best support your teams with online IT training and certification.In this Guide, you will learn
- Why Online Training is a Fit for IT Teams
- The Features Your Teams Want
- Tools for Leaders and Managers
- How to Choose the Vendor for You
- Get Your Selection Checklist
Best Practices for Increasing Sales Commission Transparency
Learn how Optus, the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, streamlined their sales commissions process and dramatically improved transparency for sales reps, managers and executives alike. Today they leverage Performio to manage commissions for 2500 sales reps, representing 40% of their employee base, across 12 business units.
Register for the webinar and discover how they overcame these sales compensation challenges:
- Outgrown their legacy in-house solution
- Inefficient and manual Excel-based process
- Highly complex plans that change frequently
- Auditing and compliance
- Source system data issues
In addition, you will get best practice advice on selecting and implementing an Incentive Compensation Management solution. Register for the March 25th webinar today!
Take control of your open source supply chain with Tidelift catalogs
The phrase “software supply chain” is making unlikely front-page headlines thanks to the breach impacting SolarWinds and its customers around the world. Meanwhile, open source continues to become a larger and larger part of application development, with our research showing that 92% of applications contain open source components.
So for organizations now seeing software supply chain health as a key imperative, tackling open source software supply chain health is more critical than ever.
During this short, 30-minute webinar our product team demonstrates how you can use the Tidelift Subscription as the heart of an effective open source supply chain management strategy.
In this webinar:
- We'll show you how to design a comprehensive strategy for managing open source usage across the organization.
- We’ll demonstrate Tidelift custom catalogs, including the ability to create, track, and manage catalogs of open source components and the policies that govern them across the organization.
- We'll explore how Tidelift-managed catalogs can give your organization a head start on building a paved path of approved components for development teams to use, similar to how the larges.
The Tidelift guide to managed open source
How to develop an effective strategy for maintaining the health of your organization’s open source supply chain
Managed open source is a strategic way for organizations to consistently manage, secure, and maintain the health of their open source supply chain. This guide explains how a managed open source strategy can help your development team save time and reduce risk when using open source to develop applications.
Learn more about:
- What a managed open source strategy is and how it works
- The areas in which unmanaged open source drains productivity and increases risk
- How to create, track, and manage customizable catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained open source components
Secure cloud video-streaming & premium quality of experience with Harmonic & Microsoft Azure
Reliable, quality video streaming and delivery has taken on critical business importance as many areas of daily life move into the digital realm. Now is the time to unlock business opportunity from your video content with AI-driven and scalable video delivery solutions that enable greater monetization.
With a cloud-based approach to video, you can increase monetization opportunities, ensure low latency streaming, and create high-value channels with the agility you need to scale in real-time. Explore the shift from passive, traditional broadcast viewing to more personalized, interactive on-screen experiences that drive higher per-user revenues and increase customer loyalty.
Learn more in the e-book Deliver Video Streaming Services with the Power of the Cloud and discover how Harmonic’s VOS360 cloud video streaming platforms:
- Provide a secure, cloud-based solution for even the most complex video workflows
- Enable dynamic, server-side ad insertion for targeted advertising
- Ensure maximum uptime for worldwide service continuity
- Simplify media workflows with unrivaled video quality on every screen
Best Practices Kit: 5 Key Considerations When Buying An ICM Solution
Build the Business Case with a True ROI
Are you ready for Incentive Compensation Management?
Properly implemented, incentive compensation management software enables organizations to automate sales commission calculations, easily communicate sales comp to reps, and provide actionable insights by having all sales comp data in one place. By investing in an incentive compensation management solution, companies can dramatically reduce the cost and pain of managing sales comp and increase revenue by offering their sales team clear visibility into their performance against targets.
Before you embark on your ICM initiative, make sure you’ve given time to consider the factors that can spell the difference between success and failure. In this kit, we outline 5 key considerations when evaluating whether to invest in an ICM solution. By adhering to these important steps, you can ensure you have a successful project and do not risk a failed implementation.
What You Will Learn in this Best Practices Kit- 5 Key Considerations:
- Lay the Essential Groundwork
- Start with the End in Mind
- 6 Key Areas to Consider when Evaluating ICM Vendors
- Identify the Internal Evaluation Team and Start Plan
- Make the Business Case by Developing the Strongest ROI
- Start with the End in Mind
