ITWire

OBT will add the suite to its existing lineup of cloud services for the accounting sector.

"Partnering with Sage HandiSoft was a natural choice. By partnering with them to deliver a comprehensive private cloud solution, practices can benefit from an industry tailored solution and leverage our 12 years of experience in delivering cloud services to the accounting sector – now combined with the full functionality of Sage HandiSoft," said Shane Muller, founder and managing director, OBT.

"Firms can now have a single technology partner that relieves the burden IT can present to a business and focus on running their business and managing compliance rather than on co-ordinating their technology requirements.

"Additionally, it provides an ideal platform to incorporate unified communications, enabling the professional services market to communicate in a richer way with teams and clients," he said.

Gary Weisz, national sales and marketing manager, Sage HandiSoft, said "Today, the cloud is a great way of delivering software and mobility and we're now able to offer clients the opportunity to enhance enterprise application mobility and eliminate the pain and cost of maintaining an on premise IT platform which is typically a time consuming pursuit.

"We selected OBT to support our client-base on account of the company's market credibility, industry recognition, reliability and successful track record in supporting professional services firms in the cloud."