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The Top 40 Accounting

Software Products

For more than ten years I've maintained a listing of the top accounting software packages by category. The paragraphs below explain the basis for inclusion in this list. I hope that you find this listing useful. ©

Top Ten Low-End Accounting Software Market (Companies with Up to $5 Million in Revenue) (Listed in Alphabetical Order)
1.	BusinessVision 32 (Best Software)
2.	Small Business Manager (Microsoft)
3.	M.Y.O.B (M.Y.O.B. Software)
4.	Peachtree Complete Accounting 2004 (Best Software)
5.	QuickBooks Pro 2003 (Intuit)
6.	Simply Accounting (Best Software)
7.	NetSuite
8.	Vision Point 2000 (Best Software)

Top Ten Middle-Market Accounting Software Market(Companies with $2 Million to $50 Million in Revenue) (Listed in Alphabetical Order)
1.	ACCPAC Advantage Series Corporate Edition (Best Software)
2.	ACCPAC ProSeries (Best Software)
3.	Accountmate (Best Software)
4.	BusinessVision 32 (Best Software)
5.	Great Plains (Microsoft)
6.	MAS 90 & MAS 200 (Best Software)
7.	Navision (Microsoft)
8.	Solomon (Microsoft)
9.	SouthWare Excellence Series (SouthWare)
10.	SYSPRO (SysproUSA)

Top Ten in the Beginning ERP Market (Companies with $25 Million to $500 Million in Revenue) (Listed in Alphabetical Order)
1.	ACCPAC Advantage Series Enterprise Edition (Best Software)
2.	ACCPAC ProSeries (Best Software)
3.	Axapta (Microsoft Software)
4.	Epicor (Epicor Software)
5.	e-Business Suite (Oracle)
6.	Great Plains (Microsoft)
7.	SYSPRO (SysproUSA)
8.	MAS 500 (Best Software)
9.	Navision (Microsoft)
10.	Solomon (Microsoft)

Top Ten in the Tier 1 Market (Companies with revenue Ranging from $250 Million and Up) (Listed in Alphabetical Order)
1.	ACCPAC Advantage Series Enterprise Edition (Best Software)
2.	Axapta (Microsoft)
3.	Epicor (Epicor )
4.	Great Plains (Microsoft)
5.	Lawson Enterprise 400 (Lawson Software)
6.	MAS 500 (Best Software)
7.	PeopleSoft World (PeopleSoft)
8.	Oracle Financials (Oracle)
9.	PeopleSoft (PeopleSoft)
10.	SAP R/3 (SAP) There are thousands of accounting software packages in the marketplace today. Each one of these packages offers unique features and capabilities that are to be commended, admired, and sometimes applauded. However, upon close inspection, it is easy to see that most of them suffer from obvious problems such as older technology, proprietary technology, lack of support, lack of an adequate size customer base, lack of a distribution channel, poor performance on a local area network, bugs, missing modules, missing key features, lack of capital, etc. We strive to weed out the lesser players and concentrate our web site on the better-known, widely-deployed, well-proven solutions. In our opinion, there are only a handful of accounting software solutions available today that offer a proven and complete solution for this market. These products all share the following attributes: The product must have good, clean, stable code The product must have good underlying technology The product must have a good company & leadership behind the product The product must have strong financial reporting capabilities The product must have a sizable customer base The product must have strong customization capabilities The product must have a well-developed and knowledgeable VAR channel The product must have a wide breadth of modules The product must have a well-developed offering of third party add-on products There should be a minimal number of missing features There should be no significant problems (such as missing modules, etc