Sleeter Group Reports Intuit Discontinues Salesforce for QuickBooks

Charlie Russell for Sleeter Group writes: Today Intuit announced that they are discontinuing their Salesforce for QuickBooks subscription service (both the CRM subscription itself and the QuickBooks/Salesforce integration app), effective December 3 of 2014. I wrote about Salesforce for QuickBooks when it was introduced in 2011. All current subscribers have been notified, and there is a transition plan in place to move subscribers from the Intuit version of the subscription to a full-fledged Salesforce subscription.

Am I surprised? No, not really. I’ve been expecting this for some time now. Intuit announced the initial integration with great fanfare, and people thought that this would be a great “strategic partnership” between the two companies. However, the initial integration had a lot of limitations – it was only set up for the lower level of Salesforce capabilities and it didn’t play well with many Salesforce extensions. I’ve never thought of Salesforce as being a product aimed at smaller businesses, so the partnership with Intuit didn’t really make sense to me at the time. [snip].  The article continues @ The Sleeter Group, click here to continue reading...