QReportBuilder Awarded Intuit Silver Developer Status

First general reporting solution designed expressly for QuickBooks aces Intuit’s Certification test, confirming the highest levels of compatibility with QuickBooks

LAS VEGAS and BURLINGTON, Mass.-August 6, 2008-QReportBuilder has earned Intuit’s QuickBooks Silver Developer Status, and is now a featured product in the Intuit Solutions Marketplace. Jointly developed by Alpha Software and FLEXquarters software companies, QReportBuilder is QuickBooks’s first full-featured reporting solution. The Intuit Developer Network’s extensive testing and approval process ensures applications awarded Intuit’s Certification are quality software products that integrate effectively with QuickBooks.

Available now for a free 30 day evaluation as an instant download on Intuit’s Solutions Marketplace, QReportBuilder produces virtually any report, including the most sophisticated business intelligence reports QuickBooks users have ever seen. These reports give users unprecedented insight into the dynamics that drive their business. With QReportBuilder, QuickBooks users better understand customer purchasing behaviors and histories, rapidly capitalize on trends, head off potential problems, and seize opportunities they’d otherwise miss.

To achieve Intuit’s Certification, QReportBuilder underwent rigorous testing by Intuit’s testing lab, ensuring the accuracy of data extracted from QuickBooks. By winning Certification, Alpha Software and FLEXquarters have demonstrated their deep knowledge of QuickBooks’ architecture, and their ability to build software that seamlessly interfaces with QuickBooks, the world’s most popular business accounting package.

With just a few clicks, QReportBuilder generates the live data output business owners and managers want from QuickBooks, in the format they need. Once QReportBuilder is installed, over 80 of QuickBooks’ standard reports become available to combine, modify, extend, or integrate with over 120 of the underlying QuickBooks data tables. Users can produce everything from custom commission reports; to sales and profitability analysis by region, product, or salesperson; to year-by-year comparisons of key business metrics; to customized letters with offers to customers who have not bought recently; and more.

QReportBuilder’s banded visual report editor also provides tools to custom design any report from scratch, using familiar Excel-style formulas for totals, subtotals, and groupings. Graphics (such as logos) are easy to add, as are highlighted areas, underlines, font styles, and other visual polish. And drag+drop visual components give users complete control over a report’s design and functionality.

Within minutes of installing QReportBuilder, users have dozens of powerful, customizable reports at their fingertips. And because they’re generated in real-time, with a live connection to the QuickBooks database, users get up-to-the-second business intelligence that’s simply not available any other way.

“Business leaders need deep, actionable insight to succeed in today’s ultra-competitive business environment, and that’s exactly what they’ll get from QReportBuilder,” says Mark Kuznar, Marketing & Sales Manager of FLEXquarters, an Alpha Software partner. “Visualizing, analyzing, and understanding your business data can be the difference between growth and profitability, or buckets of red ink. That’s why we believe QReportBuilder is the most important product for business managers since QuickBooks itself.”

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

QReportBuilder can be purchased by QuickBooks users directly at qreportbuilder.com for $299.00. A free 30 day unlimited trial version can be downloaded http://www.qreportbuilder.com/qrb_downloads.html. The program is compatible with QuickBooks 2002 through QuickBooks 2008. Discounted reseller pricing is available to QuickBooks Pro Advisors who enroll in the QReportBuilder Consultants Program at http://www.qreportbuilder.com/proadvisors.html. Report samples are available at http://www.qreportbuilder.com/samples.html. Video demos and tutorials can be viewed at http://www.qreportbuilder.com/videotutorials.html.

ABOUT QREPORTBUILDER

QReportBuilder is a joint development project of Alpha Software Inc. and FLEXquarters LLC. QReportBuilder is the first reporting engine designed expressly for Intuit’s QuickBooks, and supports all QuickBooks versions from 2002 through 2008. QReportBuilder unlocks the business intelligence value in QuickBooks data through sophisticated, customizable reporting that’s easy for anyone to use.

ABOUT ALPHA SOFTWARE INC.

Since 1982, Alpha Software has been providing developers of all experience levels with award-winning tools and technologies that make it easy to rapidly build robust database and business applications. Today over 1 million developers rely on Alpha Software’s flagship platform, Alpha Five, to build desktop, client-server, distributed, and Web 2.0 applications for organizations of any size-from SOHO to the Fortune 100. Every day, tens of millions of people and businesses rely on applications built in Alpha Five. With the introduction of Alpha Five Version 9 in 2008, Alpha Software sets new standards for speed of development, portability, reporting, and security for database applications of all stripes. The company is privately held, and based in Burlington, Mass. Alpha Software can be found on the Web at http://www.AlphaSoftware.com. The company’s blog can be read at http://Blog.AlphaSoftware.com.

ABOUT FLEXQUARTERS LLC

FLEXquarters develops software add-ons and utilities for the QuickBooks Accounting packages developed by Intuit Corporation. FLEXquarters is Premier Member of Intuit’s Developer Network, and produces the QODBC Driver for QuickBooks, the most popular add-on tool for QuickBooks, allowing transparent import and export of QuickBooks data using regular Windows desktop applications. FLEXquarters has also partnered with Intuit to include the QODBC Driver in the QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions edition for larger organizations who have higher data integration and reporting requirements. The company’s Web site is http://www.flexquarters.com.

PRESS RESOURCES

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Alpha Five Platinum microsite

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Alpha Software blog

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Alpha Software home page

http://www.alphasoftware.com

QReportBuider Web site: http://www.qreportbuilder.com

Download: http://www.qreportbuilder.com/qrb_downloads.html

Report samples: http://www.qreportbuilder.com/samples.html

Video demos and tutorials: http://www.qreportbuilder.com/videotutorials.html

Online manual: http://www.qreportbuilder.com/videotutorials.html

Webinars: http://www.qreportbuilder.com/webinars.html

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