Best Software To Hold Competition At Bay
Part Four: Challenges & User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - December 23, 2002

Challenges

Best Software has also long opened its software to third-party developers to spur broader industry-oriented capabilities, and it has also been integrating its desktop software and Web services (e.g., by offering e-mail invoicing and electronic bill payment). As for the industry focus, Best Software’s aiming at four key vertical industries -- distribution, manufacturing, non-profit and accounting -- with each segment soon to have its own entry-level version of Peachtree, is logical. Peachtree for Manufacturing and Peachtree for Distribution, which are slated for release in 2003, will complement MAS 90, MAS 200 and MAS 500 products, which have more advanced levels of manufacturing automation and distribution..