K2 Enterprises Announces the 11th Annual 2012 K2 Quality Award Winners

Oringally published on K2 Enterprises’ website.

K2 Enterprises has released their annual technology awards for 2012. According Val Steed, CEO K2 Enterprises, “We want to acknowledge the leadership in Cloud and Mobile solutions so we expanded the awards to recognize this growing arena of technology.” K2 has been providing the K2 Quality Awards now for eleven years. “My sincere congratulations to all winners!” said Randy Johnston, Executive V.P. “anyone who can sway over our team members really deserves to recognition” added Brian Tankersley, Director of Strategic Relationships.

K2 Enterprises Annual Quality Awards are determined by a voting poll of the K2 Enterprises instructor team. The polling members of this team are Randy Johnston, Will Fleenor, Val Steed, Brian Tankersley, Tommy Stephens, Bob Spencer, Ilene Eisen, Lawrence (Mac) McClelland, John Keegan, and Karl Egnatoff.

2012 Categories and Winners:

Small CPA Firm Solution – Office Tools Professional
Best Overall Mobile Strategy – Sage Software
Best New Mobile App – Xero Touch – Xero Online Accounting
Reseller Program – Open Systems
CPA Program – Intuit Pro Advisor – Intuit, Inc.
Reseller Channel – Open Systems
New Product – Beyond415 – New River Innovation
New Module – CYMA – HR Module
Management Strategy – Doc.It
Technical Support – Concur
Customer Satisfaction – SurePrep
Ease of Use – Bill.com
Marketing Communications – Freshbooks Cloud Accounting
Overall Quality – Avalara
Tax Technology – SP Binder – SurePrep
Audit Technology – Knowledge Coach – CCH
Business Intelligence Solution – Biznet
Workflow Solution – XCM Workflow Solutions – XCM, Inc.
Small Business Accounting Solution – Xero Online Accounting
Entry-Level Accounting Upgrade Solution – Open Systems
Top Hosting Provider – Cloud9 Real Time
Social Media – Kasey Bayne – Freshbooks Cloud Accounting
Cloud Power Solution – Concur Small Business Edition
Cloud Ease of Use – Dropbox
Cloud Top Shelf Award – Beyond415 – New River Innovation
Cloud New Product – ValueAppeal
Cloud Portal – ShareFile – Citrix

K2 Enterprises is a Hammond, Louisiana-based organization that provides continuing professional education services to the accounting profession and marketing consulting services to technology providers in the accounting market. K2 Enterprises delivers approximately 1,000 educational programs to over 50,000 professional accountants on an annual basis throughout the United States and Canada.

K2 team votes are influenced by end user feedback and experience from consulting and extensive teaching. Detailed biographies on each of the polled members can be found at http://www.k2e.com/team.