The Best Web-Based Software for Small Businesses

Accounting
Our Pick: Freshbooks
With its remarkably easy sign up and robust service offering, Freshbooks is the crème de la crème of accounting software for small businesses. The online bookkeeping service (which touts itself as “painless billing”) offers real-time web-based integration, online invoicing, time tracking, preliminary estimates, and much more.

Productivity/Collaboration
Our Pick: Google Apps Premier Edition
Boasting the Google name, it has to be good, right? The popular Google Apps offers a richer yet user-friendly version with its Premier Edition. At nearly a 1/3 of the cost of leading competitors, the Premier Edition allows users to message and collaborate anytime, anywhere. It also has over-the-air mobile access on several smartphone and handheld devices including Blackberry and the iPhone.

Online Backup
Our Pick: Mozy
You didn’t think a reliable online file storage program could be affordable and reliable, did you? Enter MozyPro, an online backup solution designed to meet the backup challenges faced by many small to medium-sized businesses. An extensive feature list which includes military-grade encryption and multiple restore options makes Mozy the ideal backup solution for businesses of any size.