txtaxati wrote:In the grand scheme of things, Practice CS's integrations with other CS Suite software is not particularly large or valuable, when weighed against its drawbacks.
Specifically, Practice CS integrates as follows:[...]
That's about it. What's missing:
I last used Practice CS over 7 years ago, but it doesn't sound from your report like it has changed much.
One big thing you did not mention is the multi-user aspect. In the office where I worked with Practice CS, we could use the status reports to track progress on each project across the entire team.
It is a hurdle to implement, and the reporting while very powerful does require some advanced software skills. If anyone pays the annual fee simply based on what the sales person told them, they are probably over-paying.
Tax Me Up wrote:We already use their Practice CS for time & billing, which evidently does a lot more than we realize
That's my point -- you've been paying for features you aren't fully using, for whatever reason.