As long as you can save business documents locally and exchange them with colleagues and business partners, there's no reason to purchased and maintain your office productivity suite. The same holds true for other types of business software. Suppose you use Peachtree's accounting software. CRM software can be tricky to set up, and products span a wide array of price points. Also, the CRM market is going through a shakeout, making it very difficult to predict which vendor's product will last.
Packages range from no cost to several thousand dollars per year, and everything in between.
Many offer trial periods. Write to me . Contributing Editor Maggie Biggs has more than 15 years of business and IT experience in the financial sector.