SMO versus SME

SMO and SME are for very different markets and businesses
This guide will help determine if your business should use SMO or SME

Choose SME if your business needs the following capabilities:

• Inventory Management: SME has extensive inventory management with multiple warehouses, serialized inventory, and detailed inventory counts.
• On-premise solution: SME is offered on-premise on your in house servers.
• Microsoft SQL Server: SME runs on Microsoft SQL server allowing you to leverage other MS SQL tools and capabilities.
• Recurring Invoices and Recurring Orders: SME handles robust recurring invoices and orders.
• Maintenance Contracts: SME supports maintenance contracts connected to customer equipment and recurring invoices.
• Customer Equipment Management: SME has extensive customer equipment management with hierarchical views, warranty tracking and custom fields
• QuickBooks Sync: Most robust QuickBooks synchronization in the market with QuickBooks Gold certification.

Choose SMO if your business needs the following capabilities:

• Online, hosted, Software as a Service (SaaS) solution so no servers or infrastructure is required for your business
• High speed, searchable, online solution available on any browser including Windows PC, Apple Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, Smartphones, and Notebooks.
• Help Desk ticketing system
• Integrated email messaging
• Work Orders with items, tasks, and totals
• Item and Catalog management without inventory management
• Dashboard to integrate other web service systems
• QuickBooks Sync through Intuit Anywhere and Intuit Sync Manager on Intuit Partner Platform providing single sign-on from IPP to SMO
• Google Apps integration