As of yet this new ‘insights’ page provides no real insights into where our business is headed. You see the jet cockpit displays not only tells us our present condition and where we have been, but more importantly ‘where we are going’.
Unfortunately, that’s where the similarities with the Boeing 777 cockpit end.
Now if we only had some meaningful analytics like business ratios, or true income trending, or realistic projections of net profit over time, not just historical numbers. I’ve never even seen so many pretty colors in my QuickBooks this is professional dashboard quality graphics, with a lot of ‘eye appeal’. In today’s world of ‘everything visual’, this new Insights view is more like the digital display of a Boeing 777 than our old familiar QuickBooks. The days of looking at page-after-page and row-after-row of ‘just numbers’ is hardly exciting for someone who commutes to work by helicopter and gets to their next job by private jet. More likely they are just trying to standardize the basics of the product line to keep one group from going “why don’t we have what the other product has?”įor a lot of executive, management and owners the types of depictions shown on this page are exactly what they are looking for in the way of ‘management reports’. Could it be that Intuit is trying to get everyone, including their loyal desktop fans, use to the QBO way of looking at things? Only time will tell.
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If it reminds you of the presentations you have seen in both QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks for Mac then you are right, there are distinct similarities. This new ‘Insights” page is full of colorful information about your business. The new Insights tab of the Home Page is an example of this (Figure 1) new direction. QuickBooks is striving to become more ‘business management friendly’, and also have greater appeal to executives and management than just the bookkeepers in mid-sized businesses.