Cougar Mountain Software
Encyclopedia
Cougar Mountain Software is a privately-held company based in Boise, Idaho
that manufactures and markets accounting software
, retail software
and business software
to small to mid-sized companies. They are a Microsoft
Certified Partner.
application. The company's first Windows
product, CMS Professional, was introduced in 1997. In 2006, Cougar Mountain Software introduced Denali, which is based on Microsoft SQL Server
technology. Cougar Mountain Software products are developed and supported from Boise, Idaho (USA).
Boise, Idaho
Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho, as well as the county seat of Ada County. Located on the Boise River, it anchors the Boise City-Nampa metropolitan area and is the largest city between Salt Lake City, Utah and Portland, Oregon.As of the 2010 Census Bureau,...
that manufactures and markets accounting software
Accounting software
Accounting software is application software that records and processes accounting transactions within functional modules such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and trial balance. It functions as an accounting information system...
, retail software
Retail software
Retail software is computer software sold to end consumers, usually under restricted licenses. Until the emergence of the Internet, retail software represented, until the 2000s, the vast majority of all end consumer software used and was referred to as shrinkware because software almost always...
and business software
Business software
This article is about software made for business, if you were looking for the business of selling software, see Software business.Business software is generally any software program that helps a business increase productivity or measure their productivity...
to small to mid-sized companies. They are a Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
Certified Partner.
History
It was founded by Bob Gossett in 1982 The company's first accounting product was introduced as a DOSDOS
DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...
application. The company's first Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
product, CMS Professional, was introduced in 1997. In 2006, Cougar Mountain Software introduced Denali, which is based on Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
technology. Cougar Mountain Software products are developed and supported from Boise, Idaho (USA).
Articles
- Making the Accounting Software Decision, Society of Nonprofit Organizations
- NPO Software Measures Up Journal of Accountancy
- Taking Full Advantage of Accounting Software WebCPA
External links
- Cougar Mountain Software website (main company website)
- Cougar Mountain Software Service website (user website)
- Cougar Mountain Blog (user website)