Archive for March, 2008

What’s coming for Xero…

Published by Ben Kepes on March 20, 2008 in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy and Web x.0. 2 Comments

A browse of the Xero website this afternoon shows a list of some features due to be released in the coming months. Stuff to look out for includes;

  • Job costing
  • Multi-currency
  • Quoting
  • Statements

The full comparison chart is here.
Of course it’s a very Xero-centric chart, it doesn’t show the stuff that the competition does and Xero does not. Some features that I’d like to see included ASAP include;

  • Native payroll (ie the same look and feel as Xero)
  • Inventory
  • Automatic payments from Xero
  • A wizard to set up Xero automagically

With these things in place, Xero would do all that the others do, with the added benefits that SaaS brings.

Watch this space…

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Censorship alive and kicking….

Published by Ben Kepes on March 20, 2008 in New Zealand and Society. 2 Comments

Print media is so out of touch with reality…

News this morning that Fairfax media hired casual staff in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to remove pages 5 and 6, 45 and 46 from about 200,000 copies of the Sunday Star Times liftout last week after it was discovered that… shock horror… a link was printed to a website run by porn queen Suzanne Portnoy. This raises two interesting, and somewhat dichotomous, points;

  • It’s available to anyone with an internet connection, a browser and a search engine - censorship is futile
  • If it’s that outside the tastes and interests of your readership, why print it at all - isn’t it merely low brow titillation otherwise?

Fairfax lost out both ways - first by scraping the barrel and printing the dribble and then by a last ditch attempt to censor it

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Some more information about collaboration solutions…

Published by Ben Kepes on March 20, 2008 in Collaboration, IT, New business and SaaS. 0 Comments

Subsequent to my discussions with Jason from GroupSwim yesterday, he sent me a couple of interesting papers.

The first is a case study showing what the GroupSwim product has done for a customer with a distributed employee base. It shows some good, simple wins from moving to a well created collaborative environment. Read it here.

The second is a whitepaper that looks at enterprise community collaboration in general. It’s obviously GroupSwim-centric but goes some way to explain the presentation that I posted yesterday. Check it out here.

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GroupSwim update…

Published by Ben Kepes on March 19, 2008 in Collaboration, Design, IT, New business, SaaS and Web x.0. 0 Comments

Further to my post this morning about exciting up and coming community collaboration facilitation software GroupSwim, here is a slideshow detailing the basics of their offering.

Enjoy!

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