News today that Saasu (more on them here), the online accounting software vendor, and Acclipse, the accounting practice management software vendor, have formed a deep partnership to market an end to end system that allows accountants and businesses to work off the same data. This follows on from MYOB’s moves
Another in my recurring theme of PR disasters. Over on Twitter a strategist for BBH sent me a request to DM me. I responded saying that my email address is everywhere online and she just needed to find that and email me. After telling me she couldn’t find my address
SaaS applications give the ability to build very specific vertical applications that tie together several different functional areas to really meet the needs of a particular class of business. Intacct today announced an example of this “long tail” approach in action.
Normally I’m not overly interested in the press releases that come from vendors regularly boasting about a customer they’ve stolen from their competitors, however one I received today is kind of interesting. I’ve written before about both NetSuite and FinancialForce in the past. Briefly NetSuite is the big-boy in mid
I received notification today that there is a planned outage for Xero soon that will see them roll out of some changes to allow for an accountant’s ledger. The changes that the cloud will bring to accounting are a real interest area for me so I spent some time talking
Later this month VMware will host its annual conference, VMWorld. Will we see VMware make a strong move to open source as one commentator predicts? Bear in mind that VMware faces some existing threats from open source products and need to make a bold statement
This morning MYOB flicked the switch on its new online small business accounting solution, LiveAccounts (disclosure – I’ve been consulting with MYOB on their cloud strategy). First some details: $25 a month (including GST) unlimited in terms of invoices entered up to 100 statement lines from any automatic bank feed
Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include many industries from manufacturing and property to technology. More on Ben
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