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April 5, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Small Business Accounting, Yodlee, Perceptions and Critical Mass

By Ben Kepes

UK (and global, to an extent) SMB accounting vendor FreeAgent recently announced that it was rolling out automated bank feeds for its customers. For those of you who don’t follow the space, automatic bank feeds (the ability for a small business to have all it’s transactions show up within its

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March 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Xero Share Price – One Pundit’s Analysis

By Ben Kepes

In recent weeks the share price for listed cloud accounting vendor Xero has risen at an incredibly fast rate. The company, which has around 140000 paying customers globally and is yet to turn a profit, is now valued at close to $1.5B. This is a staggering achievement and something I

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September 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Levion and the Promise of Hybrid Accounting Software

By Ben Kepes

As the accounting software industry moves to a general acceptance of the fact that customers demand the sort of benefits that cloud application bring, there are two distinct approaches vnedors are making; Pure-play cloud vendors (FreeAgent, Xero etc) build pure Saas applications and do away with any need for desktop

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July 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

By Ben Kepes

Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique and questioning, Xero’s events instead ring to the sound of hand-clapping

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July 15, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Rumors Suggest Xero to Announce Acquisitions at Xerocon

By Ben Kepes

Update 2 – Well, it seems I was right – as I predicted Xero did not acquire Vend and did acquire a practice management vendors (Spotlight Workpapers whom I referred to in a previous post). This gives Xero a more credible practice management suite and should stand them in good

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May 3, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

By Ben Kepes

Big news in the SaaS accounting space this morning as FreeAgent announces that it has acquired US accounting provider 60mo and will be using the company as its vehicle for a US expansion. 60mo is a small SaaS provider that has quietly been going about building a small following for

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March 28, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

By Ben Kepes

Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have to provide for multi-currency. n a post discussing this AccMan says

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February 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Brightpearl Delivers in a Multi Channel World

By Ben Kepes

Nearly three years ago in a fit of frustration I wrote a post detailing what I considered to be a relatively obvious set of requirements for a small manufacturing business I am a shareholder in. To recap – we currently use a bunch of disconnected systems because there is no

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January 23, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

FreeAgent Eases Life for Freelancers and their Expenses Conundrum

By Ben Kepes

Like many freelancers, I incur significant expenses in the course of my contracting work and have to on-charge these expenses to clients. Ideally I’d tick a box in my accounting application and that would allow that cost to flow through to a client invoice without me having to enter it

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October 26, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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