Tag Archives: accounting

February 21, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

FinancialForce on a Tear

By Ben Kepes

When salesforce.com invested in FinancialForce a few years ago, there was keen interest in how this would help the company grow. There’s never been much clarity around those numbers since the parent company of FinancialForce, Unit4, doesn’t break out the individual numbers of operating divisions. That is a bit clearer now since

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November 12, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Harvest Launches Time Tracking Platform-The Rise of the Real Time Business Application Approach

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time the other day talking with Tom Mornini, founder of Boocx (more on them to come). Suffice it to say Boocx is focused on becoming the accounting platform for web developers – but platform in the true sense of the word – some core pieces of infrastructure

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September 30, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Xero Rolls Out Some More Network Effects and Faces Some Criticism. Some Lessons on Viral Strategies

By Ben Kepes

Xero (disclosure – I’ve done a tiny bit of consulting for Xero and am co-founder of LiveMigrate, a service that migrates businesses from desktop accounting applications to Xero) rolled out a new update this week which included some interesting and valuable features. The introduction of online invoicing is a bit of

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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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April 23, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xero Nabs Intuit Exec

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long wondered how Xero will execute upon its North American opportunity – after all North America is the real goal for the company, and also where they face the biggest hurdles to success. I’ve even been roundly criticized for articulating this question I’ve spent some time with Xero’s US

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November 18, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Wave Goes Payroll

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Wave Accounting, a vendor that is hoping to turn SMB accounting software on its head by delivering a product at a zero price point and monetizing through the smart utilization of aggregate data. The jury is out as to SMBs appetite for their data being used,

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November 4, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Easing the On Ramp–Xero Makes a Logical Move, Three Years On

By Ben Kepes

Around three years ago, before some “heated” discussions made communication between us a little strained, I spent a fair amount of time talking with Xero CEO Rod Drury around the Cloud/SaaS market generally. Those conversations started well before the Xero IPO when he was still shopping little more than a

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August 16, 2011 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Sage bids for MYOB. An Uber Alliance in the Making?

By Ben Kepes

Breaking news just to hand that UK accounting vendor Sage is considering making a bid for Australasian vendor MYOB. Sage has long had a strategy of growth by acquisition and tends to let the acquired company continue to run independently – this has led to some confusion in the past.

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August 5, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

QuoteRoller Eases the Quote to Contract Process

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I discover a little application that really reminds me just how enabling technology can be, specially for small and medium businesses. This enablement is powered by varying degrees of some different themes – the cloud, mobile computing, ubiquitous internet access and the world of APIs. It’s

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July 29, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Reporting Season–NetSuite and Intacct go Stratospheric

By Ben Kepes

In these strained economic times with businesses retrenching and pulling back on non-essential projects, one could have expected to see the reported numbers for software companies also trend downwards. Right? Well not if a couple of recent results from SaaS accounting firms are anything to go by. Intacct Firstly Intacct,

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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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