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September 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acumatica Offers Manufacturing Software on Azure

By Ben Kepes

I have a bit of a particular interest in Cloud ERP providers moving into the manufacturing space. Manufacturing is a highly complex space and one where the traditional ERP vendors have a very strong position – manufacturing relies on complex interconnected functionalities and often needs the connection of multiple organizations,

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May 27, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acumatica Update

By Ben Kepes

It’s been six months or so since I spoke with mid-market ERP vendor Acumatica (much more on them here) so I was please to spend some time with them last week getting an update about how they’re going. As a reminder Acumatica is an interesting ERP vendor whose main differentiator

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November 3, 2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Cloud ERP Adoption Barriers–Functionality or FUD?

By Ben Kepes

Recently Frank Scavo wrote a great post regarding what he determined was the key success factor for SaaS suites: functional parity. The thesis of Scavo’s argument was that, until cloud vendors provide true functional parity with on-premise solution, a “rip and replace” will simply not be viable. As he said

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October 27, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

FinancialForce Update

By Ben Kepes

I spoke the other day with Jeremy Roche, MD of FinancialForce the accounting application built on top of force.com. Readers will recall that about a year ago Coda2Go, as FinancialForce was called then, was partially acquired by salesforce.com – I wanted to catch up with Roche and see how things

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September 27, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acumatica Goes End-To-End

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written several times in the past about Acumatica – the little ERP vendor who could. First to roll out on Azure, one of the first to embrace a dual on-prem/cloud strategy and one of the few to buck the direct sales channel, Acumatica have a history of doing things

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July 28, 2010 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Acumatica, the Three Year Price Guarantee and Some Happy Channel Partners

By Ben Kepes

Acumatica (more on them here) is something of a battler. A small ERP vendor, selling a cloud product (that is also, or can also be, an on-premise product) that’s up against big names whichever direction it goes – NetSuite from the cloud angle and SAP from the on-premise direction. Despite

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July 22, 2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Xero Annual Report – Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

At the Xero AGM today both CEO Rod Drury and Chairman Phil Norman addressed the audience and gave  roundup of annual performance. Some quick points to note: Customer count now over 22000 (see graph below). Note the steepness of the growth curve has flattened somewhat – it’s still heading in

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February 23, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SaaS Implementation. A Case Study and a Call for a Deeper Needs Analysis…

By Ben Kepes

I spend a lot of time hand waving about the joys of SaaS accounting, I thought it’d be an idea to write some stories of successful implementations – kind of a case-study-lite type series. If you’re a vendor with a story to tell (or even better and end user with

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November 18, 2009 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Microsoft Flicks the Switch on Azure, Acumatica Standing By

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference the switch will finally be flicked on Microsoft’s long awaited cloud computing offering Azure. Of course spinning up an infrastructure offering is one thing, having products and services to run on it is another – and this is where my accounting/ERP interest dovetails

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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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