Tag Archives: FinancialForce.com

March 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Financial Systems for the Mid Market – Intacct and Alternative Approaches to Consolidation

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written many times in the past about the relative dearth of vendors providing cloud accounting solutions to the mid-market – as NetSuite continues to move up the food chain and focuses on larger enterprises it only leaves players like FinancialForce and Intacct to focus on the mid-market One differentiating

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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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May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Zuora Partners With a Host of Mid Market Financial Vendors

By Ben Kepes

In my extensive writing around the subscription billing space, I have often noted that it is a very polarized sector of our industry with a handful of well funded companies providing services for large organizations – Zuora, Vindicia and Aria fit in this space. These companies are maneuvering for position

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September 1, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday

By Ben Kepes

Update – Both Infor and Concur have similar deals announcing today as well – details to come Update #2 – I spent time with Workday during the event to get a deeper understanding of what the force.com part of this deal actually means. Essentially Workday will use force.com for customers

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March 14, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FinancialForce and Service Resource Planning

By Ben Kepes

When FinancialForce announced the acquisition a few months ago of the Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution created by Appirio – it seemed an obvious fit. FinancialForce is the financial solution of choice on the force.com platform, while a huge number of service professionals utilize the salesforce application itself. Tying all

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December 22, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

FinancialForce–Educating the Market and Customer Stories

By Ben Kepes

As part of the recent DreamForce conference. FinancialForce decided to take a novel approach towards educating the marketplace and used the approach taken by Eliyahu Goldratt in his management book The Goal. FinancialForce commissioned a book called The Deal which, in the form of a novella, articulates the value of

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December 10, 2010 Posted in Business 14 Comments

SAP, Salesforce and the Velocity of Change

By Ben Kepes

This week has been an intense one for me in the Bay area. After a vibrant few days at DreamForce, the extravaganza that is the annual salesforce.com conference, I joined a select group of bloggers and analysts for a more reflective influencers briefing day yesterday in Santa Clara. I wanted

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December 7, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FinancialForce Acquires Appirio PSA

By Ben Kepes

I’ve covered professional services automation (PSA) software previously – NetSuite created some news awhile back when they acquired OpenAir sold it as a module to their ERP offering. This morning FinancialForce is announcing that they have acquired the PSA solution originally developed by Appirio. FinancialForce says that it is making

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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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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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