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May 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

By Ben Kepes

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple disparate systems and bring sense to them. Business Intelligence is one

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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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October 12, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

TradeGecko–Cloud-Based SMB Inventory Launches

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent  couple of decades dealing with the realities of a small business that sells physical goods. The functional requirements of these businesses are surprisingly broad but alas the budget tends to be small. I was interested then to hear from the founders of TradeGecko, a recently launched SaaS inventory

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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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January 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

By Ben Kepes

Now this is an interesting piece of scuttlebutt that I was alerted to via a private message. It seems that Intuit have quietly begun pushing QuickBooks users who have “outgrown” their own solutions on to Intacct. This is particularly interesting given the fact that Intuit, a venerable provider with a

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December 16, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Application Integration in the Wild–Can Discrete Apps Work for SRP?

By Ben Kepes

Last week I posted news of Intacct’s new SRP offering that ties together Clarizen, Salesforce and Intacct’s own system. It was timely given that only the week before I moderated a panel at CloudBeat that brought together a bunch of folks who think deeply about the application integration space –

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December 6, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Intacct Launches New UI and Rolls Out SRP

By Ben Kepes

I was briefed recently by Dan Druker from Intacct about their Fall 2011 release which marks some significant improvements and expansions to their mid tier accounting solution. As part of the briefing Druker shared with me a competitive landscape diagram that Intacct produces to show where they feel they sit

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November 21, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS Accounting Roundup

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been travelling for the past couple of weeks and haven’t kept up to date with news from the SaaS accounting companies that I usually watch closely. Here’s a summary of stuff that’s happened of late. Quick general disclosure though, I have consulted to a number of the companies below

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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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