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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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August 30, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – the accounting space is an area I follow closely and one in which I have spent time consulting with a host of different vendors. Full details on my disclosure page but suffice it to say I have consulted to a number of companies covered in this post –

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June 14, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Intuit Drops the Partner Platform–Retreats from a Federated Ecosystem Approach

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written at length about the Intuit Partner Platform – it seemed to me the best approach by a traditional accounting vendor to provide a compelling offering in an increasingly SaaS-based world. the IPP allowed third organizations to use third party SaaS applications alongside their core QuickBooks data, all the

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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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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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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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September 9, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Salesforce for Quickbooks for Salesforce for Quickbooks….

By Ben Kepes

Owning and running a bunch of small businesses, I have a real appreciation for just how important it is for SMBs to have a handle on their customers and deal flow – CRM, a concept foreign to many SMBs only a few years ago has become, with the growing importance

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August 11, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Intuit Moves up the Stack for IPP – Drops Native Platform

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been following Intuit’s moves to become a relevant Cloud player for many years now, and was one of the first people to write about the Intuit Partner Platform when it launched almost three years ago. The Internet Partner Platform was created in order to enable applications to be created

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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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