Tag Archives: MYOB

April 10, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Wave Takes on the Scanned Receipts Market

By Ben Kepes

Anyone who thinks small business have simple requirements in terms of software has never worked within an SMB. SMBs requirements are often just as complex as those of enterprise but they don’t have the resourcing that larger organizations do – a double whammy that puts them at a distinct disadvantage.

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July 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

By Ben Kepes

Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique and questioning, Xero’s events instead ring to the sound of hand-clapping

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July 25, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

CCH Powers Up to for Accounting Practices

By Ben Kepes

Cross posting of a guest post I wrote for BoxFreeIT earlier this week Hot on the heels of the CCH acquisition of Acclipse and its practice management and client side accounting solutions, I sat down with CCH CEO Russell Evans to take a deep dive into where the industry is

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July 12, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

CCH Acquires Acclipse Limited–Accounting Vertical Gets Converged

By Ben Kepes

Big news in the accounting space with the announcement that CCH, a division of the international group Wolters Kluwer is acquiring software vendor Acclipse. Acclipse sells practice management software under the iFirm brand, and announced a few months ago the intention to roll out a client side accounting solution. Acclipse

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March 28, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

By Ben Kepes

Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have to provide for multi-currency. n a post discussing this AccMan says

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March 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

LiveMigrate Eases the MYOB to Xero Pathway

By Ben Kepes

I’m involved in a good half a dozen different businesses and do all the bookkeeping/accounting for most of them. Over the past 15 years I’ve got pretty comfortable with the main desktop accounting product in Australia/New Zealand, MYOB. Over the past five years or so I’ve used and reviewed pretty

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February 1, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

By Ben Kepes

Exciting news today from Xero ahead of their user conference tomorrow that spans two important announcements. I’ll cover them individually. $20M Raised from Existing Shareholders Existing shareholders have reinvested to the aggregate tune of $20M. Sam Morgan, Sam Knowles, Craig Winkler and Peter Thiel’s fund Valar Ventures have all taken

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January 3, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

By Ben Kepes

It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its home market of Australia and New Zealand, MYOB is facing 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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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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