Tag Archives: SaaSu

January 7, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Saasu Drops Freemium–Some Users Balk at the Change

By Ben Kepes

On New Years Eve, while on a holiday skiing trip in the French Alps, expat Aussie and Clouderati ringleader Sam Johnston wrote a series of tweets exclaiming his anger about a change that cloud accounting vendor Saasu had made to its terms and conditions. earlier this year, a Saasu blog

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March 12, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Acclipse Rolls Out Client Side Application (Again)

By Ben Kepes

[Update - it turns out Acclipse have purchased an existing product with some 5 years development and the partnership with BankLink is for the bank feed part of the deal. I'll try and get my hands on the client side application to review] Acclipse is a New Zealand based accounting

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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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December 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating. In the report we advised organizations to look at applications that; • Have significant interaction with external applications or services • Are

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October 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Flawed Analysis–On Clouds “Playing Nice”

By Ben Kepes

The other day someone alerted me to a new report put out by IT news that lauds itself as a “technical study of the integration and extension options offered by the largest 20 software-as-a-service vendors serving the Australian enterprise.” The report looks at a few different dimensions including; Can I

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August 22, 2011 Posted in Business 8 Comments

On the Sale of MYOB Again. Bain’s Strategy–Acquisition of Australasian Cloud Players?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been commenting over the past week or so about the long saga around the sale of Australasian accounting vendor MYOB. At the same time other vendors have taken the opportunity to suggest what they believe is happening – in part relating to the situation in terms of traditional private

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March 25, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

On SaaS Pricing, Functionality and Risk Aversion

By Ben Kepes

Lots of SaaS accounting news at the moment – from Saasu, Xero and MYOB. Firstly Australian SaaS accounting vendor Saasu (more on them here) recently announced a change to its pricing. Already one of the most economically priced offerings in the marketplace (and I use those words purposely to differentiate

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November 24, 2010 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Downwards Price Pressure, Saasu Drops Prices but is Zero the New Destination?

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – I’ve worked with a number of different accounting software vendors, for full information see my disclosure page. In any industry where large numbers of sellers exist, economics force prices downwards – it’s an undeniable economic fact that many a high school student has heard in the context of

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October 29, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

DataGroup Eases the SaaS Barrier to Adoption

By Ben Kepes

One of the barriers to more widespread adoption of SaaS accounting applications is the high degree to which accounting applications are “sticky”. In other words, the high level of workflow that gets built into application use over time, combined with the difficulty of migrating from one application to another, created

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October 7, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Saasu Connects to TradeMe – Welcome to my Future

By Ben Kepes

Here in new Zealand, TradeMe constitutes an inordinate percentage of total internet time and traffic. Ebay may be huge in the US or elsewhere, but it’s not exaggerating to say that TradeMe created the inflection point of internet adoption in New Zealand. The number of people running businesses completely or

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