Tag Archives: Xero

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 15, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Rumors Suggest Xero to Announce Acquisitions at Xerocon

By Ben Kepes

Update 2 – Well, it seems I was right – as I predicted Xero did not acquire Vend and did acquire a practice management vendors (Spotlight Workpapers whom I referred to in a previous post). This gives Xero a more credible practice management suite and should stand them in good

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May 3, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

By Ben Kepes

Big news in the SaaS accounting space this morning as FreeAgent announces that it has acquired US accounting provider 60mo and will be using the company as its vehicle for a US expansion. 60mo is a small SaaS provider that has quietly been going about building a small following for

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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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April 4, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Responding to Competition–In the Cloud World–It’s All About Raising the Tide

By Ben Kepes

I’m involved in a bunch of different cloud startups – either as a founder, an investor or an adviser. Many of these startups are actively working on disrupting more traditional incumbent players, while many face competition from other entrants in the space. A recent blog post from Neil Ballard was

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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 26, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?

By Ben Kepes

Recently KashFlow CEO Duane Jackson made the decision to reduce the trial periods offered on his product from 60 days down to 14. In blogging about this change, Jackson explained the decision saying; We analysed our trial data and found that the vast majority of people who never converted from

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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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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 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

It’s All About Sharing–Xero Delivers A Community Hub

By Ben Kepes

One of the things I’ve learned over the nearly 20 years that I’ve been in business is just how valuable the peer network is to businesses. This understanding was part of the rationale for introducing the CloudU program and in particular the LinkedIn community – it’s a chance for people

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