April 2007

Attention starved Oracle

April 30, 2007 General

Apparently I’m now a ‘drama critic.’ But then when I read stuff like this from Andy C… I donâ€™t know enough about what Oracleâ€™s rivals (IBM, Sun, HP, SAP, Siebel) are doing out there in the blogging community or how these companies are perceived by the Web 2.0 community to know whether Oracle is hard [...]

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London Geek Girls – the movie

April 30, 2007 General

This is very annoying but for reasons unknown, I can’t embed the Viddler video made at last week’s London Geek Girl event. The Viddler video is instructive because it has different markers so you can easily choose which part of the 55 minute long film upon which you want to focus attention. First up is [...]

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IRIS up for sale

April 30, 2007 General

This from TimesOnline Business Digest THE biggest provider of accountancy software, Iris, has been put up for sale with an estimated Â£250m price tag by its private-equity owners HG Capital and LDC, part of Lloyds TSB. All completely contrary to what I was told just a matter of 12 days ago. Assuming The Times has [...]

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What's missing from Sage 50 Accounts Professional Online 2007? Just about everything useful

April 30, 2007 General

Assuming you’re willing to become a Sage Accountants’ Club member (and fork over the price of admission) in anticipation of using Sage’s shiny new Sage 50 Accounts Professional Online 2007 edition, this is what you’ll find: Summary of functionality not yet available Integration with other Sage products for example, Payroll, Job Costing, Sage Financial Forecasting [...]

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Flashing open the A1S kimono

April 30, 2007 General

A fascinating conversation is underway among some of my colleagues following the SAPPHIRE07 blog fest. A recurrent theme has been the absence of actually ‘seeing’ A1S, the service SAP believes will spearhead its drive to accelerate customer growth from its current tally of some 40,000 customers to around 100,000 by 2010. I, along with others [...]

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On-demand adoption taking off

April 30, 2007 General

Phil Wainewright reports on research by Saugatuck: Europe poised for breakout. The proportion of European companies planning to adopt SaaS has doubled this year to 34%, catching up fast on North America’s 46% adoption rate. That’s in line with UK research I know about which suggests somewhere between 35-42% of professionals are actively looking at [...]

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Thank you for visiting

April 30, 2007 Asides

This QuickBooks Online Edition blog is no longer active. Please visit the Online Edition forum on the QuickBooks Community Website. That didn’t last long. Technorati tags: quickbooks, intuit

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David Terrar on Channel 4

April 28, 2007 Asides

You can see his lips move but there’s a voiceover. The clip is a mashup of 2 events which makes the report confusing. Mark Cunningham is royally pissed.

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