Consolidation leads to a new load of dopeyness
April 10, 2008
Consolidation among the accounts production software providers sparked off the latest load of dopey thinking over at AccountingWEB about where the market is going.
Some practitioners seem to think the world of saas isn’t happening, presenting all kinds of outdated and ill-informed arguments. Nicholas Myles lobbed the old ‘reliability’ chestnut in my direction. <sigh>
What I find truly disturbing is not the argument but the failure to understand just how much the world is changing around practitioners. Last week in a separate conversation, one partner said that he was alarmed at the way consultants are setting up shop doing the kind of advisory business that should be the natural hunting ground for CAs.
I’ve said it before: staring at the train’s headlights isn’t going to stop it becoming a wreck. The profession desperately needs an injection of fresh DNA if it is not to suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. Right now, it doesn’t seem to have much appetite for change. Too bad.
As a closer I’d like to mention that CODA will be launching an on-demand offering in early May. I’m getting a heads up later this month and will let readers know what I think.
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