February 2009

SAP Mentors will crush it for SAP

February 27, 2009 General

…and other examples of how the recession is a time of massive opportunity. I’ve just come off watching a keynote by Garry Vaynerchuk talking about how differentiated content (whether that’s media, products or services) wins in the recession and onwards. It’s a riveting (but NSFW) 13 minutes. I’ve seen Gary talk live and the energy [...]

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Abolition of financial reporting for SMEs: an opportunity

February 26, 2009 General

Alex Bellinger outlines EU proposals that will see the abolition of reporting requirements for SME’s with (2 from 3) turnover of less than €1 million, assets of less than €500K, less than 10 employees.  The idea is to reduce the administrative burden placed upon what the EU calls ‘micro-entities.’ The proposals are not binding on [...]

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Indirect saas marketing that wins

February 25, 2009 Featured

Today’s marketer consensus is that nothing much beats word of mouth (WOM) and personal recommendation. That means connecting with the communities likely to be most relevant to your product. All standard stuff and any number of talking heads can give you the 1,2,3 on that one. Case studies though are few and far between with [...]

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XBRL and the New Four

February 25, 2009 General

If you have any interest at all in reporting then this last week has been a big one for XBRL, the emerging technology that will change the way global reporting is undertaken. I counted 28 pieces on searchTwitter in the last two days alone. However, the most important pieces did not appear in the technical [...]

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Stimulus = porn

February 24, 2009 Featured

There is so much euphemistic, politically correct language floating around these days that sometimes it’s hard to know what people really mean. On Twitter I posed the question: “Am I the only one who, when they hear ‘Stimulus…’ cringe and think of porn? It’s a serious question what with Congress lambasting President Obama’s handling of [...]

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Saugatuck's great expectations for saas in finance

February 24, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Saugatuck is a boutique firm of analysts and consultants whose stated aim is to: accelerate growth through strategic intelligence, filling a gap between high-cost strategy consultants and IT market research firms. I know one of the former partner/directors and the firm has a solid reputation for precision analysis. So when I see an update on [...]

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PaaS risks

February 24, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The demise of Coghead last week raises a number of questions. Aside from the inevitable speculation about what SAP will do with the acquired assets, Phil Wainewright raised the ‘elephant on the room’ question: The problem with PaaS, as Coghead’s customers are now discovering to their dismay, isn’t so much lock-in as lock-out. They knew [...]

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PwC can't win in Ireland

February 23, 2009 General

The much forecast financial meltdown in Ireland has PWC in the commentators gun sights. The Indepenndent bellows: However, not withstanding its findings into the flaws in the bank, it is clear that the PwC report itself is inadequate. Despite its clear importance in shaping the Government’s decision about the banks, the report did not deal [...]

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Twinfield adds XBRL, snags Deloitte

February 23, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Twinfield was the first saas vendor I looked at in any depth but for whatever reason, I’m darned if I can find the in depth review I conducted Here is the review I conducted some three and a half-ish years ago. Since then, Twinfield has progressed steadily and now boasts 29,853 paying customers, most of [...]

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