According to AccountingWeb referring to the Software Satisfaction Awards for 2010 says:
The awards have also done away with the distinction between on-premise and web-based “Cloud” applications. As with last year, the SME Accounting category has become a fight between the leading lights of the accounting software as a service industry – FreeAgent Central, KashFlow and Xero. Accountz and Benchmark Software, two relative minnows compared to the likes of Sage and Intuit, will contest the category on behalf of the desktop software.
There are so many ways to parse this. Here’s a few:
- The SSA are in many ways a popularity contest and we all know they can be gamed. AW dismisses such accusations with a tut-tut but I know a thing or two about how the contestants rally their troops..err…customers…to vote in these affairs.
- Can we now all agree that at least as far as this competition implies, SaaS/cloud has ousted desktop software as representing the mainstream? Side note: John Stokdyk was right back in 2005 when he was arguing with me about this. It did take 5 years. One up for John.
- RIP Sage/Intuit? Nah…but it is fascinating that in a week when Sage appoints Le Boss, Sage no longer appears in the SME category.
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