Accounting

FinancialForce.com acquires Appirio's professional services business

December 7, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Yesterday evening, FinancialForce.com inked a deal which sees them acquiring Appirio‘s professional services solution.  Why does this matter and why should you care? The last year has seen FinancialForce.com make steady progress as a cloud based solution built on Salesforce.com’s Force.com development platform. A steady stream of upgrades has allowed the company to strengthen its [...]

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SAP Business ByDesign: a developer take

October 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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If you are a potential SAP customer, partner or developer then this post should be of interest. It is a tad technical but I will try and avoid too much jargon in order to make the points clear. That shouldn’t be overly difficult because while I can write code, I would not class myself as [...]

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Progressive Practices: Nicholsons delivering benefit via Xero

October 7, 2010 Innovation
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Earlier today I had a conversation with Richard Hallsworth, IT partner with Nicholsons, a 5 partner practice based in Lincoln. Despite it has a significant agricultural client base, the firm is finding that online systems like Xero are helping change the relationship between the firm and its clients. This echoes what Phill Robinson said at [...]

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IRIS World 2010: iPhone, OpenBooks and accounts production integration

October 6, 2010 Innovation
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In this 4 min 48 sec video segment I have assembled the essential parts of the iPhone, OpenBooks and accounts production integration demonstration. I think what this shows above everything is that once the base data has been entered, then everything else becomes automated. The client has their view of their data in OpenBooks while [...]

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Accounting niches

October 1, 2010 Marketing
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Absolute Cytron says this about niche practices: Although this may seem obvious, many accounting firms can’t see the forest through the trees to realize they should focus on what they know instead of what they don’t know. It is this intellectual capital in one or two specific areas that enables a firm to develop a niche practice. [...]

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Sage hikes Accountants' Club fees, shoots self in face

September 29, 2010 General
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While the trend in software is for flat or reduced cost, Sage thinks it can buck the market by increasing Accountant Club fees. From AccountingWeb’s Any Answers: Sage have just increased my accountants club from £645 to £800. What a cheek. They say I am getting lots of extra benefits – but I don’t want [...]

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KashFlow's Orbit: a work in progress

September 16, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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When I first started this weblog, one of the things I wanted to see was a portal that integrated client information at multiple levels along with collaborative working, the ability to fuse tax information and final accounts preparation plus a document repository into a single repository. Earlier today (US time – I’m in the Bay [...]

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Sage evasive about SaaS offering

September 8, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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The other day, the Twitterverse started humming about Sage allegedly touting a SaaS accounting solution priced at £9.99/month to sit alongside SagePay. It had to be Duane Jackson, CEO KashFlow and self appointed Sage baiter. Sage’s move sort of makes sense given the potential value in payment processing solutions for small business. I’d not heard [...]

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inDinero – one to watch

September 2, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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I stumbled across this report at TechCrunch about inDinero in a C round where it hopes to raise $1 million. That’s pretty good for a new vendor in the apps space but reflects the interest in SaaS/cloud apps that are aimed at the very small business (VSB.) Founder Jessica Mah traces here entrepreneurship back 7 years [...]

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