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First ScotRail: 54 days and counting. Shame on you

February 5, 2010 General

Regular readers will know that occasionally I talk about travel woes. International flight travel has become the equivalent of attending for an anal probe, domestic UK travel isn’t much better. But when you can’t get a refund and the scripted responses are bland and uninformative then what do you do? Why take a leaf out [...]

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What if your reseller went away?

February 4, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Reseller issues are an emerging topic for SaaS vendors. That means it should also be a topic for buyers. For years, buyers haven’t needed to give a second thought as to whether their software reseller will be around. Despite some consolidation, it has been a case of business as usual. SaaS disrupts that market in [...]

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SaaS accounting market 2010

January 31, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last week, Alan Wright of Liberty Accounts was kind enough to drop a list of saas applications/providers onto AccountingWeb. It’s something I’ve been meaning to get around to doing for some time. I took the opportunity to review Alan’s list and update it for services I’ve found that he’d not listed, clear out dead links [...]

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On PWC – does everyone in Chicago hate them?

June 16, 2009 Tax and Ethics

Francine is not slow to take a swipe at PWC. Now through the marvel of Google Alerts I find that a CPA in Texas is even more errr…provocative. Both come from Chicago. Is there something they put in the water to make them feisty? Check this from Skeptical CPA on PWC and Satyam: At best [...]

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SaaS vendor viability: Xero under the spotlight

June 2, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I don’t usually talk about vendor viability in any depth on this blog because the information I have on vendors is often proprietary. However it is an important topic and one that has come up in discussions with professionals considering alternatives to Sage’s (near) monopoly. Enter Xero. Ben Kepes has riffed on a technical investment [...]

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Xero hits 2,000 customers

August 21, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

While the naysayers still insist that saas adoption is a long way off, it’s great to see Xero has hit the 2,000 customer mark. According to Rod Drury on its blog: It took 18 months of very hard work to get our first 1000 customers starting way back with pre-release versions of Xero back in [...]

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