computing

The case for cloud accounting

July 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last week, Jeremy Roche, CEO FinancialForce presented at the Cloud Computing World Forum, making the case for cloud accounting. This 2min 1 sec video neatly encapsulates why this is something you should be considering, especially if you are operating electronic CRM or e-commerce for front of house activities. When talking about cloud computing, the first [...]

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More cloud accounting benefits

July 1, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

It is becoming increasingly obvious that clouding computing benefits as they apply to the accounting arena stretch way beyond the ability to save time, effort and cost. As I meet with more customers, I am discovering benefits that only customers can express. In the above video, Gary White, CEO of White Springs, a sales enablement company [...]

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Brightbook will fail because it is free

March 22, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Brightbook is going to fail – at least in its current iteration. The model is fundamentally flawed. The other day I said that Brightbook approached me but that I had no desire to take a peek. Over the weekend I saw that AccountingWeb has spoken to the founders.  They got an answer to the all important [...]

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How SaaS makes free a good option

March 17, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The notion of free doesn’t always sit well with many colleagues. If there is no monetary sale price then the theory runs that there is less value to be had than from levying a monetary charge. But is that true? One argument in favour of SaaS is that the buyer doesn’t have it make an [...]

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Google Apps Marketplace: ready for prime time?

March 11, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Is Google Apps Marketplace ready for prime time or is this another example of Google’s perennial beta program? Google Apps Marketplace opened yesterday to great fanfare. At one point I was receiving around 10 emails an hour informing me of new services being added into the platform. Naturally, the first place I looked was in [...]

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RightNow's CSA – a game changer?

March 9, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

RightNow’s CSA announcement from last week could be a game changer for SaaS and on-premise providers alike. The above video sets out my thinking behind last week’s Customer Service Agreement (CSA) announcement by the company. At the time, I wrote a short analysis over at ZDNet. The above video is a presentation put into the [...]

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Pearl sticks its claws into IRIS

March 4, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Pearl has developed an integration to IRIS. It had to happen and it is an important landmark. I’ve long felt that the battleground among SaaS accounting providers will be fought on two fronts: directly with customers, which is already happening, and by the extent to which the providers can either give the professional what they [...]

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Getting off premise and Salesforce.com naivety

March 2, 2010 General

Getting off premise from on premise (excuse the mangled English) is not trivial for many businesses. But to hear Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, that’s exactly what you might believe. It is a naive position to take worthy of being debunked. In a post on Business Cloud 9, the author says: “We have a UK [...]

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Who's winning in the SaaS accounting stakes?

March 1, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Can we discern winners in the SaaS accounting stakes or is it too early? Unpacking web analytics data can help. Taking a leaf out of CloudAve’s book, but perhaps not being as artistic, I ran a DoubleClick AdPlanner analysis for some of the better known names in the SaaS accounting market and threw in a [...]

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