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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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SAP Business ByDesign 2.5: time to invest?

August 3, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Yesterday SAP announced the general availability of SAP Business ByDesign 2.5. In real world language that means it is there for anyone to check out and buy rather than what has been happening: a controlled release to achieve a baseline of 100 customers. Along with the release came confirmation that SAP is offering starter packs [...]

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Sexy SAP? Surely not!!

July 28, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I get a regular stream of people telling me they are looking for a SaaS/cloud upgrade to Sage Line 50. They’re ready to move on and don’t see the remainder of the Sage line of products as particularly appealing. They’ve usually found out something about this ‘cloud stuff’ and are curious to know more. This [...]

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So you want to be a saas consultant?

July 12, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Read on… This is really a follow up post to the one I did last week re: NetSuite and upon which Wayne Schultz commented: Where do typical consulting firms make money consulting on Netsuite or any SaaS. The main answer that I seem to hear from the early firms that are in this space providing [...]

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Is SAP Business ByDesign affordable and would you choose it anyway?

May 24, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

SAP has a reputation for being expensive. Even at $149/user/month for a minimum of 25 users Business ByDesign still weighs in at $44,700 per annum or £30,900 (give or take) at today’s exchange rate. That still sounds like a lot until you hear that SAP is prepared to go down to 10 users. At this [...]

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SAP Business ByDesign limps into general availiability

May 18, 2010 Marketing

After what seems an eternity in the gestation, SAP has released Business ByDesign, its cloud ERP offering, into general availability. First launched in late 2007, BYD has gone through a number of iterations as first the company discovered the way it had been designed was not capable of scaling economically. Subsequently, SAP found that the [...]

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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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A conversation with Paul Walker: CEO Sage

January 22, 2010 Featured

At the Paris launch of Sage X3 v.6, I had the opportunity to meet with Paul Walker, CEO Sage. It was our first time of meeting. In attendance were Christophe Letellier, GM Sage ERP X3 worldwide and Stuart Lynn, head of Sage mid-market R&D. I didn’t take the formal Q&A route but rather wanted to [...]

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Rigidity in your accounting is killing the business

December 17, 2009 Featured

I’ve just seen an IDC report sponsored by Agresso (registration required) entitled: Modifying and Maintaining ERP Systems: The High Cost of Business Disruption. It makes startling reading. Anyone engaged in accounting needs to read this carefully as part of their festive season education. It will make sobering reading. Before I go on, I should add [...]

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