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SaaS benefits part 436

September 22, 2010 Innovation
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The other day Phil Wainewright declared: I’ve set myself a new task of going out and evangelizing to business people why they should adopt cloud computing and services. It’s not simply about cloud computing being faster, cheaper, better than conventional platforms. More than all of that, cloud computing, when it’s done right, frees businesses to [...]

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FinancialForce gets jiggy with iPad

September 21, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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I’ve been hearing that development for the iPad is relatively easy. Here’s proof. FinancialForce.com today announced a win with Life Champions. From the blurbs: Life Champions is a specialist membership management organisation working on behalf of local and international charities and not-for-profit membership organisations to offer incentives to existing members and to encourage new ones. [...]

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SaaS switching – should we care?

August 18, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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FinancialForce.com ($$ client) today announced that it has bagged a NetSuite customer. Nice for them. The reasons given in the press release were sensible enough: “We were previously using NetSuite but found that we struggled to reliably maintain all our integrations to marketplaces,” said Ben VanderBeek, Executive Director of IT, myGearStore. “We deal with a [...]

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Intacct joins NetSuite and Appirio in the project management space

August 11, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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As a major part of its Summer 2010 release, Intacct has announced the general availability of project accounting. At a cost of $350 per month plus additional per user pricing that depends on functional needs, pricing is broadly in line with what NetSuite is offering via its OpenAir solution. On the face of it, project [...]

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Multi-currency war report

January 22, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Re-purposing Kilgore’s famous soliloquy to Willard from Apocolypse Now, I love the smell of a vendor slugfest on an otherwise quiet Friday afternoon. And so it is. Earlier in the week on FinancialForce.com, Dave Turner seems to have set off a veritable firestorm from some of the SaaS players. Knowing Dave as well as I [...]

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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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