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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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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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This stuff sells itself

April 16, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Reading AppExchange endorsements for FinancialForce customers: Live Out Loud (LOL) looked at implementing an accounting solution built on the force.com platform as a “no-brainer.” The opportunity to get the financial side of the business married to the marketing and sales side – and soon the delivery and production areas – in one system with the [...]

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Telegraph Media Group webinar report

February 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Yesterday’s saas/cloud customer focused webinar which featured the Telegraph Media Group was all that I had hoped for and then some. There was a solid attendance and the quality of questions coming in was excellent. We ran over time by 15 minutes largely due to the Q&A. That’s always a good sign. I understand the [...]

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Benefits of cloud accounting

November 19, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

We often hear about how the SMB SaaS/cloud accounting vendors are driving value for the very small ‘mom and pop’ shops. Now we’re starting to hear from early adopters of more ‘grown up’ solutions. In this short video, Sallie Kennedy, CFO at The Compliance Team Inc describes a couple of hard benefits including a 9% [...]

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