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Software Satisfaction Awards 2010: dead cat bounce or a kludge?

October 8, 2010 General
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Awards ceremonies or rather very-expensive-dinners-and-booze-ups-with-star-turn-plus-some-gongs-thrown-in events are weird affairs. Vendors pony up to a media outfit in the vain hope they’ll walk away with a gong. Why do they do it? One answer might be that software vendor types don’t get out very often. At least that’s what one vendor quipped. Well, if that’s the [...]

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eBIS-XML v SUBL: it's a stupid discussion

October 7, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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I’m not going to get all techie here so don’t worry. Instead I am going to address the elephant in the room when it comes to standards. It seems I sparked off something of a debate among the vendors with my SUBL post. That was to be expected. In the one corner we have Xero, [...]

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IRIS World 2010: report 1

October 6, 2010 Innovation
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Yesterday I attended IRISWorld 2010 along with a cast of some 500 accountants. I bumped into my old sparring partner John Stokdyk who looked incredibly dapper (suit AND tie, I failed on the tie) as we joined the other suited great and good at IRIS’s London leg of its user conference tour. There was much [...]

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KashFlow's Orbit: a work in progress

September 16, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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When I first started this weblog, one of the things I wanted to see was a portal that integrated client information at multiple levels along with collaborative working, the ability to fuse tax information and final accounts preparation plus a document repository into a single repository. Earlier today (US time – I’m in the Bay [...]

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Why Sage will continue to lose momentum

September 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Over the weekend I’ve been reading extracts from Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd. It is one of the very few business books I am definitely buying.  Youngme Moon makes a stack of observations that resonate with me. If you’ve seen my Tweetstream from Sunday afternoon then you’ll know what I mean. Here’s a sampling of [...]

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Lessons from ClearBooks failure

September 1, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Earlier today I learned that ClearBooks had ‘unexpected downtime.’ Whenever you see that phrase you should substitute: ‘total cock up.’ To its credit, ClearBooks tried to communicate the issue on GetSatisfaction but in doing so exposed fundamental weaknesses of which buyers should be aware. From the GS trail: We are currently experiencing a problem with [...]

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And so it came to pass…

July 23, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

According to AccountingWeb referring to the Software Satisfaction Awards for 2010 says: The awards have also done away with the distinction between on-premise and web-based “Cloud” applications. As with last year, the SME Accounting category has become a fight between the leading lights of the accounting software as a service industry – FreeAgent Central, KashFlow [...]

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Google apps integration

July 16, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I missed this a few weeks ago but it seems FreeAgent has done a Google Apps integration in the sense that you can use Google Apps as a way of single sign-on to FreeAgent. Trivial? Maybe. How many of you sign into a variety of online accounts? I’m betting just about everyone. One of the [...]

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A chance meeting with Ed Molyneux, CEO FreeAgent

July 2, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

While I was attending the Cloud Computing World Forum I unexpectedly bumped into Ed Molyneux, CEO of FreeAgent. I can’t remember the last time we met so it was a pleasant and welcome surprise. As has become usual when I meet CEO’s of the new breed of SaaS accounting solution vendors, we swap notes, exchange [...]

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