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SAP Business ByDesign: a developer take

October 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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If you are a potential SAP customer, partner or developer then this post should be of interest. It is a tad technical but I will try and avoid too much jargon in order to make the points clear. That shouldn’t be overly difficult because while I can write code, I would not class myself as [...]

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Best of breed or best of suites? The transformational argument

August 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Rod Drury dropped a bomb into the Xero blog on that perennial of topics: best of breed or best of suites? I am surprised that it has reared its head so relatively early in the SaaS development lifecycle. As Rod says: The incumbent desktop products that have been around for many years have added many [...]

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Where will those next gen clients come from?

July 27, 2010 Innovation

Adrian Pearson pinged me yesterday asking if I have any data points into UK attitudes towards the profession following this piece from Rick Telberg where he quotes: “If we think the pipeline for future professionals is small, the pool of future clients is miniscule,” says Jim Boomer of Boomer consulting. “Just as the next generation of [...]

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Change the world or go home

July 24, 2010 Innovation

Mark Lee recently launched a scathing attack on generic emails sent out by professionals. Why am I not surprised? I’ve been saying much the same about template driven websites. Firms feel they must have something but rarely go to the trouble of making their efforts unique or interesting. Here’s one crappy example. Here’s one that’s [...]

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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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Kashflow and Absolute Accounting hook up

June 8, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Kashflow and Absolute Accounting have partnered in a move that sees Absolute integrate Kashflow data into its accounts preparation package. This is a first step towards iXBRL filing and provides a semi-automated way for Kashflow data to be pulled into a third party system. “It’s really a couple of clicks to produce accounts,” said Duane [...]

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How do you innovate?

January 19, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Stuart Lynn, head of R&D, Sage mid-market division pinged me to say he’d written a piece about innovation in part inspired by one of my YouTube videos. Stuart took an interpretation of that video content with which I don’t wholly agree but that’s of little consequence. If you’re interested, then check out the video which [...]

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Make me love you and you will be rewarded

September 30, 2009 Marketing

John O’Nolan commented on the story I wrote about his experience with accountants summed up in a Tweet. The comment contains so many gems from which professionals can draw lessons that it is well worth putting out as a post in its own right with my comments interspersed: Hi Dennis, thanks so much for this [...]

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FreeAgent Central takes the crunch pulse: startling results

July 16, 2009 Innovation

FreeAgent Central has published the results of a survey it conducted among users and others to assess the impact of the credit crunch in its target customer group. They achieved 535 responses, a healthy number and one that should lend statistical credibility to the findings.  FreeAgent concludes: They conclude: It’s of course inadvisable to draw [...]

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