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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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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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Get aggressive

August 5, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Earlier this evening I took a call from my good friend Vinnie. We swapped notes about this and that and I asked him how he made out at a gig he did for appirio. You can see the full blog post here. By the way, appirio is a great company that specializes in onboarding Salesforce.com [...]

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Another race to the bottom?

June 24, 2009 Marketing

Tom Foremski has written a thought provoking piece talking about how the internet has ‘devalued everything.’ One of the more stark examples he offers is Craigslist: Take a look at the classified ads business. The Pew Center reports that in 2000 this was a $19.6 billion a year business. In 2008 it had fallen to [...]

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FreeAgent raises angel round

March 23, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Image via CrunchBase Times may be tough but FreeAgentCentral has raised an angel round that values the company at a tidy sum. As a former shareholder I’ve known about this for quite some period as Ed needed to speak with me as he closed out the deal. Although I am no longer associated with the [...]

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Saas downside: the real problem

March 19, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In my last post I gently ribbed a colleague suggesting he’d asked the wrong question about saas.  This is the real problem. Despite all the frequent updates, invention, new business models and the like, software sometimes doesn’t do what people want it to. Or it does too much. Or it has something missing that people [...]

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On-demand features keep coming

March 11, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The last few days have seen a raft of announcements and innovations in the on-demand accounting world. The pace shows no signs of letting up. This morning alone: Aqilla received a seed round of funding, said to be in the £300,000 range. The funding comes from Bob Morton, chartered accountant and currently chairman of Armour [...]

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