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OAccounts – is it feasible?

March 16, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Purely by chance I came across this thoughtful piece by Martin Kleppmann, proposing the idea of an open standard for the interchange of data between accoutning applications. He’s gone as far as to start outlining what he terms OAccounts might look like. Martin’s thesis is based on: OAccounts uses the OASIS UBL open standard for [...]

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How many number 1's are there?

March 13, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

e-conomic has just announced its results. It starts: 13th March 2009: e-conomic, the leading European provider of online accounting, announces today its 2008 financial results, revealing revenues in excess of £3.8million for the year to the end of December. Yesterday I talked about WinWeb but without claiming no.1 status: Stefan Topfer claims revenue of £5 [...]

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Tactile and FreshBooks: another mashup

March 10, 2009 General

Tactile CRM + FreshBooks from Jake Stride on Vimeo. Announced on the FreshBooks blog: Tactile CRM has integrated with FreshBooks. For those who aren’t yet using a customer relationship management (CRM) tool, this may be a good excuse to start. You’ll be able to stay on top of your sales by recording every deal, email, [...]

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Freshbooks and Shoeboxed: accounting mashup

March 3, 2009 Featured

Freshbooks today announced that it has struck a deal with Shoeboxed which will see Shoeboxed receipt scanning and categorization service added into the growing Freshbooks stable of integrations. Shoeboxed, has a tie in with Outright, the latest book-keeping service to make a splash, with which Freshbooks also recently partnered. The pitch is that Shoeboxed will [...]

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Outright: interesting

February 18, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Since I rarely read TechCrunch these days I missed the announcement last week that Outright, a US based book-keeping and tax service obtained $2 million in funding and rebranded itself from GoBootstrap.com. Given the company has no announced business model, is in beta and is not charging during the beta period I am both surprised [...]

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Kashflow hits 2,500: so what?

January 29, 2009 General

Amid much chest beating, Kashflow’s Duane Jackson announces the company has hit 2,500 paying customers. To be strictly correct, the company claims 2,400 end users and 120 practices. Good for them. But then I looked back. Kashflow was formed in early 2006 although it launched the product in mid-2005. Trawling back over past posts, I [...]

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Xero hits 2,000 customers

August 21, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

While the naysayers still insist that saas adoption is a long way off, it’s great to see Xero has hit the 2,000 customer mark. According to Rod Drury on its blog: It took 18 months of very hard work to get our first 1000 customers starting way back with pre-release versions of Xero back in [...]

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