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Projecting Xero's annual report

July 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Once again AccMan sponsor Xero put in a solid performance for 2009-2010, closing out the year with revenue of NZ$3.4 million from a final customer count of 17,000. That was up from NZ$1.1 on 6,000 customers in 2009. This was achieved for a final headcount of 90 compared with 56 the previous year. Xero states [...]

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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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Sage's astonishing claims about the SaaS market

May 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

[display_podcast] During Sage’s earnings call, Paul Walker, CEO Sage made some astonishing claims about the saas market as the platform from which he explained Sage’s strategy. In my commentary on the recorded remarks I said: …it demonstrates a horrific lack of market understanding. The previous day at ZDNet I said: I have long held the [...]

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Intuit's IPP will cause a stir but will it shake up the saas world?

June 3, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

It’s all happening with Intuit today. No sooner do we get a saas payroll deal out the way and the company formally launches Internet Partner Platform (IPP.) The first report I saw in this was from Ben Kepes who declares: …it looks to me like IPP is finally offering to fulfil the promise of the [...]

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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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Intuit's customers are revolting

December 15, 2008 General

I’ve always wanted to write that title about some company and on this occasion it is appropriate. My ZDNet colleague Larry Dignan has been cataloguing recent events at the US’s largest accounting software supplier for SMBs. It turns out that even they are not immune from competitive pressure: On Wednesday I detailed how user complaints [...]

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