KashFlow

KashFlow doubles up, Twinfield blows past 100K users

November 25, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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This week I have been traveling in the UK. Yesterday I met with Duane Jackson, CEO KashFlow, RIchard Anning, who runs the ICAEW IT Faculty and André Kwakernaat, co-founder Twinfield. I was delivering the Gapingvoid ‘Awesome’ prints for Duane and Richard which they both agree make great talking points. It was also an opportunity for [...]

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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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Vendors rant at ICAEW. Now get over yourselves

September 27, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Here’s one for the books: Richard Messik was clearly annoyed at the content from last week’s ICAEW cloud computing conference: My heart sank when I saw the agenda. @richard: that agenda has been in the pubic domain for months. If it wasn’t to your taste then why not say something at the time or if [...]

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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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Sage evasive about SaaS offering

September 8, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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The other day, the Twitterverse started humming about Sage allegedly touting a SaaS accounting solution priced at £9.99/month to sit alongside SagePay. It had to be Duane Jackson, CEO KashFlow and self appointed Sage baiter. Sage’s move sort of makes sense given the potential value in payment processing solutions for small business. I’d not heard [...]

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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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Kashflow tinkers with the user interface: an exclusive peek

August 31, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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I’ve known for some time that Kashflow is refactoring its user interface. Both Duane Jackson, CEO Kashflow and I agree that in its current iteration it is out of date and by making changes, he hopes this will encourage more people to come on board. User interfaces are always the subject of much angst among [...]

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