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Would you go to bed on a first date?

November 11, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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I make no apology for stealing this line from a LinkedIn discussion I saw going on around a Sage reseller that’s pimping discounts via a newlsetter invitation: …based on the content of the first issue I receive, they assume I’m shopping for product and looking for a discount. When in reality, I’m in the early stages [...]

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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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NetSuite bullish after beating Q2 estimates

August 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

When I met with NetSuite in London the other week, I heard Zach Nelson, the company’s CEO, imply revenue approaching $200 million in the current fiscal year. At the time, the company could not comment officially as it was in the ‘quiet period.’ Yesterday’s earnings call (replay available) and results announcement suggest the company is on [...]

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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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Sexy SAP? Surely not!!

July 28, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I get a regular stream of people telling me they are looking for a SaaS/cloud upgrade to Sage Line 50. They’re ready to move on and don’t see the remainder of the Sage line of products as particularly appealing. They’ve usually found out something about this ‘cloud stuff’ and are curious to know more. This [...]

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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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So you want to be a saas consultant?

July 12, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Read on… This is really a follow up post to the one I did last week re: NetSuite and upon which Wayne Schultz commented: Where do typical consulting firms make money consulting on Netsuite or any SaaS. The main answer that I seem to hear from the early firms that are in this space providing [...]

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Is ICAEW failing?

June 10, 2010 Innovation

A couple of days ago I was pinged on Twitter: @dahowlett you should talk to @cheapaccounting about this worthy campaign – http://bit.ly/ca7Cth The worthy campaign in question is What Is An Accountant? that CheapAccounting (what an awful name?) is running. My response was that this is where IACEW/ACCA/CIMA and others fit in. I don’t want [...]

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Facebook privacy issues. Where to for professionals?

May 24, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Having been buried in enterprise land the last couple of weeks, I’ve not been taking notice of the gathering storm around Facebook privacy. The last time I wrote about it, I said: Facebook’s increasingly bizarre notion of privacy coupled with the most recent security breach are forcing a number of my colleagues to rethink their [...]

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