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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 Both Duane Jackson, CEO Kashflow and I agree that in its current iteration it is out of date and by making changes, he hopes this will encourage more people to come on board.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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Sage gets something almost right at last

September 30, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

After years of taking a pounding on AccMan I am DELIGHTED to report I’ve found something Sage is doing that is in the right ball park. Still with me? Following all the FreeAgent love I’ve been spraying around today, Manoj Ranaweera asked on Twitter: Has anyone tried http://bit.ly/4bGSLF from #Sage? Sounds like a competitor to [...]

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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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Pearl goes free with new Express service

March 16, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

PearlSoftware is launching a new Express version with free pricing. The full version is more like an ERP solution for SMBs so the pricing matrix can appear complex. For the free version, see pricing panel screenshot below: Free gets you a limited but customizable CRM cum sales application that integrates some email and calendaring functionality. [...]

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SageLive: interesting

December 2, 2008 General

Duane over at Kashflow pulled the old ‘conference spying’ trick and reckons that Sage is preparing to launch SageLive, an on-demand offering possibly as early as January 8rh, 2009. If it does, then as Ben Kepes at CloudAve says: We’ve been waiting for a really compelling on-demand accounting offering from one of the big boys… [...]

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Scottish economy 'grinding to a halt'

September 25, 2008 General

A bleak report (PDF download) from Prof. Donald JR MacRae of Lloyds TSB Scotland paints a depressing picture of the Scottish economy. I was surprised by the graphic above which suggests only 65% of Scottish service industry businesses have web sites. In this day and age? How do they expect to do business? Even more [...]

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