quickbooks

Customers speak, vendors no longer control

March 19, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Customers speaking out represent the most powerful voices. When they complain, the world knows. When they heap praise, the world knows. It’s something over which no-one has control and especially not the vendors. Professionals should take notice because we are starting to see a regular stream of customers saying both good and not so good [...]

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Single ledger erosion of professional accounting software

February 23, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Adrian Pearson, senior partner at a Xero based practice has recently been schmoozed by Hamish Edwards, one of Xero’s co-founders and himself a practitioner. Adrian writes: Most of the talk was about how Xero could help us with the process of converting clients from other systems, such as Sage and QuickBooks but we also discussed [...]

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Parsing Intuit's IPP: much to consider

June 4, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Intuit Partner Platform announcement has had me thinking and today I caught up with Alex Barnett and Alex Chriss from the company to explore what it means and where it might go. Prior to that conversation I spoke with  Ben Kepes and Phil Wainewright to get two very different assessments. Ben thinks it’s the greatest [...]

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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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Intuit's Pay Cycle acquisition starts the SMB saas roll-up game

June 2, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Intuit’s swoop on Pay Cycle, an on-demand payroll provider for $170 million provides an indication of how hot the (saas/on-demand/cloud) SOC market is becoming. According to the official announcement: The acquisition will give small businesses access to one of the most innovative, easy-to-use and cost-effective online payroll solutions from one of the strongest and most [...]

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QuickBooks under attack

April 22, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

One of the great benefits of the current crop of publishing tools is that it allows anyone with an internet connection to add information to the global pool of knowledge upon which we can all draw and learn. One example is NMQB or No More Quick Books. As the site says: We’ve been using the [...]

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KashFlow goes free, becomes a PaaS player

March 5, 2009 Featured

It’s going to be a KashFlow day here so bear with me. Duane Jackson just announced (via Twitter) that KashFlow is free for the firast year to existing MYOB, Quickbooks, or Sage users. The offer runs through to 30th April. According to the Kashflow site: Register for a 60 day free trial of KashFlow here [...]

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Now look what you've made me do!

February 4, 2008 General

I feel really sorry for Phil Hodgen. Check out how he has to run his law practice with a junkyard of applications: I thought that software would be the solution to all of my problems. Thus, I bought an expensive “do everything” software package.  It was cumbersome, non-intuitive, and extremely difficult to get data into [...]

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