Cloud Computing/SaaS

FinancialForce.com acquires Appirio's professional services business

December 7, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
Thumbnail image for FinancialForce.com acquires Appirio's professional services business

Yesterday evening, FinancialForce.com inked a deal which sees them acquiring Appirio‘s professional services solution.  Why does this matter and why should you care? The last year has seen FinancialForce.com make steady progress as a cloud based solution built on Salesforce.com’s Force.com development platform. A steady stream of upgrades has allowed the company to strengthen its [...]

Read the full article →

KashFlow doubles up, Twinfield blows past 100K users

November 25, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
Thumbnail image for KashFlow doubles up, Twinfield blows past 100K users

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Changing your car could be a metaphor for software upgrade

November 11, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
Thumbnail image for Changing your car could be a metaphor for software upgrade

This week I changed our car. It had to be done. The Freelander was in its 12th year, the transmission was on its last legs and the thought of ploughing a couple of thousand euro into the old girl just wasn’t appealing. It doesn’t help that the darned thing had all but broken down on [...]

Read the full article →

SAP Business ByDesign: a developer take

October 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
Thumbnail image for SAP Business ByDesign: a developer take

If you are a potential SAP customer, partner or developer then this post should be of interest. It is a tad technical but I will try and avoid too much jargon in order to make the points clear. That shouldn’t be overly difficult because while I can write code, I would not class myself as [...]

Read the full article →

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Can we please get over the security issue?

May 16, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

What’s the matter with people? It seems that ever time there is some sort of discussion around saas accounting then some clown has to bring up security. This has been going on for several years and it is time to put this issue to bed. First a wee history lesson: SaaS accounting has been around [...]

Read the full article →

Sage: Paul Walker CEO's successor

May 14, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Let’s be honest – Sage is in the crapper. It survives on entitlement subscription revenues and is driven by an acquisition led strategy. It’s latest flagship upgrade has been roundly slapped as bug infested bloatware. If you know anything about software and users you also know that might please the markets…but it is a temporary [...]

Read the full article →

Sage and SaaS: the profession's response

May 12, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Sage’s SaaS issue has not gone un-noticed by professional colleagues. I asked a selection of colleagues for their take. After all, Sage prides itself on being in tune with members of the accounting fraternity. I specifically asked those who have worked with SaaS. While being vested in the technology, they have experience of what it [...]

Read the full article →

Excel junkies in the Dark Ages

April 14, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I don’t know if it is me or whether the class of reader attracted to AccountingWeb are constitutionally incapable of taking off the blinkers but this post by John Stokdyk sums up all that is wrong in the muddle headed views of Excel junkies. Example: O’Bierne (aka Excel author and EuSpRIG stawart sysmod) described the typical [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries