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Changing your car could be a metaphor for software upgrade

November 11, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A conversation with Paul Walker: CEO Sage

January 22, 2010 Featured

At the Paris launch of Sage X3 v.6, I had the opportunity to meet with Paul Walker, CEO Sage. It was our first time of meeting. In attendance were Christophe Letellier, GM Sage ERP X3 worldwide and Stuart Lynn, head of Sage mid-market R&D. I didn’t take the formal Q&A route but rather wanted to [...]

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Sage listens (it does)

October 2, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Following my review of Billing Boss, I ended up having a long conversation with my main contact at the company’s HQ. During the call, I was told that Sage does listen but it was acknowledged that perhaps the company is less than good at communicating back to those who critique what they believe Sage is [...]

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New Xero pricing expands market potential

September 28, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In its post: Something for everyone Xero is signaling a change in the way it does business. It is moving towards a consumption model that reflects the differing needs of very small, small and slightly larger and more complex businesses. In doing so, it is widening the net for its service at the lower end. [...]

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Funeral pyre for on premise software

July 9, 2009 Marketing

5 minutes to install 1 week to implement 10 years to debug 6 minutes to destroy You’ve got to give Duane Jackson some kudos for his cheeky approach to marketing. Once you’ve seen the first 10 seconds you know where it is going and I kind of wished the fire brigade would turn up and [...]

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Sage cutting jobs, outlook weak

March 19, 2009 General

It is little more than rumour being spread by Deutsche Bank in the FT but it looks like Sage will have to shed jobs: Deutsche estimated that Sage might be able to cut up to 455 staff, or 3 per cent of its total, at an exceptional cost of £18m. That would require the group [...]

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