Sage Software

Making tax fun with TurboTax

February 12, 2009 General

Love them or hate them, you’ve got to give our US friends at TurboTax heaps of credit for coming up with a fun way to promote their wares during the US tax filing season. It’s just as much a part of innovation as having product that does new things or makes life easier. Why can’t [...]

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Software commodification

February 12, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

John Stokdyk contacted me the other day in a hissy fit about Sage Instant Taxation pricing and how he felt he’d been led down the pricing garden path. Today he writes about it making the point that: If journalists have to fight to get a simple quote for pricing, I always wonder what it must [...]

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Sage's odd interim statement

February 6, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

You would have thought that at a time when investors and other industry watchers are looking for more transparency that companies would go out their way to provide as much information as possible. Not Sage. These days, you have to dig through the .com site to find the investors’ area but that’s only the start [...]

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Software and services: life in an old dog

February 2, 2009 General

Despite all the saas/on-demand hand waving on this and other websites there is no denying that the incumbent vendors continue to do OK. Sure, the on-demand snowball is rolling downhill and gathering pace but that doesn’t mean the world and his dog will suddenly have a flash of vendor driven insight and switch. At least [...]

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SageLive, part 1: the market issues

December 17, 2008 General

Following on earlier stories that Sage is readying an on-demand product, I can confirm this is the case. I had a briefing with Sage’s commerical and technical people to get a feel for the product, its go to market and positioning. What follows is necessarily abbreviated.This deals with the commercial aspects of Sage’s offering. The [...]

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Intuit's customers are revolting

December 15, 2008 General

I’ve always wanted to write that title about some company and on this occasion it is appropriate. My ZDNet colleague Larry Dignan has been cataloguing recent events at the US’s largest accounting software supplier for SMBs. It turns out that even they are not immune from competitive pressure: On Wednesday I detailed how user complaints [...]

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