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Sage hikes Accountants' Club fees, shoots self in face

September 29, 2010 General
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While the trend in software is for flat or reduced cost, Sage thinks it can buck the market by increasing Accountant Club fees. From AccountingWeb’s Any Answers: Sage have just increased my accountants club from £645 to £800. What a cheek. They say I am getting lots of extra benefits – but I don’t want [...]

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Innovation in the CFO's office

August 25, 2010 Innovation

While I tend to concentrate on professional services firms a couple of questions were raised this week that got me thinking. The last two days I’ve been out in Silicon Valley in analyst briefings with Workday and SAP Labs. Workday is noodling over and endeavouring to redefine the meaning of work. One of its trains [...]

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NetSuite bullish after beating Q2 estimates

August 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

When I met with NetSuite in London the other week, I heard Zach Nelson, the company’s CEO, imply revenue approaching $200 million in the current fiscal year. At the time, the company could not comment officially as it was in the ‘quiet period.’ Yesterday’s earnings call (replay available) and results announcement suggest the company is on [...]

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Best of breed or best of suites? The transformational argument

August 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Rod Drury dropped a bomb into the Xero blog on that perennial of topics: best of breed or best of suites? I am surprised that it has reared its head so relatively early in the SaaS development lifecycle. As Rod says: The incumbent desktop products that have been around for many years have added many [...]

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SAP slow to adopt SaaS?

August 4, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I’ve been noodling over some statistics that came from a survey of 100 UK and Ireland SAP User Group people. It covers attitudes towards SaaS. Given this is the week when SAP put Business ByDesign into general release, it is appropriate to think through some of the survey’s implications. The stats have been out for [...]

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SAP Business ByDesign 2.5: time to invest?

August 3, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Yesterday SAP announced the general availability of SAP Business ByDesign 2.5. In real world language that means it is there for anyone to check out and buy rather than what has been happening: a controlled release to achieve a baseline of 100 customers. Along with the release came confirmation that SAP is offering starter packs [...]

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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 [...]

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So you want to be a saas consultant?

July 12, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Read on… This is really a follow up post to the one I did last week re: NetSuite and upon which Wayne Schultz commented: Where do typical consulting firms make money consulting on Netsuite or any SaaS. The main answer that I seem to hear from the early firms that are in this space providing [...]

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Xero tilting at Sage?

July 7, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Gary Turner’s post: Long distance running, icebergs and Sage contains this intriguing passage: …building a business that gets to 1,000 paying customers is very tough, but getting to 5,000 or 10,000 and beyond is exponentially much, much harder and more complex, particularly if you have to change course or undo decisions mid-way through. So, it’s [...]

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