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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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Software Satisfaction Awards 2010: dead cat bounce or a kludge?

October 8, 2010 General
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Awards ceremonies or rather very-expensive-dinners-and-booze-ups-with-star-turn-plus-some-gongs-thrown-in events are weird affairs. Vendors pony up to a media outfit in the vain hope they’ll walk away with a gong. Why do they do it? One answer might be that software vendor types don’t get out very often. At least that’s what one vendor quipped. Well, if that’s the [...]

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Progressive Practices: Nicholsons delivering benefit via Xero

October 7, 2010 Innovation
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Earlier today I had a conversation with Richard Hallsworth, IT partner with Nicholsons, a 5 partner practice based in Lincoln. Despite it has a significant agricultural client base, the firm is finding that online systems like Xero are helping change the relationship between the firm and its clients. This echoes what Phill Robinson said at [...]

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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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KashFlow's Orbit: a work in progress

September 16, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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When I first started this weblog, one of the things I wanted to see was a portal that integrated client information at multiple levels along with collaborative working, the ability to fuse tax information and final accounts preparation plus a document repository into a single repository. Earlier today (US time – I’m in the Bay [...]

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Why Sage will continue to lose momentum

September 6, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Over the weekend I’ve been reading extracts from Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd. It is one of the very few business books I am definitely buying.  Youngme Moon makes a stack of observations that resonate with me. If you’ve seen my Tweetstream from Sunday afternoon then you’ll know what I mean. Here’s a sampling of [...]

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Will complexity suck the life out of the SaaS advantage?

August 16, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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Earlier today I received an update from Xero. It said: New Ledger Edition We’ve created a new edition of Xero called Ledger for clients who really only need end-of year reporting. Even if you try it and decide you’d like to be be able to do more, such as invoicing or bank feeds, you can [...]

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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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Projecting Xero's annual report

July 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Once again AccMan sponsor Xero put in a solid performance for 2009-2010, closing out the year with revenue of NZ$3.4 million from a final customer count of 17,000. That was up from NZ$1.1 on 6,000 customers in 2009. This was achieved for a final headcount of 90 compared with 56 the previous year. Xero states [...]

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