Xero Releases Multi-currency and First Hint of Tiered Pricing
(Disclosure – in the lead-up to the release of multi-currency, I did a very small amount of contracting to Xero to produce some marketing videos) A couple of months ago while I was in San Francisco I saw a sneak preview of some screen flows for Xero’s multi-currency capability. At the time I was pretty [...]
Intuit Launches the IPP Version 2
This morning Intuit will lift the wraps on the latest version of the Intuit Partner Platform. I took a briefing from Alex Chriss, Business leader of the IPP a few days ago (disclosure – I’m travelling to Boston for Enterprise 2.0 in a few weeks and will be doing some work with Intuit around the [...]
Review – Fusion Accounting
Accounting 2.0 at CloudAve In an ongoing series of reviews and analysis pieces, CloudAve will be taking a deep look into accounting software for the new world. See the other posts at this tag Introduction & Background Fusion Accounts is another product borne out of necessity. A bunch of developers needing an accounting solution on [...]
The Acquisitions Begin
I’ve had a few conversations with people inside the SaaS accounting industry in the past few weeks and there is something of a crescendo of voices predicting the next couple of years will see a real consolidation in the space. There are so many vendors, many of whom haven’t got clarity around their monetisation strategies. [...]
Credit Where Credit’s Due, But the Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating
Just thought I’d mix my metaphors a little, but in this case it’s an appropriate mix. I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with Sage. Around the time of the ill-fated release of their SageLive product last year, I spent some time talking to the parent company in the UK about the offering and about SaaS [...]
Paymo – Review
Paymo is a cloud time tracking system that, in something of a novel extension, is soon to begin offering an invoicing system as an adjunct to time tracking. It nicely combines the time tracking and invoicing aspects of jobs and does so on a multi-language, multi-currency basis. Their multi-language functionality is at the user level, [...]
Channel Partnerships and SaaS
Well they seem to be coming thick and fast… Only a few weeks ago I wrote about Intacct scoring a coup in the US by having the American Institute of CPAs choosing them as the preferred SaaS accounting offering. A few weeks ago also I wrote about Xero having Telstra in Australia (and previously Telecom [...]
A New Acronym, But This Time It’s (Maybe) Justified
FreshBooks (CloudAve coverage here) have just created a whole new acronym, SaaN or Software as a Network. While I’m kind of ambivalent about the nomenclature I’m totally excited about what it means. FreshBooks has noticed something among the way its 700000 or so customers work and that is that data, in their cases invoices, hop [...]
FUD – Not Just the Domain of the Desktop Guys
Here at CloudAve we’re good at uncovering the FUD that desktop vendors create to undermine the attempts fo us all to educate the market to the benefits of cloud computing. I’d always kind of hoped that this sort of tactic would bypass SaaS players and we could all work on growing the SaaS pie before [...]
Multi Currency for Every Possible Permutation
One major differentiator between competing SaaS accounting products is in their ability to work in multi-currencies. Beyond the simple yes/no answer however is the degree the vendor goes to in order to allow every possible use case for multi currency. I’ve been invited to spend some time with Xero in a couple of weeks doing [...]
SaaS Accounting – Six (or Seven) Months On
I’ve been running my Accounting 2.0 series since the very first day of CloudAve – now, seven months on, it seems a good time to look back on what I’ve seen. In the past seven months I’ve reviewed around 25 SaaS accounting products, and written 30 or 40 analysis pieces looking at accounting 2.0. I’ve [...]
On Making Life Easier, and Worthless Whitepapers
A few days ago I heard from Javelin CRM (my review here) that they’d completed their integration with Xero (my review here). Take a look at the video explaining how the integration works; Javelin & Xero from Javelin on Vimeo. It’s kind of odd that after years of evangelising the benefits that SaaS integration can [...]
Business Finance/Personal Finance – It’s All Just Money
I came across a tweet the other day that was really interesting (at least to my small world). The official Xero twitter feed tweeted the following; This is actually bigger and more exciting than initial consideration would indicate. I was chatting with someone during a conference break the other day (as always the back channel proving [...]
Review – Pearl 2.0
Accounting 2.0 at CloudAve In an ongoing series of reviews and analysis pieces, CloudAve will be taking a deep look into accounting software for the new world. See the other posts at this tag Introduction & Background Pearl has been building their business software solutions for a decade or so now but have only [...]
*Superstars* of SaaS
I woke at an ungodly hour yesterday morning my time (2am from memory) in order to take part in what was dubbed a session with the superstars of SaaS. Of course being merely the moderator I wasn’t included in that group – but I was privileged to be able to moderate the session that included some [...]
