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 [...]
QuickArrow Releases Small Business Edition
QuickArrow Small Business Edition is a new offering launched yesterday that comes from a ten year veteran of professional services automation software. QuickArrow’s other products are used by over 30000 users worldwide and is used by some high profile companies. QuickArrow is based in Austin, Texas and is a privately held company. The solution provides [...]
Will Gears kill Software plus Services?
Microsoft still advocates their Software plus Services strategy. And they do have a point; some software will always require to be installed and executed locally. More advanced software like Adobe Photoshop is an obvious example, but even software that has plenty of web alternatives such as Evernote can benefit from having a desktop client. But [...]
Javelin – Shooting an Arrow into CRM
Javelin has just released its CRM product after a four month private beta period. Javelin is a product that is aimed at bridging the gap between basic CRM/contact management and higher level, but complex, CRM systems. It’s designed specifically for the small business market and hope to succeed with a strategy of being; Simple and [...]
A New Learning Resource from LearningSource
After many months spent in super stealth mode, SaaS training management system vendor LearningSource has gone public with their offering. Learning Source is a fully featured, end-to-end training management system that LearningSource believe will; streamline business processes help manage business relationships enhance the learning experience in, and beyond, the classroom LearningSource has a number of [...]
Has Best-of-Breed Won?
Let’s face it: enterprise applications will never be cool – and that is part of the reason why small-business focused applications such as Basecamp and Xero get more buzz. But apart from NetSuite and 24SevenOffice, who else is offering all-in-one fully integrated business applications in the cloud? Surprisingly very few. About once a year or [...]
From 24SevenOffice to 24SevenTravel and On to …
A good 3 years ago I "discovered" a Norway-based SaaS All-in-One business suite provider, 24SevenOffice, and for a while wrote about them extensively. I truly believed I found a gem. They offered a modular but integrated system to the SMB market with unparallelled functionality: Accounting, CRM (Contacts, Lead Mgt, SFA), ERP (Supply Chain, Orders, Products, [...]
Salesforce.com’s India Plans
Image by via CrunchBase Salesforce.com is planning to invade Indian market. According to a report in the Industry Standard, Doug Farber, Vice President of Salesforce’s Asia Pacific operations, told the media that they are planning to focus on some select cities like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Gurgaon and Mumbai. They are hoping to slowly create awareness about [...]
The Ultimate Walled Garden
One of my businesses does a small amount of work for military organisations (no we don't make bombs in case you were wondering). We received a letter this morning advising us of their decision to utilise datym.com, a new central repository service for contact and address information. The way it works is that datym.com (I [...]
