The Challenge of Offline Saas Revisited
Paul Michaud wrote a post here a couple of days ago on the challenge of allowing offline usage in a Saas based system. In his comprehensive discussion, he used the example of a Saas based contact management system and the complexities involved in allowing users to take their data, manipulate it offline, and then synchronise [...]
Siondo – Review
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 Siondo is a London-based SaaS vendor that has been “bootstrapped” into existence. Founded by Christian Steiner (CEO) and [...]
Coda 2go/Corefino Mash It Up
CODA and Corefino recently announced that they’re joining forces to produce what they’re calling a mid-market alternative to the traditional on-premise ERP offerings. Called Corefino 2go, the offering combines the Force.com-based CODA 2go accounting software with Corefino’s Triple-C Technology Platform. I’ve come across Coda 2go previously – they’re one of the few vendors that have [...]
Host Analytics – New release and new Funding
Host Analytics is a corporate performance management (CPM) SaaS offering which last week briefed me on some changes that they believe will turn up the heat on the CPM market. The company, which claims 8,000 active, and more importantly paying, users from enterprises like JP Morgan Chase, Procter & Gamble, Otis Spunkmeyer and Pitney Bowes, [...]
Netbooks Emerges from Hibernation as WorkingPoint: SaaS for SMB, with Nicer UI but Reduced Functionality.
(This post is now updated, see bottom)Netbooks, provider of an Integrated SaaS Business Suite for Very Small Businesses came out of hibernation with a new name: WorkingPoint. In the never-ending debate of all-in-one vs. best-of-breed I tend to represent the “old-school” which believes in the value of having one tightly integrated system for most business [...]
SAP Does Not Do Your Laundry
I found a hilarious story @ The Daily WTF (thanks Devan for introducing me to the site) Except for the dryers being infamous for not performing their most basic task – drying –students at the Sogn Student Village near the University of Oslo were happy with how the laundry system worked. Just swipe your laundry [...]
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 [...]
Netsuite Goes Where SAP Fears to Tread
We’ve been waiting for what seems like an eternity now for SAP to finally release it’s own SaaS offering Business ByDesign. The on-again, off-again and often delayed product that is proving so challenging both on a cultural and a technical level. (As an aside, if you’re reading this SAP please come and talk to us [...]
Accounting and E-Commerce a Needs Analysis
Integration is not just a conceptual topic that I talk about for pleasure – it’s a way to solve real world problems and inefficiencies. The best way to espouse a concept however is by way of example so I thought I’d provide a good one. I was in the process of writing an RFP for [...]
Oracle Launches Sourcing On-Demand. So Much for the Gibberish-talk :-)
Image by wicho via Flickr “The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an [...]
What Does “Fully Featured” Really Mean?
In my ongoing Accounting 2.0 series (tag here) I’ve been looking at the way SaaS accounting vendors describe their products. A vast number of vendors bandy terms like “fully featured package around”. Often times this is used to describe a product that fulfils a very discrete subset of the accounting function. Recently some comments around [...]
Adding Value (and Product) to Inventory
The number of SaaS accounting offerings out there is growing by the day already the CloudAve AccountingThread runs to well over a dozen product reviews (as well as a bunch of guest posts and analysis pieces – check it out here). Despite this impressive showing, and perhaps indicative of the fact that the vendors are [...]
accountsIQ – Review
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 accountsIQ is a product from Irish software house Visor. It is marketed as a full featured multi-currency business [...]
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, [...]
