Online Finance – Rigid Segmentation Doesn’t Work
Recently ReadWriteWeb started a series taking a very high level look at online finance. One of the posts discussed the evolving online finance ecosystem. In the post, RWW editor Richard MacManus interviewed CEO of Xero (see disclosure), Rod Drury and repeated Drury’s assertion that online finance can be separated into four distinct types of markets: [...]
Multi-Currency – The Maelstrom Continues
Disclosure – One of my specialties is accounting software – I quote half a dozen vendors in the below post, some of whom I have past or current consulting relationships with. Full disclosure of all my industry affiliations can be seen here. A little while ago I posted discussing the recent introduction of multi-currency functionality [...]
The First of the Acquisitions
It was only a matter of time before one of the fledgling accounting SaaS vendors sold their business either in part or in full. Only last week I was sitting down with someone in San Francisco discussing what Microsoft’s canning of Money means for online accounting – we both agreed that the next couple of [...]
Get Real With Pricing
Since beginning my Accounting 2.0 series I’ve reviewed dozen of accounting applications from lightweight invoicing numbers through to fully fledged systems. I’ve also seen a bunch of different price point thrown into the mix – from free through to many thousands of dollars per annum. The two ends of that spectrum can be safely ignored [...]
Creative PR – How Refreshing!
I’ve long been a little dismissive of public relations – seeing it as generally little more than press release bombing of already over taxed media types. But every so often I trip across something that restores some faith. case in point a nice little PR stunt that IAC-EZ is running. IAC-EZ’s PR maven, Cindy Rakowitz [...]
Make It Relevant for ME!
A few weeks ago IAC-EZ (CloudAve review here) introduced state tax estimates to go along with the federal ones they already provided. At the time State taxes were limited to California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Following their rapid develop and release strategy, IAC-EZ have just released a new version that includes State [...]
More Integration from those Charming Canucks
I reviewed a little while ago IAC-EZ a start-up SaaS accounting offering that leverages the relatively huge and sophisticated FreshBooks customer base. Hot on the heels of that integration comes news that Clarity Accounting, another Canadian SaaS accounting company, has finished it’s integration with FreshBooks also To celebrate, those friendly FreshBooks people are offering Clarity [...]
A View from the Driver’s Seat: The Future of Business Process Software
As part of our Accounting 2.0 series here on CloudAve, we reached out to some accounting software visionaries to give us their take on the future of accounting/business software and how the eco system would look five or ten years out. Heather Villa is co-founder of IAC-EZ (CloudAve review here) and she agreed to take [...]
IAC-EZ – 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 Sporting what would have to be the least sexy SaaS accounting name yet created (), IAC-EZ is a [...]
