Finding the Hub – A Common Data Model
A couple of weeks ago I roused myself at 1:30am to moderate a radio show in my ongoing series for VoiceAmerica “Kepes in the Clouds”. This time I had the pleasure of speaking with Sunir Shah, Chief Handshaker from FreshBooks, and Alex Chriss, Business Lead for the Intuit Partner Platform (disclosure – the IPP is [...]
Finding the Magic Penny, Intuit Partner Platform Goes OpenSource
Aroha is love if you give it away, give it away, give it away Aroha is love if you give it away, ‘cos it comes right back to you. It’s just like a magic penny, hold on tight and you won’t get any Lend it, spend it, give it away, and it comes right back [...]
Leveraging Platforms
Disclosure – I was assisted in attending the recent Enteprise 2.0 conference in Boston by Intuit – however, while they are mentioned in the post, this is not a look at Intuit in particular, rather generally at platform plays. After spending time talking to Intuit about it’s Partner Platform a few weeks ago, and getting [...]
Six One Way, Half a Dozen the Other – Traditional Vendors and SaaS
Someone sent me an email the other day alerting me to the fact that Accomplish, a vendor of desktop small business accounting software, has just announced that it’ll be providing a SaaS product. Nothing overly interesting in that, but what was interesting was reading the interview with Accomplish General Manager Grant Hewson and seeing the [...]
Selecting Cloud Providers
If you’re moving towards cloud computing, what’s your shortlist? What questions should you ask? What answers should you demand? Join this panel of analysts and cloud computing experts as we build a selection criteria live, arming you with the facts you need to pick a cloud solution that’s right for you. Speakers: Tony Lucas, CEO, [...]
Intuit Did Not Kill MS Money. Microsoft Did. Slowly, Over Long Years. Here’s the Full Saga.
An era comes to an end on June 30th, when Microsoft discontinues their PFM (Personal Financial Management) product, Money. The story started outside Microsoft, with a startup named Intuit releasing their first DOS-based PFM software, Quicken. The concept was simple and powerful: balance your checkbook, keep track of your financial transactions electronically. It worked; in [...]
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 [...]
Kepes in the Clouds (Sans Diamonds)
My fellow Editor, Ben is to modest to post it, so I will do it: Due to the volume of listener response – including much Twitter discussion #Follow Friday, and #journchat and more — to its first panel on SaaS (Software as a Service) VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network has asked ‘Cloud Evangelist’ Ben Kepes to [...]
GlueCon – It’s All About the User
What am I doing blogging at 2am? Preparing for my panel tomorrow which, although entitled “Platforms and Clouds: Building Out Web Apps in the Sky”, we’ll subvert to a different theme. The panel includes; Sam Charrington from Appistry Peter Coffee from Salesforce.com Jeff Collins from Intuit Jeff Fedor from Parkvu I met with some of [...]
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 [...]
Old-timers Getting SaaSy
I’m always looking for interesting tales that show the backroom moves of incumbent players manoeuvring into SaaS plays. My team of intel gatherers have picked up an interesting story along these lines. Late last year Michael Jackson, the ex-chairman of Sage, tried to buy UK SaaS accounting player KashFlow for £2.3m. At the time KashFlow [...]
Finding a Babel Fish for Data
I guess the Babel Fish won’t mean much to the new generation of readers of this blog. In the 1981 series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Babel Fish was a creature that, when placed in ones ear, allows anyone to understand anything said, no matter the language being spoken – (see video at [...]
PaaS, Trusting Beyond Its Initial Hype
Image via Wikipedia Friday, I wrote about the shutdown of PaaS vendor, Coghead, and wondered how one can minimize the risks involved with such scenarios. Unless we figure out a way to minimize such risks, it will be impossible to convince enterprise customers to trust their applications on top of PaaS. Let us take a detour and check out some of the players [...]
Bootstrap/Outright – 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 Bootstrap was created in mid 2008 by Kevin Reeth and Ben Curren a couple of software guys with [...]
It’s a Numbers Game – On SaaS Uptake
Xero posted recently detailing the result of a customers survey looking at what accounting solutions were used prior to the move to Xero. Now all companies are entitled to do a little bit of chest-beating (last week it was KashFlow’s turn). Looking beyond the spin however builds some insights for the individual company, and the [...]
