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 [...]
The Future of Accounting
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. Mark Davies is managing director of e-conomic (CloudAve review here) and he agreed to [...]
Providing for the Space Between – Lubricating Business
I’ve always been a little dubious about accountants as business advisers. Most accountants I’ve dealt with in the past have been very reactionary and much more interested in compliance than in being a true “embedded adviser” to the business. It was for this reason that I was initially sceptical about Xero’s strategy of using accountants [...]
Intacct – An Impressive Quarter
I had a briefing last week with Intacct. I spoke with Dan Druker, SVP of Marketing and Business Development and Peter Olson, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications and they gave me a run down both of their current thinking around go-to-market strategies and also their developments for the next quarter. Intacct is pretty comfortable with the [...]
The Beginning of the End for the Incumbents?
MYOB announced yesterday that the takeover attempt (more here) by Manhattan software has received over 50% acceptance thereby triggering the compulsory acquisition process. Readers will recall that MYOB is the dominant player in accounting software in Australasia as well as having made forays into other markets. MYOB also recently release an initial SaaS product (review [...]
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 [...]
Under Pressure
If only Freddie were still alive, he’d provide a shoulder to cry on for SaaS vendors. Yes, as the song says, it’s all about pressure; News today that Xero (review here) has reduced it’s UK subscription from GBP29 per month to GBP19 per month. Putting a brave face on the announcement (spin perhaps) Xero said [...]
Liquid Accounts – 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 Liquid Accounts had its genesis in an application created in 2001 for a large franchisor. Thereafter the offering [...]
E-conomic – 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 e-conomic is a Danish software vendor that offers both a Scandinavian, and a UK customised SaaS accounting application. [...]
Another Global SaaS Accounting Player
There are two ways to do SaaS accounting. One is to produce highly regionalised offerings in a small number of locations while the other is to produce a product that is sufficiently general and customisable to be used globally. Until now, Xero (review here) had taken the former route – having released regional specific offerings [...]
Going Live, With Sage. Initial Review of SageLive
I posted a few weeks ago about the impending release of Sage’s first on-demand accounting product, SageLive. As I’ve said before, it’s all very well for a start-up to create a SaaS product but for a traditional software vendor to move (at least in part) to a subscription based service is a difficult ask – [...]
Time59 – 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 Time59 is online time and billing software for solo professionals. It’s designed to make the "getting paid" part [...]
Banking 2.0? They're Nowhere Near 1.0 Yet
In his recent guest post here on CloudAve, Rod Drury made some predictions for the future of financial software. One of those predictions went thus; Business Internet Banks will emerge One bank will get the power of the web 2.0 model and expose their banking services as a collection of developer friendly API’s and turn [...]
Sold – To the Company With the Biggest Chequebook
I posted about a month ago about the suitors for accounting software company MYOB. I’ve just been told that MYOB has accepted an offer from Manhattan pending shareholder approval. Details below. As I said to another accounting software industry player, I guess the saying “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” [...]
