Ubikwiti – 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 Earlier this week a post of mine generated some very heated exchanges, both public and private. As I [...]
FastDue – Searching for Some Secret Sauce
There are two distinct product strategies that SaaS office productivity vendors can take. One is to encourage third parties to build complementary solutions to their own, and in this way create a multi-vendor ecosystem. In the business realm FreshBooks is a perfect example of this strategy. To succeed with this strategy, vendors need to have [...]
Business ByNetSuite vs Business ByDesign, Take Two
NetSuite, provider of Web-based integrated business systems for the SMB market is going after bigger fish: the leader in Enterprise Software, SAP. The aptly named Business ByNetsuite program guarantees at least 50% savings to current SAP R/3 customers relative to – watch this! – the annual maintenance fees they are now paying to SAP. Yes, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Zoho: Best LittleCo of 2008 that Could … and Will
Most CloudAve readers probably know that Zoho is our exclusive sponsor. When we launched in September, the speculation that this will turn us into nothing but a PR outlet for Zoho was inevitable. I think in these few months we have proven otherwise, by being very conservative with Zoho coverage (if anything, we have a [...]
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, [...]
NetSuite Goes After SAP – But Where is Business ByDesign?
Ben recently reported on how NetSuite is going after Salesforce.com, by announcing their Renewforce program. Today NetSuite is going after bigger fish: the leader in Enterprise Software, SAP. The aptly named Business ByNetsuite program guarantees at least 50% savings to current SAP R/3 customers relative to – watch this! – the annual maintenance fees they [...]
SAP Business ByDesign, No News?
Last week I was at the SAP TechEd Berlin and in all the press conferences/presentations there was no mention of Business By Design. During the press conference with Leo Apotheker the Co-CEO of SAP when a reporter asked about BBD he referred back to their announcements in June. As I walked the exhibition hall however, [...]
Trust the Cloud, but Have a Backup Plan. Google Lockouts are not Fun.
Just about every few month we get a high-profile case of someone getting shut out of their Gmail and other Google services. Google is notorious for freezing accounts without a warning, often in the users defence, i.e. when they detect probability of hacking. When you’re Loren Baker, Editor of Search Engine Journal and blog about [...]
"SaaS as Recession-proofing Software" Theme Picking Up
It looks like I may have started ( actually, just re-started) a trend discussing How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession. Sramana Mitra @ Forbes talks about 'SaaS-ing' Back At The Economy: Some of the robustness of SaaS companies comes from the fact that the sector caters heavily to small businesses. This is because their [...]
