Intuit and Microsoft Sign Deal to Serve SMBs
Huge breaking news this morning is that Microsoft and Intuit (see disclosure here) have agreed to work together on the Intuit Partner Platform to bring a host of products and services to a greatly expanded customer base. This really is massive news for anyone involved in small or medium business – be it as a [...]
It’s About Focus – SMBs, SaaS, Knitting and Dogfood
Awhile ago I posted a bit of a rant about an experience one of my businesses was having with a particular ISP who didn’t seem to understand the concept of customer service. Briefly I told the sorry tale of woe that we experienced with our site hosted on a traditional ISPs VPS offering. I got [...]
billFLO Bringing Services to the Little Guys
I’ve written before about billFLO, a service that enables users to send and receive machine readable invoices straight into their accounting system. They’re announcing this morning a deal which is a great case study to show the value that connected business services can bring to SMBs. It’s a subject I’ve passionately been discussing with a [...]
Your Business Cloud – Holy Grail Anyone?
I’m a cloud evangelist from what I believe is a totally pragmatic perspective – I believe the cloud in general, and SaaS in particular, deliver significant added value merely by virtue of the fact that they’re connected, connectable and able to leverage aggregate knowledge. I’m not however completely dogmatic. While I understand the arguments for [...]
Pastel My Business Online – 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 SoftlinePastel is a South African software house owned by Sage PLC. Pastel was founded in 1990 by Steve [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nibbling Around the Edges – KashGuard for KashFlow
(Updates below) One of the exciting parts about watching SaaS companies gain critical mass, is seeing the business that start up around them offering a related, but not core, piece of functionality. It’s always a relatively risky place for a vendor to be – they’re reliant on the “parent app”, and the more successful their [...]
PostalMethods – Business process Automation or Gilded Lily?
I wrote an unusually abrupt post a year or so ago about PostalMethods a service that automates the sending of postal mail. At the time I merely looks at part of the offering and my doubt was expressed in no uncertain terms by saying; WTF? Postal Methods connects to the business via API to output [...]
30 Days With Xero
Yes, we have finally done it! After approximately 2 years of to-ing and fro-ing, we have moved our business accounting system to a fully Cloud based service. In this instance, we have chosen to go with Xero Accounting after evaluating a few online options. Ben Kepes has already done a review of Xero on this [...]
KashFlow Scores SE Asia and Moves Locations
Lots of exciting news for KashFlow this week – a shift of location and a new partnership. Firstly they’re announcing a shift from Essex to London (that’s in England for the US readers ), at the same time they’ve appointed two new directors to the board. Lord Young, (yes, that’s a real Lord) a major [...]
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 [...]
More Multi-Currency and Product Pricing Discussion
Hot on the heels of the announcement yesterday by Xero about multi-currency, I received an email from someone commenting about some multi-currency and pricing issues around Saasu, another SaaS accounting product. Saasu have been developing multi-currency for awhile and the implementation of this feature had apparently been delayed for a period of time. On top [...]
Update to Workingpoint / Netbooks Post
Just a quick note (since those who have read the original may miss the news) that I’ve updated my post on WorkingPoint, formerly Netbooks. The title is changed too, and it speaks for itself (addition in italics): Netbooks Emerges from Hibernation as WorkingPoint: SaaS for SMB, with Nicer UI but Reduced Functionality.
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 [...]
