Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?
Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have to provide for multi-currency. In a post discussing this AccMan says that; As things stand today, [...]
Reflecting on RLM – Transverse Billing and Subscription Vendor
When in Austin recently I took the opportunity to meet with Transverse, another player in a space I call Revenue Lifecycle Management of RLM. Revenue Lifecycle Management includes the obvious functional area such as subscription and billing services, but extends these into a realm that deals with the entire lifecycle of a customers relationship with [...]
The Future of (SAP) HCM Consulting and SuccessFactors – 2012
SAP recently released their first public product roadmap on their acquisition of SuccessFactors and I provided my initial thoughts in an article titled SAP and SuccessFactors Roadmap Analysis. A lot of people have reached out to me worried about the future and trying to understand what this means to the overall SAP consulting market. In an attempt [...]
Brightpearl Delivers in a Multi Channel World
Nearly three years ago in a fit of frustration I wrote a post detailing what I considered to be a relatively obvious set of requirements for a small manufacturing business I am a shareholder in. To recap – we currently use a bunch of disconnected systems because there is no
Will SaaS kill ERP? No, but it should
It’s been a busy few days. First a post on ZDNet by Eric Lai invented a few problems for Cloud, or rather SaaS, and especially multi-tenancy: inflexible, less secure, less powerfull and maybe more costly – is what Eric claims multi-tenancy SaaS to be. Thomas Wailgum neatly nailed that via a counterpost, as did Frank [...]
OneBill Launches (Another) Subscription Commerce Platform
Just when the world thought it was well provided for subscription commerce toolsets, OneBill is today launching its own take on this product area. Subscription billing is a massive area of opportunity as organizations look to gain increased flexibility and agility when it comes to selling their products in new
Subscribe To Own As New Lease To Own
The Beatles are timeless and so is music and enterprise software. There’s been an ongoing innovation in the music services. iTunes with iPods disrupted the traditional CD business model and in the ever connected cloud world Pandora, Spotify and countless others are challenging the very concept of “owning” music. Spotify gives you access to a [...]
The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…
It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its home market of Australia and New Zealand, MYOB is facing a small, but growing, and increasingly [...]
SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler
In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating. In the report we advised organizations to look at applications that; • Have significant interaction with external applications or services • Are
SnapLogic Releases its take on Master Data Management
Last week I moderated a panel at CloudBeat looking at application integration and whether standalone applications could successfully be integrated to meet the common data requirements of the enterprise. There were a few different perspectives on the panel but one thing everyone was in agreement about was that the meaning of the word “suite” has [...]
Cloudology–All That is Bad About IT
I haven’t got a lifetime’s experience in IT. Rather than an impediment in my career however, I’ve found that having come from a varied background has given me a degree of perspective that perhaps some of my lifers don’t enjoy. Case in point – this Cloudology diagram that Simon Wardley pointed out to me recently [...]
SaaS Accounting Roundup
I’ve been travelling for the past couple of weeks and haven’t kept up to date with news from the SaaS accounting companies that I usually watch closely. Here’s a summary of stuff that’s happened of late. Quick general disclosure though, I have consulted to a number of the companies below – more information here. Xero [...]
Wave Goes Payroll
I’ve written before about Wave Accounting, a vendor that is hoping to turn SMB accounting software on its head by delivering a product at a zero price point and monetizing through the smart utilization of aggregate data. The jury is out as to SMBs appetite for their data being used, and whether it is viable [...]
Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid
The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written about before, is a free [...]
Uptime Offers Monitoring and Capacity Planning for VMware
As we move into a world where organizations make more and more usage of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, providers that offer those same organizations tools to ensure the performance of those resources will become more and more important. Into that role steps uptime software, an existing player in the IT systems performance space that is releasing [...]
