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FinancialForce on a Tear

FinancialForce on a Tear

By Ben Kepes on February 21, 2013

When salesforce.com invested in FinancialForce a few years ago, there was keen interest in how this would help the company grow. There’s never been much clarity around those numbers since the parent company of FinancialForce, Unit4, doesn’t break out the individual numbers of operating divisions. That is a bit clearer now since in its last reporting period, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged accounting, CloudComputing, Economic growth, FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite, Professional Services Automation, United States

Harvest Launches Time Tracking Platform-The Rise of the Real Time Business Application Approach

Harvest Launches Time Tracking Platform-The Rise of the Real Time Business Application Approach

By Ben Kepes on November 12, 2012

I spent some time the other day talking with Tom Mornini, founder of Boocx (more on them to come). Suffice it to say Boocx is focused on becoming the accounting platform for web developers – but platform in the true sense of the word – some core pieces of infrastructure that, via API hooks can […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged accounting, Basecamp, facebook, harvest, html, time tracking, timesheet, user interface | 1 Response

Xero Rolls Out Some More Network Effects and Faces Some Criticism. Some Lessons on Viral Strategies

Xero Rolls Out Some More Network Effects and Faces Some Criticism. Some Lessons on Viral Strategies

By Ben Kepes on October 1, 2012

Xero rolled out a new update this week which included some interesting and valuable features. The introduction of online invoicing is a bit of a watershed, rather than opening emailed PDF’s, customers whose suppliers use Xero can click on a URL which takes them to an online invoice. SO far so good – saves paper, saves […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged accounting, Customer, FreshBook, invoice, rod drury, vimeo, xero

Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

By Ben Kepes on July 30, 2012

Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique and questioning, Xero’s events instead ring to the sound of hand-clapping

Posted in Application Software, Business | Tagged accounting, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, myob, New Zealand, Public company, rod drury, sage, trademe, xero

FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

By Ben Kepes on May 3, 2012

Big news in the SaaS accounting space this morning as FreeAgent announces that it has acquired US accounting provider 60mo and will be using the company as its vehicle for a US expansion. 60mo is a small SaaS provider that has quietly been going about building a small following for its financial forecasting tool. They’ve […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged 60mo, accounting, freeagent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, xero | 1 Response

Buying Cloud Accounting Software?

Buying Cloud Accounting Software?

By Zoli Erdos on April 25, 2012

Fellow Enterprise Irregular Brian Sommer is doing  a webinar this Wednesday on The Top 6 Things You Didn’t Know About Cloud Accounting Systems (But Should!). in cooperation with FinancialForce. Brian will cover a number of buying considerations and trends that are being reflected in new buyer perspectives for financial accounting software. The software market is undergoing […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged accounting, Cloud Accounting, cloud computing, quickbooks, saas accounting, Small business, software as a service, web conferencing

Xero Nabs Intuit Exec

Xero Nabs Intuit Exec

By Ben Kepes on April 24, 2012

I’ve long wondered how Xero will execute upon its North American opportunity – after all North America is the real goal for the company, and also where they face the biggest hurdles to success. I’ve even been roundly criticized for articulating this question I’ve spent some time with Xero’s US president Jamie Sutherland who seems […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged accounting, cloud computing, intuit, intuit partner platform, quickbooks, software as a service, United States, xero

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

By Ben Kepes on February 1, 2012

Exciting news today from Xero ahead of their user conference tomorrow that spans two important announcements. I’ll cover them individually. $20M Raised from Existing Shareholders Existing shareholders have reinvested to the aggregate tune of $20M. Sam Morgan, Sam Knowles, Craig Winkler and Peter Thiel’s fund Valar Ventures have all taken

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged accounting, craig winkler, LiveMigrate, myob, peter thiel, rod drury, saasu, xero

Wave Goes Payroll

Wave Goes Payroll

By Ben Kepes on November 18, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged accounting, Canada, payroll, smb, software as a service, wave accounting | 2 Responses

Twinfield show their vision of the future of accounting

Twinfield show their vision of the future of accounting

By David Terrar on October 11, 2011

Two weeks ago I was part of a modest International stream as part of  Twinfield‘s very impressive National Accountancy Day in The Netherlands.  They have been running this Annual event for 6 years and it has grown from 30 attendees back in 2005 to 500 last year, and well over 600 attendees this time, along […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged accounting, twinfield

Twinfield change partners for a new dance

Twinfield change partners for a new dance

By David Terrar on June 15, 2011

I was delighted to hear, early yesterday, that cloud accounting software provider Twinfield was acquired by Wolters Kluwer.  I have to disclose that my company, D2C, have been Twinfield’s UK partner since 2005 and so we have a vested interest in the success of the platform and some great customers and partnerships that have come […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged accounting, saas accounting, SMB Accounting, twinfield, Wolters Kluwer

SaaS And Cloud Computing Taking Off With Financials And Accounting Professionals

SaaS And Cloud Computing Taking Off With Financials And Accounting Professionals

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 18, 2011

Proformative, an online community for corporate, finance, accounting, treasury and related professionals, recently conducted an online survey of their members and found that these professionals are more open to SaaS and Cloud Computing than ever before. We have to keep in mind that this survey and report was sponsored by Netsuite and we should take […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged accounting, briefs, cloud computing, financials, netsuite, proformative, saas, survey, workday | 1 Response

Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?

Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?

By David Terrar on January 28, 2011

Last week Sage, the UK’s biggest accountancy software supplier, finally released their first real online accounting solution.  It looks like a proper SaaS or Cloud offering, unlike the hosted Online 50 product sold through a few resellers from 6 years ago, or their previous failed attempt of SageLive in 2009.  I would argue that because […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged accounting, accy2, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, quickbooks, saas, sage, software as a service

Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

By Zoli Erdos on January 19, 2011

This morning Zoho, known for SMB focused SaaS offerings in the areas of productivity, collaboration, business processes launched an Accounting app: Zoho Books. I typically don’t do detailed product reviews, when I see the first good ones, will link to them – just a few points here and then let’s discuss how it rounds out […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged accounting, business suite, CRM, erp, integration, intuit, quickbooks, Small business, smb, sme, xero, zoho, zoho books, zoho invoice | 3 Responses

Redux: Will Google Enter the Business Applications Market?

Redux: Will Google Enter the Business Applications Market?

By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010

If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then here @ CloudAve we respect that.  And it’s all a big IF. So no, I am simply  dusting off an old […]

Posted in Analysis, Enterprise | Tagged accounting, all-in-one, appexchange, atlassian, bbd, Business ByDesign, business software, CRM, enterprise software, google, google apps, lightweight software, netsuite, on-demand, saas, salesforce.com, sap, small business suite, smb, sme, software as a service, zoho | 3 Responses

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