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Is the Cloud term an asset or just marketing hype?

Is the Cloud term an asset or just marketing hype?

By David Terrar on March 2, 2010

A few things came together for me this week around the Cloud term.  I spent time with one of my best customers discussing online accounting, what we should do to improve the product we represent in the UK, and how we should position to beat the incumbent in the small business market, Sage.  But the […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged accounting, cloud, cloud computing, cloud computing world forum, Enterprise, eurocloud, finance, iaas, marketing, on-demand, paas, readwritecloud, saas, sales, twinfield

SaaS Accounting Gains: Now What Say You, McKinsey?

SaaS Accounting Gains: Now What Say You, McKinsey?

By Zoli Erdos on February 15, 2010

According to Goldman Sachs Accounting is now at the #3 spot in SaaS implementations, reports Dennis Howlett. Not a real surprise, certainly not to Dennis’s readers, or those who follow our  Accounting 2.0 series. Still, seeing the numbers makes me feel good, given that I debated a short-sighted report by McKinsey a few years ago, […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged accounting, accy2, analysts, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, saas

The SaaS applications wiki - open for business

The SaaS applications wiki – open for business

By David Terrar on February 12, 2010

Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK.  I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the […]

Posted in General | Tagged accounting, accountingweb, basda, cloud, cloud computing, collaboration, Enterprise, eurocloud, finance, intellect, on-demand, pbworks, saas, wiki, wikis | 1 Response

Can Cloud vendors move beyond the terminology debate?

Can Cloud vendors move beyond the terminology debate?

By David Terrar on December 18, 2009

I recently mentioned Richard Messik’s great post castigating Cloud vendors on their jargon overload in the panel discussions at Softworld back in October.  Over on AccountingWEB there has been some vigorous debate around the Cloud issues in discussion threads on whether accountants should be talking to their clients about Cloud Computing, the business case for […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged accounting, basda, cloud, cloud computing, eurocloud, iaas, icaew, intellect, mamut, netsuite, on-demand, paas, saas, salesforce.com, softworld, standards, ZDNet | 1 Response

Does AccountingWEB get SaaS?

Does AccountingWEB get SaaS?

By David Terrar on December 4, 2009

Let me start this post by saying I’m a big fan of AccountingWEB (in the UK, I don’t particularly follow the US edition).  For the accountants in business and in practice or anyone interested in the sector it’s one of the key resources to read – they cover everything from tax to technology, but it’s […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged #bcs09, accounting, accountingweb, businesscloud9, cloud, cloud computing, collaboration, finance, hosting, innovation, marketing, media, on-demand, online, practices, saas, sift media | 2 Responses

Mileage Calculator a Life-Saver @ Tax Time

Mileage Calculator a Life-Saver @ Tax Time

By Zoli Erdos on September 29, 2009

What tax-time, you may ask.  It’s April 15th, at least in the US. Wrong:  Anyone can get an automatic 6-month extension, which means the real tax deadline is October 15th… closing in on me … ahhhh.  No, I am not a procrastinator,  my tax forms are always almost done by April 15th and I pay […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged accounting, irs, mileage, mileage calculator, mileage rate, saas, tax deductions, tax returns, tax software, web 2.0

Breaking News: Intuit To Acquire Mint

Breaking News: Intuit To Acquire Mint

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 13, 2009

Techcrunch is reporting that Intuit (Previous Cloud Ave coverage of Intuit can be found here, here, here and here), the company that offers financial and accounting SaaS solutions to Small Businesses, is acquiring the personal finance service Mint (Previous Cloud Ave coverage of Mint can be found here and here) for $170 Million. Launched in […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged accounting, finance, intuit, mint, saas

The Challenge of Offline Saas Revisited

The Challenge of Offline Saas Revisited

By Guest Authors on August 19, 2009

Paul Michaud wrote a post here a couple of days ago on the challenge of allowing offline usage in a Saas based system.  In his comprehensive discussion, he used the example of a Saas based contact management system and the complexities involved in allowing users to take their data, manipulate it offline, and then synchronise […]

Posted in Design, Infrastructure, Small business | Tagged accounting, devan, erp, invoicing, Small business | 4 Responses

30 Days With Xero

30 Days With Xero

By Guest Authors on August 4, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Small business | Tagged accounting, accy2, devan, smb, sme, xero | 3 Responses

Crunch Gets It So Right, and at the Same Time So Wrong

By Ben Kepes on July 13, 2009

I don’t want to enter into a debate about acronyms – Microsoft’s Software + Services moniker gets some die hard Software as as Service loyalists all fired up. For the purposes of this post I’m going to take it as read that we all accept the second “S” to be the most important one – […]

Posted in General, Strategy | Tagged accounting, accy2, aicpa, crunch, icaew, intacct, kashflow, saas, saas/s, xero | 6 Responses

Coda 2go/Corefino Mash It Up

Coda 2go/Corefino Mash It Up

By Ben Kepes on June 29, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged accounting, accy2, coda2go, corefino, erp, saas, smb, sme | 1 Response

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.

By Zoli Erdos on June 17, 2009

(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 […]

Posted in Marketing, Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accounting, Accounting Software, bearingpoint, Branding, Business ByDesign, business names, CRM, enterprise software, erp, inventory management, manufacturing software, netbooks, netsuite, on-demand, order fulfillment, procurement, quickbooks, saas, salesforce.com, small business software, smb, sme, vsb, workingpoint | 1 Response

Review - CannyBill

Review – CannyBill

By Ben Kepes on March 30, 2009

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 From their site, CannyBill class themselves as a “complete web-based billing and invoicing system, perfectly suited to any […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accounting, accy2, cannybill, domain name, ssl, web hosting | 1 Response

Bootstrap/Outright - Review

Bootstrap/Outright – Review

By Ben Kepes on February 16, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accounting, accy2, bootstrap, freshbooks, intuit, irs, outright, saas accounting, smb, sme, tax | 4 Responses

accountsIQ - Review

accountsIQ – Review

By Ben Kepes on February 9, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accounting, accountsiq, accy2, Enterprise, erp, Review, saas, saas accounting | 7 Responses

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