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Wave Updates UI, Rolls out Broad SMB Financial Portfolio

Wave Updates UI, Rolls out Broad SMB Financial Portfolio

By Ben Kepes on December 17, 2012

I’ve been following Wave since its founding back in November 2010. The company has an interesting approach to the traditionally conservative accounting software space – it’s product is provided to the user at no cost who, in return, receive personalized “Business Savings”, or special deals offered by businesses that pay Wave Accounting revenue each time […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged accy2, accy20, Automatic Data Processing, Kirk Simpson, PayCycle, user interface, wave accounting, xero

Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

By Ben Kepes on August 30, 2012

On my first ever trip to the Bay area, six or so years ago, I attended the, now defunct, Office 2.0 conference. At the event I moderated a panel looking at what Accounting 2.0 actually meant and the value it could drive. The panel was a who’s who of the space and included folks from […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged accy2, FreshBook, intuit, intuit partner platform, invoice, mike mcderment, quickbooks, Small Business Web, xero

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

Pearl Goes Bright, and Gets Some Cash

Pearl Goes Bright, and Gets Some Cash

By Ben Kepes on June 24, 2010

I’ve written before about Pearl, the UK based “mini-ERP” that just seems to do everything. I’ve always thought of it as the little engine that could, with a team of only five people they have managed to build a solution that covers the majority of bases that a real world business might need – stock, […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, pearl | 3 Responses

A Tale of Two Generations – Sage Languishes while Financial Force Innovates

A Tale of Two Generations – Sage Languishes while Financial Force Innovates

By Ben Kepes on May 27, 2010

Software is undergoing a generational change – I thought I’d pull out an example to show what the old generation is doiing and contrast that to what the “cool kids” are doing. I was interested to read Dennis Howlett’s post about Sage recently. In his post Dennis reflected on the signals he’s getting from his […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, billingboss, carbon, financialforce, sage, sap

Xero Now Hosted by MYOB

Xero Now Hosted by MYOB

By Ben Kepes on March 29, 2010

It’s not Friday, but it’s time for a Friday funny… A couple of years ago, Xero got hold of the URL relating to MYOB’s new (at that time) SaaS product Business Basics Online. I posted about it at the time saying: But in the craziest turn of the story, check out this link –www.businessbasicsonline.co.nz. Yes […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged accy2, myob, xero

Xero Personal – Is That It?

Xero Personal – Is That It?

By Ben Kepes on March 28, 2010

Six months ago Xero (see disclosure statement) announced that they’d be building a personal finance application to go with their business one. I was pleased at the time, in part because I believe the personal/business divide is an artificial one (see post here). This morning Xero flicked the switch on its long awaited personal edition […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, heaps, mint, pocketsmith, xero, xero persona | 4 Responses

Personal and Business Finance – Blurring the Lines

Personal and Business Finance – Blurring the Lines

By Ben Kepes on March 22, 2010

I posted a year or so ago that: the distinction between personal and business finance is pretty blurred It was a call for micro and small business accounting vendors to offer a personal finance service in the acknowledgement that most micro businesses have an increasingly blurred line between personal and business expenses. As I said […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, personal finance, xero | 6 Responses

SaaS Implementation. A Case Study and a Call for a Deeper Needs Analysis…

By Ben Kepes on February 23, 2010

I spend a lot of time hand waving about the joys of SaaS accounting, I thought it’d be an idea to write some stories of successful implementations – kind of a case-study-lite type series. If you’re a vendor with a story to tell (or even better and end user with a story to tell) drop […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, acumatica, brainsell, erp | 2 Responses

Company.com – It’s All About Community

Company.com – It’s All About Community

By Ben Kepes on February 18, 2010

I’m an advocate for small and medium businesses (SMBs) – coming from a SMB background I’m all to aware of the difficulties that those at the bottom of the foodchain experience. I’ve long been involved in business advisory roles and was part of a team that set up a SMB online community a couple of […]

Posted in Marketing, Small business | Tagged accy2, company.com, intuit, ipp, sage, sagelive, smb, sme | 2 Responses

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

Zoho Invoice 2.0 Unwraps

Zoho Invoice 2.0 Unwraps

By Ben Kepes on February 11, 2010

Zoho has just unveiled the next generation release of its invoice product. The two most notable changes are the inclusion of a nice business-logic dashboard, and the addition of expenses to the offering. Generally the UI has been greatly improved – there is nice use of tabs as opposed to separate boxes for further information […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, zoho invoice | 1 Response

Online Finance – Rigid Segmentation Doesn’t Work

Online Finance – Rigid Segmentation Doesn’t Work

By Ben Kepes on February 8, 2010

Recently ReadWriteWeb started a series taking a very high level look at online finance. One of the posts discussed the evolving online finance ecosystem. In the post, RWW editor Richard MacManus interviewed CEO of Xero (see disclosure), Rod Drury and repeated Drury’s assertion that online finance can be separated into four distinct types of markets: […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged accy2, freeagentcentral, iac-ez, intacct, intuit, mint, myob, netsuite, pocketsmith, quickbooks, sage, sap, success factors, xero | 4 Responses

NetSuite Finds Partner, Needs to Tackle Verticals

NetSuite Finds Partner, Needs to Tackle Verticals

By Ben Kepes on February 3, 2010

I had an advance briefing yesterday from NetSuite who are announcing this morning a new partnership with Hein & Associates. Hein is a full-service public accounting and advisory firm with offices in Denver, Houston, Dallas, and Irvine, California. This partnership sees them partner with NetSuite to provide a services offering around the NetSuite product. This […]

Posted in Enterprise, Strategy | Tagged accy2, hein, netsuite | 2 Responses

Multi-Currency – The Maelstrom Continues

Multi-Currency – The Maelstrom Continues

By Ben Kepes on February 1, 2010

Disclosure – One of my specialties is accounting software – I quote half a dozen vendors in the below post, some of whom I have past or current consulting relationships with. Full disclosure of all my industry affiliations can be seen here. A little while ago I posted discussing the recent introduction of multi-currency functionality […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged accy2, financialforce, freeagentcentral, iac-ez, intacct, xero | 2 Responses

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