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Xero Releases Multi-currency and First Hint of Tiered Pricing

Xero Releases Multi-currency and First Hint of Tiered Pricing

By Ben Kepes on June 21, 2009

(Disclosure – in the lead-up to the release of multi-currency, I did a very small amount of contracting to Xero to produce some marketing videos) A couple of months ago while I was in San Francisco I saw a sneak preview of some screen flows for Xero’s multi-currency capability. At the time I was pretty […]

Posted in Design, Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, multi currency, pricing, rod drury, saas, xe.com, xero | 8 Responses

Intuit Launches the IPP Version 2

Intuit Launches the IPP Version 2

By Ben Kepes on June 3, 2009

This morning Intuit will lift the wraps on the latest version of the Intuit Partner Platform. I took a briefing from Alex Chriss, Business leader of the IPP a few days ago (disclosure – I’m travelling to Boston for Enterprise 2.0 in a few weeks and will be doing some work with Intuit around the […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, intuit, ipp, quickbooks, workplace | 22 Responses

Review – Fusion Accounting

Review – Fusion Accounting

By Ben Kepes on May 29, 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 Fusion Accounts  is another product borne out of necessity. A bunch of developers needing an accounting solution on […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, fusion, stiona, user experience | 1 Response

The Acquisitions Begin

By Ben Kepes on May 27, 2009

I’ve had a few conversations with people inside the SaaS accounting industry in the past few weeks and there is something of a crescendo of voices predicting the next couple of years will see a real consolidation in the space. There are so many vendors, many of whom haven’t got clarity around their monetisation strategies. […]

Posted in General, Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, blinksale, doublewide labs, freshbooks

Credit Where Credit’s Due, But the Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating

By Ben Kepes on May 20, 2009

Just thought I’d mix my metaphors a little, but in this case it’s an appropriate mix. I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with Sage. Around the time of the ill-fated release of their SageLive product last year, I spent some time talking to the parent company in the UK about the offering and about SaaS […]

Posted in Design, Strategy | Tagged accy2, kashflow, saas, sage | 2 Responses

Paymo – Review

Paymo – Review

By Ben Kepes on May 11, 2009

Paymo is a cloud time tracking system that, in something of a novel extension, is soon to begin offering an invoicing system as an adjunct to time tracking. It nicely combines the time tracking and invoicing aspects of jobs and does so on a multi-language, multi-currency basis. Their multi-language functionality is at the user level, […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, paymo, saas, time tracking | 2 Responses

Channel Partnerships and SaaS

By Ben Kepes on May 10, 2009

Well they seem to be coming thick and fast… Only a few weeks ago I wrote about Intacct scoring a coup in the US by having the American Institute of CPAs choosing them as the preferred SaaS accounting offering. A few weeks ago also I wrote about Xero having Telstra in Australia (and previously Telecom […]

Posted in Marketing, Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, bt, saas, smartpayroll, smartxero, telecom new zealand, telstra, xero | 1 Response

A New Acronym, But This Time It’s (Maybe) Justified

By Ben Kepes on May 7, 2009

FreshBooks (CloudAve coverage here) have just created a whole new acronym, SaaN or Software as a Network. While I’m kind of ambivalent about the nomenclature I’m totally excited about what it means. FreshBooks has noticed something among the way its 700000 or so customers work and that is that data, in their cases invoices, hop […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged accy2, billflo, freshbooks, saan, saas, smb, sme | 3 Responses

FUD – Not Just the Domain of the Desktop Guys

By Ben Kepes on May 5, 2009

Here at CloudAve we’re good at uncovering the FUD that desktop vendors create to undermine the attempts fo us all to educate the market to the benefits of cloud computing. I’d always kind of hoped that this sort of tactic would bypass SaaS players and we could all work on growing the SaaS pie before […]

Posted in Marketing | Tagged accy2, outright, saas | 1 Response

Multi Currency for Every Possible Permutation

Multi Currency for Every Possible Permutation

By Ben Kepes on May 5, 2009

One major differentiator between competing SaaS accounting products is in their ability to work in multi-currencies. Beyond the simple yes/no answer however is the degree the vendor goes to in order to allow every possible use case for multi currency. I’ve been invited to spend some time with Xero in a couple of weeks doing […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, multi currency, xero | 3 Responses

SaaS Accounting – Six (or Seven) Months On

By Ben Kepes on May 4, 2009

I’ve been running my Accounting 2.0 series since the very first day of CloudAve – now, seven months on, it seems a good time to look back on what I’ve seen. In the past seven months I’ve reviewed around 25 SaaS accounting products, and written 30 or 40 analysis pieces looking at accounting 2.0. I’ve […]

Posted in Small business | Tagged accy2, craig winkler, intuit, michael jackson, myob, saas, saasu, sage, smb, sme, xero | 7 Responses

On Making Life Easier, and Worthless Whitepapers

By Ben Kepes on May 1, 2009

A few days ago I heard from Javelin CRM (my review here) that they’d completed their integration with Xero (my review here). Take a look at the video explaining how the integration works; Javelin & Xero from Javelin on Vimeo. It’s kind of odd that after years of evangelising the benefits that SaaS integration can […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, javelin, sage, whitepaper, xero | 1 Response

Business Finance/Personal Finance – It’s All Just Money

Business Finance/Personal Finance – It’s All Just Money

By Ben Kepes on April 29, 2009

I came across a tweet the other day that was really interesting (at least to my small world). The official Xero twitter feed tweeted the following; This is actually bigger and more exciting than initial consideration would indicate. I was chatting with someone during a conference break the other day (as always the back channel proving […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, adamo, dell, mint, personal finance, pocketsmith, saas, wesabe, xero | 4 Responses

Review – Pearl 2.0

Review – Pearl 2.0

By Ben Kepes on April 27, 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    Pearl has been building their business software solutions for a decade or so now but have only […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged accy2, CRM, ecommerce, erp, pearl, saas, smb, sme | 3 Responses

*Superstars* of SaaS

By Ben Kepes on April 24, 2009

I woke at an ungodly hour yesterday morning my time (2am from memory) in order to take part in what was dubbed a session with the superstars of SaaS. Of course being merely the moderator I wasn’t included in that group – but I was privileged to be able to moderate the session that included some […]

Posted in General | Tagged accy2, clarity, cloudworks, freshbooks, iacez, saas, shoeboxed, sme | 1 Response

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