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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

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

*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

Shameless Plug – Hitting the Airwaves

By Ben Kepes on April 22, 2009

Tomorrow morning (lucky I checked – I had it in my calendar for the day after!), I’ve been asked to co-host a SaaS special on VoiceAmerica. Here’s the details from their site (and no – I didn’t suggest the “leading authority” part). Saas Special – The World’s TOP Experts! As noted at the recent 2.0 […]

Posted in General | Tagged clarity, cloudworks, freshbooks, iacez, saas, shoeboxed, voiceamerica

billFLO – Helping the World Communicate

billFLO – Helping the World Communicate

By Ben Kepes on April 20, 2009

It’s a big week for product launches – and a busy week for those commenting on the accounting software space. billFLO is this week launching its offering which it claims is the first low cost solution providing electronic invoice exchange for small businesses. Think of it as EDI for the rest of us… billFLO was […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, billflo, blinksale, freshbooks, harvest, integration, less accounting, oaccounts, quickbooks, smb, sme

Get Real With Pricing

Get Real With Pricing

By Ben Kepes on April 17, 2009

Since beginning my Accounting 2.0 series I’ve reviewed dozen of accounting applications from lightweight invoicing numbers through to fully fledged systems. I’ve also seen a bunch of different price point thrown into the mix – from free through to many thousands of dollars per annum. The two ends of that spectrum can be safely ignored […]

Posted in Design, Strategy | Tagged accy2, freshbooks, getballpark, iac-ez, metalab, pricing, saas, xero | 4 Responses

The Small Business Web – The Rising Tide of Integration

By Ben Kepes on March 17, 2009

I alluded yesterday to some stirrings in terms of small business SaaS ecosystems. I didn’t post specifics yesterday as the initiative was somewhat stealth. However at the SXSW conference, attendees were advised of The Small Business Web, a cooperative currently made up of the following vendors. BatchBlue Software Social CRM for Small Business FreshBooks Painless […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged accy2, api, batchblue, freshbooks, integration, mailchimp, outright, shoeboxed, smb, sme

Finding a Babel Fish for Data

Finding a Babel Fish for Data

By Ben Kepes on March 16, 2009

I guess the Babel Fish won’t mean much to the new generation of readers of this blog. In the 1981 series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Babel Fish was a creature that, when placed in ones ear, allows anyone to understand anything said, no matter the language being spoken – (see video at […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, freshbooks, integration, intuit, kashflow, myob, oaccounts, saas, sage, shoeboxed, xero | 5 Responses

SaaS Model Proven? Time to Focus on Revenue?

By Ben Kepes on March 10, 2009

We’ve seen some fantastic figures in the last month or so that would seem to announce once and for all the validation of the SaaS model and by extension Cloud Computing. To quickly recap; Xero achieved 33% increase in aid customer numbers in 50 days FreshBooks crossed the 700,000 user mark Mint adds 3000 users […]

Posted in Enterprise, Small business, Strategy | Tagged Enterprise, freeform dynamics, freshbooks, jon collins, mint, montisation, quicken online, revenue, saas, saugatuck, xero | 5 Responses

From Shoebox to Paperless, 22nd Century (?) Expense Management

From Shoebox to Paperless, 22nd Century (?) Expense Management

By Zoli Erdos on March 4, 2009

This is the time of the year many of you inevitably spend a weekend or so sorting the box-full of receipts you had collected throughout the year – you need to re-read them, try to remember details, categorize, sort, in preparation of either preparing your own Tax Return, or handing them over to your accountant. […]

Posted in General | Tagged accy2, expense management, expense report, expenses, freshbooks, invoice, invoicing, mint, money management, paperless, quicken, saas accounting, shoeboxed, tax reporting, taxes | 6 Responses

Some Things Are Best Shoved Into a (Shoe)Box – FreshBooks, Outright and Shoeboxed

By Ben Kepes on March 3, 2009

I’m something of a realist – we live in a digital age but for whatever reason, be it audit control, risk aversion or ease of use, we all accumulate a mountain of paper receipts over time. I like services that help move the physical world into the virtual one. I was stoked then to hear […]

Posted in General | Tagged accy2, expense, freshbooks, invoice, outright, saas accounting, shoeboxed | 6 Responses

FastDue – Searching for Some Secret Sauce

FastDue – Searching for Some Secret Sauce

By Ben Kepes on February 23, 2009

There are two distinct product strategies that SaaS office productivity vendors can take. One is to encourage third parties to build complementary solutions to their own, and in this way create a multi-vendor ecosystem. In the business realm FreshBooks is a perfect example of this strategy. To succeed with this strategy, vendors need to have […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, bill.com, document execution, fastdue, freshbooks, invoicing, saas accounting, smb, sme | 1 Response

More Integration from those Charming Canucks

More Integration from those Charming Canucks

By Ben Kepes on February 17, 2009

I reviewed a little while ago IAC-EZ a start-up SaaS accounting offering that leverages the relatively huge and sophisticated FreshBooks customer base. Hot on the heels of that integration comes news that Clarity Accounting, another Canadian SaaS accounting company, has finished it’s integration with FreshBooks also To celebrate, those friendly FreshBooks people are offering Clarity […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, api, bootstrap, clarity, freeagent, freshbooks, iac-ez, integration, kashflow, saas accounting, saasu, smb, sme, xero, xpenser | 2 Responses

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

Imitation May be the Sincerest Form of Flattery, But All You Need Is Love

By Ben Kepes on February 10, 2009

The other day I noticed a number of comments on different CloudAve posts from someone purporting to be a user of a new invoicing web application. Upon further inspection I discovered that in fact the purported “independent user” was in fact an employee of the company. Suffice it to say that I’ll not be spending […]

Posted in Marketing, Strategy | Tagged astroturfing, customers, evangelist, freshbooks, invoicera, marketing | 7 Responses

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