
MinuteDock Makes Every Minute Count
Services businesses life blood is their ability to track time. As such it could be argued that any accounting application that is focused on the services market should have time tracking built in as a core feature. Having used SaaS accounting application Xero for years and growing tired of copying and pasting hours from time […]

The Challenge of Offline Saas Revisited
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 […]

PostalMethods – Business process Automation or Gilded Lily?
I wrote an unusually abrupt post a year or so ago about PostalMethods a service that automates the sending of postal mail. At the time I merely looks at part of the offering and my doubt was expressed in no uncertain terms by saying; WTF? Postal Methods connects to the business via API to output […]

IAC-EZ Version 1.4 – All About You
Heather Villa, CEO of IAC-EZ (review here) gave me a sneak preview of their latest release which is full of new functionality. There’s a few things that stood out for me that I’ll detail below. I talked about the changes with Heather who told me that they spent a lot of time looking at what […]

From Shoebox to Paperless, 22nd Century (?) Expense Management
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. […]

FastDue – Searching for Some Secret Sauce
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 […]