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Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

By Ben Kepes on July 30, 2012

Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique and questioning, Xero’s events instead ring to the sound of hand-clapping

Posted in Application Software, Business | Tagged accounting, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, myob, New Zealand, Public company, rod drury, sage, trademe, xero

CCH Acquires Acclipse Limited–Accounting Vertical Gets Converged

CCH Acquires Acclipse Limited–Accounting Vertical Gets Converged

By Ben Kepes on July 13, 2012

Big news in the accounting space with the announcement that CCH, a division of the international group Wolters Kluwer is acquiring software vendor Acclipse. Acclipse sells practice management software under the iFirm brand, and announced a few months ago the intention to roll out a client side accounting solution. Acclipse

Posted in Business | Tagged acclipse, Australasia, CCH, google, myob, New Zealand, Practice Management, Wolter Kluwer

Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

By Ben Kepes on March 29, 2012

Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have to provide for multi-currency. In a post discussing this AccMan says that; As things stand today, […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged cloud computing, currency, kashflow, multi currency, myob, quickbooks, software as a service, twinfield, xero

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

By Ben Kepes on February 1, 2012

Exciting news today from Xero ahead of their user conference tomorrow that spans two important announcements. I’ll cover them individually. $20M Raised from Existing Shareholders Existing shareholders have reinvested to the aggregate tune of $20M. Sam Morgan, Sam Knowles, Craig Winkler and Peter Thiel’s fund Valar Ventures have all taken

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged accounting, craig winkler, LiveMigrate, myob, peter thiel, rod drury, saasu, xero

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

By Ben Kepes on January 5, 2012

It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its home market of Australia and New Zealand, MYOB is facing a small, but growing, and increasingly […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Australasia, cloud computing, myob, New Zealand, quicktime, software as a service, xero

SaaS Accounting Roundup

SaaS Accounting Roundup

By Ben Kepes on November 21, 2011

I’ve been travelling for the past couple of weeks and haven’t kept up to date with news from the SaaS accounting companies that I usually watch closely. Here’s a summary of stuff that’s happened of late. Quick general disclosure though, I have consulted to a number of the companies below – more information here. Xero […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged brightpearl, intacct, intuit, myob, netsuite, quickbooks, software as a service, xero

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

MYOB Goes SaaS…. Again

MYOB Goes SaaS…. Again

By Ben Kepes on March 18, 2010

I wrote almost a couple of years ago now about MYOB’s (see disclosure statement) first foray into the world of SaaS. I wasn’t overly impressed, saying at the time that: MYOB has the experience, the money and the clout to bring a product to market with the features that users need. Under this measure MYOB […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged myob, saasu, xero | 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

SaaS, Accounting, Microsoft Money and Hyperbole.

By Ben Kepes on November 30, 2009

Over on Accounting Web, a right royal stoush was started when Aqilla’s Hugh Scantlebury wrote an op ed piece opining what the withdrawal of Microsoft’s Office Accounting product means and, more importantly, what is behind the move. For those who need the history, Microsoft discontinued its Office Accounting product line, having determined that; existing free […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged accy2, intuit, ipp, kashflow, microsoft office accounting, myob, sage, xero | 5 Responses

Your Business Cloud – Holy Grail Anyone?

Your Business Cloud – Holy Grail Anyone?

By Ben Kepes on October 14, 2009

I’m a cloud evangelist from what I believe is a totally pragmatic perspective – I believe the cloud in general, and SaaS in particular, deliver significant added value merely by virtue of the fact that they’re connected, connectable and able to leverage aggregate knowledge. I’m not however completely dogmatic. While I understand the arguments for […]

Posted in General, Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, myob, premier, smb, sme, your business online | 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

Xero Announces Second Funding Round

By Ben Kepes on April 6, 2009

Xero has just announced its second funding round – they’re raising NZD23.2 million to enable a further scaling of their business internationally. This fundraising will be priced at $0.90 per share being a roughly 5% premium on the 5 day weighted avergae share price, but a 10% discount on that paid by the initial shareholders […]

Posted in General, Strategy | Tagged accy2, myob, xero | 2 Responses

Old-timers Getting SaaSy

By Ben Kepes on April 3, 2009

I’m always looking for interesting tales that show the backroom moves of incumbent players manoeuvring into SaaS plays. My team of intel gatherers have picked up an interesting story along these lines. Late last year Michael Jackson, the ex-chairman of Sage, tried to buy UK SaaS accounting player KashFlow for £2.3m. At the time KashFlow […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, aim, incumbent, intuit, isv, kashflow, michael jackson, myob, saas, sage | 4 Responses

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

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