FUD – Not Just the Domain of the Desktop Guys
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 […]
The Small Business Web – The Rising Tide of Integration
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 […]
Some Things Are Best Shoved Into a (Shoe)Box – FreshBooks, Outright and Shoeboxed
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 […]

Bootstrap/Outright – Review
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 […]