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Pearl Goes Bright, and Gets Some Cash

Pearl Goes Bright, and Gets Some Cash

By Ben Kepes on June 24, 2010

I’ve written before about Pearl, the UK based “mini-ERP” that just seems to do everything. I’ve always thought of it as the little engine that could, with a team of only five people they have managed to build a solution that covers the majority of bases that a real world business might need – stock, […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, pearl | 3 Responses

Pearl and Rapportive – Helping Email Become the Killer App (Again)

Pearl and Rapportive – Helping Email Become the Killer App (Again)

By Ben Kepes on March 23, 2010

A couple of weeks ago when I posted about the launch of the Google Apps Marketplace, I mentioned Appirio’s “PS Connect” offering that embedded contextual data from Appirio, within Gmail. At the time it was an interesting offering, but didn’t garner much attention given the noise that was building around the Marketplace itself. The other […]

Posted in Design | Tagged aggregation, CRM, email, pearl, rapportive

Channels – Direct or Partnered, Take Your Pick

Channels – Direct or Partnered, Take Your Pick

By Ben Kepes on August 12, 2009

I had a little online tete-a-tete with fellow SaaS commentator Dennis Howlett recently about market strategies for SaaS accounting companies. Dennis comes from an accountancy background and, from where I can stand at least, seems to have generally been supportive of vendors partnering with accountants as a major part of their go-to-market strategy. In his […]

Posted in Marketing, Strategy | Tagged accy2, channel partnerships, chris tanner, dennis howlett, marketing, pearl, professional bodies, rod drury, saas, smb, xero | 1 Response

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

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