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Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

By Ben Kepes on November 9, 2012

My background and entry into the technology industry came from my experience wrangling tech for a number of different small and mid-sized businesses. I’ve seen first hand just how much work is involved in tailoring discrete solutions into something that actually meets the specific needs of the business. This is even more difficult for resource […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Application programming interface, CloudComputing, Extract transform load, IBM, quickbooks, salesforce.com, SnapLogic, software as a service, venturebeat | 1 Response

Cloud Case Study–BlueWolf

Cloud Case Study–BlueWolf

By Ben Kepes on October 5, 2012

While at DreamForce recently I took the opportunity to sit down and talk with BlueWolf a business process and strategy consultancy that does a lot of work with mid sized and enterprise customers helping them move their IT to a more agile way of doing things. BlueWolf has some 3000 customers across tech, financial services […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged #df12, appexchange, appirio, BlueWolf, cloud computing, dreamforce, openair, PSA, quickbooks, salesforce.com

Levion and the Promise of Hybrid Accounting Software

Levion and the Promise of Hybrid Accounting Software

By Ben Kepes on September 14, 2012

As the accounting software industry moves to a general acceptance of the fact that customers demand the sort of benefits that cloud application bring, there are two distinct approaches vnedors are making; Pure-play cloud vendors (FreeAgent, Xero etc) build pure Saas applications and do away with any need for desktop

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Application programming interface, intuit, intuit partner platform, quickbooks, software as a service, user interface, windows | 2 Responses

Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

By Ben Kepes on August 30, 2012

On my first ever trip to the Bay area, six or so years ago, I attended the, now defunct, Office 2.0 conference. At the event I moderated a panel looking at what Accounting 2.0 actually meant and the value it could drive. The panel was a who’s who of the space and included folks from […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged accy2, FreshBook, intuit, intuit partner platform, invoice, mike mcderment, quickbooks, Small Business Web, xero

Rumors Suggest Xero to Announce Acquisitions at Xerocon

Rumors Suggest Xero to Announce Acquisitions at Xerocon

By Ben Kepes on July 16, 2012

Xero is holding it’s annual Australian conference in Melbourne this week and in keeping with the norm for tech companies, we can expect some important announcements to be made at the event. I’ve received multiple notes from people speculating about potential news including acquisitions – some likely, some less so.

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged quickbooks, rod drury, Sam Morgan, software as a service, Vaughan Rowsell, vend, WorkFlowMax, xero | 1 Response

Buying Cloud Accounting Software?

Buying Cloud Accounting Software?

By Zoli Erdos on April 25, 2012

Fellow Enterprise Irregular Brian Sommer is doing  a webinar this Wednesday on The Top 6 Things You Didn’t Know About Cloud Accounting Systems (But Should!). in cooperation with FinancialForce. Brian will cover a number of buying considerations and trends that are being reflected in new buyer perspectives for financial accounting software. The software market is undergoing […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged accounting, Cloud Accounting, cloud computing, quickbooks, saas accounting, Small business, software as a service, web conferencing

Xero Nabs Intuit Exec

Xero Nabs Intuit Exec

By Ben Kepes on April 24, 2012

I’ve long wondered how Xero will execute upon its North American opportunity – after all North America is the real goal for the company, and also where they face the biggest hurdles to success. I’ve even been roundly criticized for articulating this question I’ve spent some time with Xero’s US president Jamie Sutherland who seems […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged accounting, cloud computing, intuit, intuit partner platform, quickbooks, software as a service, United States, xero

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

Brightpearl Delivers in a Multi Channel World

Brightpearl Delivers in a Multi Channel World

By Ben Kepes on February 29, 2012

Nearly three years ago in a fit of frustration I wrote a post detailing what I considered to be a relatively obvious set of requirements for a small manufacturing business I am a shareholder in. To recap – we currently use a bunch of disconnected systems because there is no

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged brightpearl, customer relationship management, Ebay, Electronic commerce, kashflow, netsuite, quickbooks, software as a service

MinuteDock Launches on Intuit’s Partner Platform

MinuteDock Launches on Intuit’s Partner Platform

By Ben Kepes on January 25, 2012

Exciting times today for the team from MinuteDock (more on them here) the neat little time trapping application from my own hometown, Wellington, New Zealand. Formerly a product that was primarily intended for users of the Xero accounting product, MinuteDock is broadening its approach and is now tightly integrated with

Posted in Application Software | Tagged freshbooks, intuit partner platform, invoice, minutedock, quickbooks, QuickBooks Online, xero

Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

By Ben Kepes on January 18, 2012

Now this is an interesting piece of scuttlebutt that I was alerted to via a private message. It seems that Intuit have quietly begun pushing QuickBooks users who have “outgrown” their own solutions on to Intacct. This is particularly interesting given the fact that Intuit, a venerable provider with a

Posted in Application Software, Business | Tagged Dan Druker, Initial public offering, intacct, intuit, netsuite, quickbooks | 1 Response

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

Salesforce for Quickbooks for Salesforce for Quickbooks….

Salesforce for Quickbooks for Salesforce for Quickbooks….

By Ben Kepes on September 9, 2011

Owning and running a bunch of small businesses, I have a real appreciation for just how important it is for SMBs to have a handle on their customers and deal flow – CRM, a concept foreign to many SMBs only a few years ago has become, with the growing importance of social media, a critical […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged CRM, Customer, customer relationship management, integration, intuit, quickbooks, salesforce.com, Small business, smb, sme, software as a service, xero

Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?

Sage in the Cloud, but is it too little too late?

By David Terrar on January 28, 2011

Last week Sage, the UK’s biggest accountancy software supplier, finally released their first real online accounting solution.  It looks like a proper SaaS or Cloud offering, unlike the hosted Online 50 product sold through a few resellers from 6 years ago, or their previous failed attempt of SageLive in 2009.  I would argue that because […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged accounting, accy2, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, quickbooks, saas, sage, software as a service

Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

By Zoli Erdos on January 19, 2011

This morning Zoho, known for SMB focused SaaS offerings in the areas of productivity, collaboration, business processes launched an Accounting app: Zoho Books. I typically don’t do detailed product reviews, when I see the first good ones, will link to them – just a few points here and then let’s discuss how it rounds out […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged accounting, business suite, CRM, erp, integration, intuit, quickbooks, Small business, smb, sme, xero, zoho, zoho books, zoho invoice | 3 Responses

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