Buying Cloud Accounting Software?
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 […]
Twinfield change partners for a new dance
I was delighted to hear, early yesterday, that cloud accounting software provider Twinfield was acquired by Wolters Kluwer. I have to disclose that my company, D2C, have been Twinfield’s UK partner since 2005 and so we have a vested interest in the success of the platform and some great customers and partnerships that have come […]
Merchant’s Mirror – Review
Accounting 2.0 at CloudAve In an ongoing series of reviews and analysis pieces, CloudAve is taking a deep look into accounting software for the new world. See the other posts at this tag Introduction & Background Merchant’s Mirror had the stereotypical genesis when a couple of guys, sick of using an installed application for […]
Fixed Assets an Important Piece of the Puzzle
According to some informed insiders, a fixed asset register is the second most requested features for one of the big three desktop accounting software companies, beaten only by advanced and highly flexible reporting . I’ve never really worked out why fixed assets aren’t covered by the incumbents, by my way of thinking it’s a legacy […]
Solo Mixes and Matches a Complete Brew
Of late I’ve come across a number of SaaS accounting products that offer themselves in a white-label version. The value for the vendor is obvious, they stand to gain from the extra reach of a partner, without having to market the product themselves. It also doesn’t get in the way of any specific marketing that […]
Ubikwiti – 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 Earlier this week a post of mine generated some very heated exchanges, both public and private. As I […]
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. […]
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 […]
All’s Fair in Love and War – Ubikwiti Pushing Hard
I came across a press release (and oh how I love those) from SaaS business software platform Ubikwiti. In it they’re pushing hard to move users from Xero (or those considering using Xero) by saying; Why Pay $$s to Xero When You Can Have Ubikwiti for Zero $$s? From what I can see their offer […]
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 […]
What Does “Fully Featured” Really Mean?
In my ongoing Accounting 2.0 series (tag here) I’ve been looking at the way SaaS accounting vendors describe their products. A vast number of vendors bandy terms like “fully featured package around”. Often times this is used to describe a product that fulfils a very discrete subset of the accounting function. Recently some comments around […]
33% Growth in 50 Days
I’ll post more about this later but I just wanted to share the just-announced fact that Xero has added 1000 customers in the past 50 days. Bear in mind that their previous base was 3000 customers. CEO Rod Drury said that; Xero attributes part of its acceleration this year to two main factors: • In […]
More Integration from those Charming Canucks
I reviewed a little while ago IAC-EZ a start-up SaaS accounting offering that leverages the relatively huge and sophisticated FreshBooks customer base. Hot on the heels of that integration comes news that Clarity Accounting, another Canadian SaaS accounting company, has finished it’s integration with FreshBooks also To celebrate, those friendly FreshBooks people are offering Clarity […]
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 […]
Adding Value (and Product) to Inventory
The number of SaaS accounting offerings out there is growing by the day already the CloudAve AccountingThread runs to well over a dozen product reviews (as well as a bunch of guest posts and analysis pieces – check it out here). Despite this impressive showing, and perhaps indicative of the fact that the vendors are […]
