
A Vertical That’s Starting To Make Sense
Xero (CloudAve review here) has just announced a new product line – Xero accountants edition. In essence XAE is a product that allows an accountants office to manage all of their clients from one place. It also allows accountants to on-sell, or package as part of their service, the full Xero product or just a […]

Sage Upping the SaaS Ante
We’ve been waiting for a really compelling on-demand accounting offering from one of the big boys. Thus far we’ve had Intuit deliver QuickBooks Online (CloudAve review here) which got a "nice try but back to the classroom" grade. MYOB delivered the first generation of the BusinessBasics Online product (Diversity review here) which at best gets […]

Zoho Invoice – 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 below: Accounting 2.0 – Thought Leaders and Product Reviews FreshBooks – Helping SMBs Ride Out the Storm Less Accounting – Review FreshBooks – Review Free […]
The Future of Accounting
As part of our Accounting 2.0 series here on CloudAve, we reached out to some accounting software visionaries to give us their take on the future of accounting/business software and how the eco system would look five or ten years out. Xero is an almost two year old SaaS accounting player that has visions of […]

Clarity Accounting – 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 below; Accounting 2.0 – Thought Leaders and Product Reviews FreshBooks – Helping SMBs Ride Out the Storm Less Accounting – Review FreshBooks – Review […]

QuickBooks Online Edition – 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 below; Accounting 2.0 – Thought Leaders and Product Reviews FreshBooks – Helping SMBs Ride Out the Storm Less Accounting – Review FreshBooks – Review […]

Saasu – 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 previous posts below; Accounting 2.0 – Thought Leaders and Product Reviews FreshBooks – Helping SMBs Ride Out the Storm Less Accounting – Review FreshBooks – Review Free […]

Xero – Review
Introduction & Background Xero is a New Zealand based company that publicly listed last year on the NZ stock exchange. It was founded by serial entrepreneur Rod Drury and in a short space of time has built an impressive team of developers, marketers and product specialists. Currently Xero is available in the UK, Australia and […]
It's Not Size That Matters; It's How You Use It
As part of our deep look into Accounting 2.0, we approached accounting software thought leaders to get their vision for the future of accounting software. Our first guest post is from May Chu, Marketing Director for Habitsoft, Inc. the creator of Clarity Accounting. Prior to entering the SaaS software space, May trained and worked as […]

Less Accounting – Review
Introduction & Background Less Accounting’s mission in life is to make book keeping as easy and simple as possible. Less goes out on a limb, saying that they’ll change the accounting landscape in the same way that Basecamp has changed the project management landscape. Whether or not they subvert the industry as much as they […]

FreshBooks – Helping SMBs Ride Out the Storm
Image via CrunchBase FreshBooks CEO Mike McDerment was interviewed this morning on Fox Businesses’ show Money for Breakfast. Mike’s a great guy and FreshBooks is a really interesting business their mission is to enable SMBs to do better – be more aware of their money flows, become more profitable, increase revenue and drive down costs. […]
Accounting 2.0 – Thought Leaders and Product Reviews
Accounting as an enabler for small and medium businesses is a topic I am passionate about. At the recent Office 2.0 conference I moderated a panel looking more broadly at money management in a 2.0 world. The video is reproduced below for those who haven’t seen it. (Thanks to Veodia for the vid) Given my […]