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Saasu Drops Freemium–Some Users Balk at the Change

Saasu Drops Freemium–Some Users Balk at the Change

By Ben Kepes on January 8, 2013

On New Years Eve, while on a holiday skiing trip in the French Alps, expat Aussie and Clouderati ringleader Sam Johnston wrote a series of tweets exclaiming his anger about a change that cloud accounting vendor Saasu had made to its terms and conditions. earlier this year, a Saasu blog post advised customers that it […]

Posted in Business | Tagged cloud computing, google, james urquhart, Lance Walley, New Years Eve, saasu, sam johnston, software as a service

Acclipse Rolls Out Client Side Application (Again)

Acclipse Rolls Out Client Side Application (Again)

By Ben Kepes on March 12, 2012

Acclipse is a New Zealand based accounting practice management solution that I’ve covered previously, specifically when it announced eventually ill-fated partnerships with Xero (covered here) and Saasu (covered here). Acclipse’e product, iFirm is an integrated suite of online products that boasts over 2,000 firms and 10,000 licensed users of its

Posted in Application Software | Tagged acclipse, Accountancy, BankLink, cloud computing, iFirm, New Zealand, saasu, WorkFlowMax, xero

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

By Ben Kepes on February 1, 2012

Exciting news today from Xero ahead of their user conference tomorrow that spans two important announcements. I’ll cover them individually. $20M Raised from Existing Shareholders Existing shareholders have reinvested to the aggregate tune of $20M. Sam Morgan, Sam Knowles, Craig Winkler and Peter Thiel’s fund Valar Ventures have all taken

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged accounting, craig winkler, LiveMigrate, myob, peter thiel, rod drury, saasu, xero

SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler

SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler

By Ben Kepes on December 20, 2011

In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating. In the report we advised organizations to look at applications that; • Have significant interaction with external applications or services • Are

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud, cloud computing, saasu, sap, SAP AG, singapore, software as a service

Flawed Analysis–On Clouds “Playing Nice”

Flawed Analysis–On Clouds “Playing Nice”

By Ben Kepes on October 28, 2011

The other day someone alerted me to a new report put out by IT news that lauds itself as a “technical study of the integration and extension options offered by the largest 20 software-as-a-service vendors serving the Australian enterprise.” The report looks at a few different dimensions including; Can I get my data in and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged atlassian, Australia, cloud, confluence, integration, ITnews, jira, PayCycle, saas, saasu, successfactors, taleo, xero

MYOB Goes SaaS…. Again

MYOB Goes SaaS…. Again

By Ben Kepes on March 18, 2010

I wrote almost a couple of years ago now about MYOB’s (see disclosure statement) first foray into the world of SaaS. I wasn’t overly impressed, saying at the time that: MYOB has the experience, the money and the clout to bring a product to market with the features that users need. Under this measure MYOB […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged myob, saasu, xero | 1 Response

For SMBs, Automation is King. Saasu Delivers Some

For SMBs, Automation is King. Saasu Delivers Some

By Ben Kepes on March 11, 2010

Small and medium businesses are inherently time poor. As such any tool that automates their processes is a good thing. Those who aren’t involved in business would look at automatic bank feeds (such as those offered by Xero) as a fun toy, but little more than that. This fails to appreciate just how much of […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged saasu, xero

On Pricing, Demand and Critical Mass

On Pricing, Demand and Critical Mass

By Ben Kepes on August 3, 2009

Recently I received a press release from SaaS accounting vendor e-conomic (CloudAve review here) announcing the release of a new pricing structure. Their various pricing plans are dropping by a few pounds a month. Meanwhile they’ve increased the maximum transaction number to allow more companies to work within their small business plan. Commenting on the […]

Posted in General, Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, e-conomic, pricing, saas, saasu, xero | 1 Response

More Multi-Currency and Product Pricing Discussion

By Ben Kepes on June 22, 2009

Hot on the heels of the announcement yesterday by Xero about multi-currency, I received an email from someone commenting about some multi-currency and pricing issues around Saasu, another SaaS accounting product. Saasu have been developing multi-currency for awhile and the implementation of this feature had apparently been delayed for a period of time. On top […]

Posted in Analysis, General, Strategy | Tagged accy2, file storage, multi currency, saas, saasu, smb, sme, xero | 8 Responses

SaaS Accounting – Six (or Seven) Months On

By Ben Kepes on May 4, 2009

I’ve been running my Accounting 2.0 series since the very first day of CloudAve – now, seven months on, it seems a good time to look back on what I’ve seen. In the past seven months I’ve reviewed around 25 SaaS accounting products, and written 30 or 40 analysis pieces looking at accounting 2.0. I’ve […]

Posted in Small business | Tagged accy2, craig winkler, intuit, michael jackson, myob, saas, saasu, sage, smb, sme, xero | 7 Responses

Accounting and E-Commerce a Needs Analysis

By Ben Kepes on March 18, 2009

Integration is not just a conceptual topic that I talk about for pleasure – it’s a way to solve real world problems and inefficiencies. The best way to espouse a concept however is by way of example so I thought I’d provide a good one. I was in the process of writing an RFP for […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged ecommerce, erp, integration, saasu, slink, stock, virtuemart | 4 Responses

More Integration from those Charming Canucks

More Integration from those Charming Canucks

By Ben Kepes on February 17, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, api, bootstrap, clarity, freeagent, freshbooks, iac-ez, integration, kashflow, saas accounting, saasu, smb, sme, xero, xpenser | 2 Responses

Adding Value (and Product) to Inventory

Adding Value (and Product) to Inventory

By Ben Kepes on February 13, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged accy2, api, erp, inventory, product, saas accounting, saasu, smb, stock | 1 Response

You Want Nimble? - SaaS Delivers It

You Want Nimble? – SaaS Delivers It

By Ben Kepes on November 24, 2008

As a (partial) answer to the massive financial calamity hitting it’s economy – the UK has decided to drop it’s VAT rate from 17.5% to 15% effective in a matter of only a few days. In a traditional software environment this would be a nightmare – having to get patches out by mail or auto-update […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged saasu, xero | 7 Responses

Saasu - Review

Saasu – Review

By Ben Kepes on November 13, 2008

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 […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged accy2, saas accounting, saasu | 9 Responses

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