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A New Acronym, But This Time It’s (Maybe) Justified

By Ben Kepes on May 7, 2009

FreshBooks (CloudAve coverage here) have just created a whole new acronym, SaaN or Software as a Network. While I’m kind of ambivalent about the nomenclature I’m totally excited about what it means. FreshBooks has noticed something among the way its 700000 or so customers work and that is that data, in their cases invoices, hop […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged accy2, billflo, freshbooks, saan, saas, smb, sme | 3 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

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

*Superstars* of SaaS

By Ben Kepes on April 24, 2009

I woke at an ungodly hour yesterday morning my time (2am from memory) in order to take part in what was dubbed a session with the superstars of SaaS. Of course being merely the moderator I wasn’t included in that group – but I was privileged to be able to moderate the session that included some […]

Posted in General | Tagged accy2, clarity, cloudworks, freshbooks, iacez, saas, shoeboxed, sme | 1 Response

billFLO – Helping the World Communicate

billFLO – Helping the World Communicate

By Ben Kepes on April 20, 2009

It’s a big week for product launches – and a busy week for those commenting on the accounting software space. billFLO is this week launching its offering which it claims is the first low cost solution providing electronic invoice exchange for small businesses. Think of it as EDI for the rest of us… billFLO was […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, billflo, blinksale, freshbooks, harvest, integration, less accounting, oaccounts, quickbooks, smb, sme

IAC-EZ Version 1.4 – All About You

IAC-EZ Version 1.4 – All About You

By Ben Kepes on April 14, 2009

Heather Villa, CEO of IAC-EZ (review here) gave me a sneak preview of their latest release which is full of new functionality. There’s a few things that stood out for me that I’ll detail below. I talked about the changes with Heather who told me that they spent a lot of time looking at what […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, expense, iac professionals, iacez, intergation, invoicing, smb, sme | 1 Response

On Aggregation (A Recurring Theme)

By Ben Kepes on April 1, 2009

I’ve talked about BeeBole a number of times before – not because I have any special relationship with the company (I don’t) but because I really like their ethos of building an aggregated platform for business applications. An environment for an ecosystem if you like. I like widgets, I like flexibility and I like simple […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged aggregation, beebole, smb, sme, ubikwiti

Standards - The Opposing View

Standards – The Opposing View

By Ben Kepes on March 31, 2009

Eric posted yesterday looking at why the adoption of standards can be a bad thing. Rather than discussing his post in the context of the recent Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum debacle (I’m sure calling it a debacle will get people from both sides of the divide fired up – but you have to admit it […]

Posted in Design, Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, edi, smb, sme, standards | 2 Responses

Building Dialogue is the Most Important Thing

Building Dialogue is the Most Important Thing

By Ben Kepes on March 23, 2009

KashFlow recently announced its “HealthCheck”, a very simple report that is based on three areas of a businesses financial data and gives customers a score based on their performance. By KashFlow’s own account it is a simple introduction of a concept – as CEO Duane Jackson said to me; The report isn’t intended to be […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged aggregate, benchmark, benchmarking, kashflow, smb, sme | 5 Responses

The Small Business Web – The Rising Tide of Integration

By Ben Kepes on March 17, 2009

I alluded yesterday to some stirrings in terms of small business SaaS ecosystems. I didn’t post specifics yesterday as the initiative was somewhat stealth. However at the SXSW conference, attendees were advised of The Small Business Web, a cooperative currently made up of the following vendors. BatchBlue Software Social CRM for Small Business FreshBooks Painless […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged accy2, api, batchblue, freshbooks, integration, mailchimp, outright, shoeboxed, smb, sme

Solo Mixes and Matches a Complete Brew

Solo Mixes and Matches a Complete Brew

By Ben Kepes on March 6, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Design, Marketing, Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, hmrc, kashflow, mitrefinch, saas accounting, smb, sme, solo | 3 Responses

Ubikwiti - Review

Ubikwiti – Review

By Ben Kepes on March 4, 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 Earlier this week a post of mine generated some very heated exchanges, both public and private. As I […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged accy2, integration, rss, saas accounting, smb, sme, ubikwiti, widget | 4 Responses

FastDue – Searching for Some Secret Sauce

FastDue – Searching for Some Secret Sauce

By Ben Kepes on February 23, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, bill.com, document execution, fastdue, freshbooks, invoicing, saas accounting, smb, sme | 1 Response

Business ByNetSuite vs Business ByDesign, Take Two

Business ByNetSuite vs Business ByDesign, Take Two

By Zoli Erdos on February 19, 2009

NetSuite, provider  of Web-based integrated business systems for the SMB market is going after bigger fish: the leader in Enterprise Software, SAP. The aptly named Business ByNetsuite program guarantees at least 50% savings to current SAP R/3 customers relative to  – watch this! – the annual maintenance fees they are now paying to SAP.  Yes, […]

Posted in Enterprise, Marketing, Small business | Tagged a1s, bbd, bs7, Business ByDesign, business bynetsuite, Business Suite 7, ByD, enterprise software, marketing, netsuite, saas, SaaS suite, sap, sap byd, small business software, smb, sme, software maintenance | 1 Response

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

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