
Please Articulate the Value Add, Not the Substitution for SaaS
Over on the Xero blog, co-founder Hamish Edwards is running series with the not-too-modest title “The Future of Accounting is Online”. In the first post Hamish introduces the first key theme for accountants to look for in a software solution “Access to the clients’ accounting systems and the ability to collaborate in real-time, anytime, anywhere […]

Six One Way, Half a Dozen the Other – Traditional Vendors and SaaS
Someone sent me an email the other day alerting me to the fact that Accomplish, a vendor of desktop small business accounting software, has just announced that it’ll be providing a SaaS product. Nothing overly interesting in that, but what was interesting was reading the interview with Accomplish General Manager Grant Hewson and seeing the […]
SaaS and Traditional Software Vendors
More and more we see big players dipping their toes in the SaaS waters. In recent months we’ve seen SaaS related movements from Microsoft, SAP, Sage and many others. All of this has led me to revisit a series of posts I wrote 18 months or so ago on ISVs moving to SaaS. I’ve always […]