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FreeAgent Eases Life for Freelancers and their Expenses Conundrum

FreeAgent Eases Life for Freelancers and their Expenses Conundrum

By Ben Kepes on January 24, 2012

Like many freelancers, I incur significant expenses in the course of my contracting work and have to on-charge these expenses to clients. Ideally I’d tick a box in my accounting application and that would allow that cost to flow through to a client invoice without me having to enter it in two places. One of […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged expense, freeagent, FreeAgent Central, invoice, xero

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

By Ben Kepes on January 5, 2012

It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its home market of Australia and New Zealand, MYOB is facing a small, but growing, and increasingly […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Australasia, cloud computing, myob, New Zealand, quicktime, software as a service, xero

SaaS Accounting Roundup

SaaS Accounting Roundup

By Ben Kepes on November 21, 2011

I’ve been travelling for the past couple of weeks and haven’t kept up to date with news from the SaaS accounting companies that I usually watch closely. Here’s a summary of stuff that’s happened of late. Quick general disclosure though, I have consulted to a number of the companies below – more information here. Xero […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged brightpearl, intacct, intuit, myob, netsuite, quickbooks, software as a service, xero

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

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes on October 26, 2011

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written about before, is a free […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged charles river ventures, cloud computing, freeagent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, saas, software as a service, wave accounting, xero | 1 Response

FreeAgent Nabs Series B

FreeAgent Nabs Series B

By Ben Kepes on September 13, 2011

News just in that UK SaaS accounting vendor FreeAgent has nabbed GBP2M in investment from SM Trust and Torch Partners. It’s an interesting development given the other two main players in the UK market, Xero and KashFlow are both currently well funded – Xero via an IPO and some subsequent private investment and KashFlow from […]

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship | Tagged Ed Molyneux, freeagent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, software as a service, xero

Salesforce for Quickbooks for Salesforce for Quickbooks….

Salesforce for Quickbooks for Salesforce for Quickbooks….

By Ben Kepes on September 9, 2011

Owning and running a bunch of small businesses, I have a real appreciation for just how important it is for SMBs to have a handle on their customers and deal flow – CRM, a concept foreign to many SMBs only a few years ago has become, with the growing importance of social media, a critical […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged CRM, Customer, customer relationship management, integration, intuit, quickbooks, salesforce.com, Small business, smb, sme, software as a service, xero

Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

Zoho Rounds Out Small Business Suite with Accounting App–Zoho Books

By Zoli Erdos on January 19, 2011

This morning Zoho, known for SMB focused SaaS offerings in the areas of productivity, collaboration, business processes launched an Accounting app: Zoho Books. I typically don’t do detailed product reviews, when I see the first good ones, will link to them – just a few points here and then let’s discuss how it rounds out […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Small business | Tagged accounting, business suite, CRM, erp, integration, intuit, quickbooks, Small business, smb, sme, xero, zoho, zoho books, zoho invoice | 3 Responses

On Bootstrapping. And Big Bucks. And Organic Growth

On Bootstrapping. And Big Bucks. And Organic Growth

By Ben Kepes on June 9, 2010

Recently there have been a few posts about growth through funding and growth through organic means. Tony Hsieh from Zappos told his tale of woe about the expectations of VC’s in terms of good exits. On the other hand, Sridhar Vembu, Founder of Zoho (disclosure – Zoho is exclusive sponsor of CloudAve) wrote an excellent […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged duane jackson, kashflow, sridhar vembu, tony hsieh, VC, xero, zappos, zoho | 4 Responses

Integration is Good… When You Actually Do It (Part Two)

Integration is Good… When You Actually Do It (Part Two)

By Ben Kepes on June 2, 2010

A month or so ago I wrote a post critical of the integration one vendor had made with the Google apps marketplace. Yesterday I was perusing Twitter when I came across this tweet: I’m actually a user of Xero for three of my businesses, so I was looking forward to seeing what their inclusion on […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged google, google apps, marketplace, xero | 1 Response

It’s All About Support – Granular Is Good

It’s All About Support – Granular Is Good

By Ben Kepes on May 3, 2010

The other day I had one of those nightmare situations that only those who are similarly detail-focused (some would say retentive) as myself can appreciate. Now I’m a stickler for detail – it really offends my sensibilities when things aren’t stacked in order, when things don’t match and, most of all, when the numbers in […]

Posted in Design, Small business, Strategy | Tagged paypal, support, twitter, xero

Differentiating in a Commoditized World: On Syncplicity and Expanz

Differentiating in a Commoditized World: On Syncplicity and Expanz

By Ben Kepes on April 27, 2010

At the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Allister Croll gave an excellent presentation, actually as an aside, Croll ran close to half of the Cloud Connect sessions and really did a sterling job of managing the conference. Anyway – in his session Croll was talking about the opportunities for investment in the cloud and […]

Posted in Design | Tagged allister croll, azure, expanz, iaas, microsoft, paas, rod drury, syncplicity, xero

Xero Now Hosted by MYOB

Xero Now Hosted by MYOB

By Ben Kepes on March 29, 2010

It’s not Friday, but it’s time for a Friday funny… A couple of years ago, Xero got hold of the URL relating to MYOB’s new (at that time) SaaS product Business Basics Online. I posted about it at the time saying: But in the craziest turn of the story, check out this link –www.businessbasicsonline.co.nz. Yes […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged accy2, myob, xero

Xero Personal – Is That It?

Xero Personal – Is That It?

By Ben Kepes on March 28, 2010

Six months ago Xero (see disclosure statement) announced that they’d be building a personal finance application to go with their business one. I was pleased at the time, in part because I believe the personal/business divide is an artificial one (see post here). This morning Xero flicked the switch on its long awaited personal edition […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, heaps, mint, pocketsmith, xero, xero persona | 4 Responses

Personal and Business Finance – Blurring the Lines

Personal and Business Finance – Blurring the Lines

By Ben Kepes on March 22, 2010

I posted a year or so ago that: the distinction between personal and business finance is pretty blurred It was a call for micro and small business accounting vendors to offer a personal finance service in the acknowledgement that most micro businesses have an increasingly blurred line between personal and business expenses. As I said […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, personal finance, xero | 6 Responses

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