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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

Online Finance – Rigid Segmentation Doesn’t Work

Online Finance – Rigid Segmentation Doesn’t Work

By Ben Kepes on February 8, 2010

Recently ReadWriteWeb started a series taking a very high level look at online finance. One of the posts discussed the evolving online finance ecosystem. In the post, RWW editor Richard MacManus interviewed CEO of Xero (see disclosure), Rod Drury and repeated Drury’s assertion that online finance can be separated into four distinct types of markets: […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged accy2, freeagentcentral, iac-ez, intacct, intuit, mint, myob, netsuite, pocketsmith, quickbooks, sage, sap, success factors, xero | 4 Responses

Multi-Currency – The Maelstrom Continues

Multi-Currency – The Maelstrom Continues

By Ben Kepes on February 1, 2010

Disclosure – One of my specialties is accounting software – I quote half a dozen vendors in the below post, some of whom I have past or current consulting relationships with. Full disclosure of all my industry affiliations can be seen here. A little while ago I posted discussing the recent introduction of multi-currency functionality […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged accy2, financialforce, freeagentcentral, iac-ez, intacct, xero | 2 Responses

Xero Gets Direct Bank Feeds in the US (and elsewhere)

Xero Gets Direct Bank Feeds in the US (and elsewhere)

By Ben Kepes on January 26, 2010

US customers have been waiting for automated bank feeds from Xero for awhile now. In New Zealand, Australia and the UK Xero build relationships directly with the banks and many were waiting to see what strategy they would adopt in the US market. This morning Xero announced that they have entered into an agreement with […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, xero, yodlee

It’s Multi-Currency Month

It’s Multi-Currency Month

By Ben Kepes on January 19, 2010

I posted awhile ago when Xero rolled out multi-currency so it’s only fair to do a wrap up of the latest multi-currency entries. Both FreshBooks and FreeAgentCentral announced this month the availability of their multi currency functionality. The FreeAgent offering is really slick, including on the fly calculation of daily unrealized and realized gains and […]

Posted in Design | Tagged accy2, freeagentcentral, freshbooks, multi currency, xero | 3 Responses

Carry The One – E-Commerce Integration FTW

Carry The One – E-Commerce Integration FTW

By Ben Kepes on December 16, 2009

I’ve spoken many times before about the power of integration and what it can bring to businesses. I’ve also whined about the inefficiencies caused by separate, integrated services – one of my own businesses is a good example of this pain – having to receive e-commerce orders, manually enter them into and accounting package, manually […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged cre loaded, e-conomic, freshbooks, kashflow, magento, oscommerce, shopify, xero, zen cart

SaaS, Accounting, Microsoft Money and Hyperbole.

By Ben Kepes on November 30, 2009

Over on Accounting Web, a right royal stoush was started when Aqilla’s Hugh Scantlebury wrote an op ed piece opining what the withdrawal of Microsoft’s Office Accounting product means and, more importantly, what is behind the move. For those who need the history, Microsoft discontinued its Office Accounting product line, having determined that; existing free […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged accy2, intuit, ipp, kashflow, microsoft office accounting, myob, sage, xero | 5 Responses

MinuteDock Makes Every Minute Count

MinuteDock Makes Every Minute Count

By Ben Kepes on November 17, 2009

Services businesses life blood is their ability to track time. As such it could be argued that any accounting application that is focused on the services market should have time tracking built in as a core feature. Having used SaaS accounting application Xero for years and growing tired of copying and pasting hours from time […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, invoicing, minutedock, time tracking, xero | 1 Response

Billflo Powers (Almost) Seamless Invoicing

Billflo Powers (Almost) Seamless Invoicing

By Ben Kepes on November 12, 2009

Back in April I reviewed the newly launched service that billFLO provides. In their own words billFLO; billFLO focuses on eliminating invoicing friction for SMBs. We work with the likes of Quickbooks, Freshbooks, Less Accounting, Harvest and Blinksale to enable users to send and receive machine readable invoices straight into their accounting system. At the […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged accy2, anoowa, billflo, freshbooks, xero

The Customers Asked, Xero Answered. FreshBooks Integration…

The Customers Asked, Xero Answered. FreshBooks Integration…

By Ben Kepes on November 11, 2009

Go to market strategies are an intensely interesting topic of conversation. In the very early days of its existence, I was a little dubious with the strategy that Xero took – that is partnering with accounting practices and using them as the channel. I had several issues with that – the issues around revenue sharing, […]

Posted in General, Marketing, Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, freshbooks, xero | 3 Responses

Xero Goes Personal – This Changes the Game

Xero Goes Personal – This Changes the Game

By Ben Kepes on November 1, 2009

An announcement from Xero today that I’ve known about for awhile but not been able to discuss publicly. From the media release; Online small business accounting software provider Xero (XRO) will launch a personal money manager in early 2010. Xero Personal will allow consumers to have a complete view all aspects of their finances. They’ll […]

Posted in General, Small business | Tagged accy2, bnz, mint, pocketsmith, xero | 10 Responses

OAuth Beginning to Rock the World

OAuth Beginning to Rock the World

By Ben Kepes on October 21, 2009

OAuth, or Open Authentication is “an open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications”. Basically it’s a way to allow one web application to utilize another without the need for users to worry about pesky authentication keys or the like. It also allows for data […]

Posted in Design, Small business | Tagged Digg, flickr, freshbooks, google, Jaiku, Ma.gnolia, oauth, Plaxo, Pownce, twitter, xero, yahoo | 2 Responses

SaaS and Coffee – They’re Both All About Granularity

SaaS and Coffee – They’re Both All About Granularity

By Ben Kepes on September 29, 2009

It seems fitting for a morning post to include coffee themes – no doubt many are reading this post with a brew in hand, and in that spirit I’ll admit that I’m writing it with a supreme C4 Coffee long black sitting next to me. Xero (disclosure – Xero is a past client) announced yesterday […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged accy2, coffee, granularity, multi currency, tiered pricing, xero | 1 Response

Please Articulate the Value Add, Not the Substitution for SaaS

Please Articulate the Value Add, Not the Substitution for SaaS

By Ben Kepes on September 16, 2009

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 […]

Posted in General, Strategy | Tagged saas/s, saas/v, sosaas, value-add, xero | 3 Responses

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