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  • Sage and Zoho go SaaS Accounting–Quick Insight

    January 19, 2011

    Business
    Software as a Service, zoho books, Zoho Invoice, Zoho Office Suite
     

    A couple of announcements (or in one case a leak) this week for those who follow the SaaS accounting space – both Zoho and Sage introduced products to the market. TechCrunch broke the news that Zoho is introducing an…

  • SaaS, Accounting, Microsoft Money and Hyperbole.

    November 30, 2009

    Uncategorized
    freshbooks, intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, kashflow, Microsoft, sage, service, Web application
     

    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…

  • Is the Cloud Going to Kill Conventional SaaS?

    November 11, 2009

    Uncategorized
     

    Longhaul flights are sometimes useful in that they allow one to ruminate over some of the issues that the daily deluge of data doesn’t allow. On this partiuclar flight I’ve been ruminating over a post I read recently from…

  • Your Business Cloud – Holy Grail Anyone?

    October 14, 2009

    Uncategorized
     

    I’m a cloud evangelist from what I believe is a totally pragmatic perspective – I believe the cloud in general, and SaaS in particular, deliver significant added value merely by virtue of the fact that they’re connected, connectable and…

  • Making Information Like Avatars… An Open Web for Business Data

    September 9, 2009

    Design
     

    Recently I attended the Wellington installment of the WordCamp series – WordCamps are “conferences that focus on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core…

  • The self professed most humble man alive gets shown the door: Sage’s CEO Kelly is no longer

    September 3, 2018

    Business
     

    A few years ago I attended Sage’s global user conference in New Orleans alongside a small group of industry analysts and media folks. The event was my first experience with Sage’s then freshly minted CEO, Stephen Kelly. Kelly, who…

  • Ingram Micro wants to help service providers avoid the most ridiculous barriers to selling cloud

    January 24, 2018

    Business
     

    It might come as a surprise to some people but one of the biggest barriers to traditional service providers moving to a model of selling cloud is the antiquity of their backoffice systems. I’ve spent some time consulting to…

  • Joinesty wants to keep your email secure, no matter how many dodgy services you sign up for

    November 2, 2017

    Business
     

    We’ve all done it, right? Gone to an interesting looking website and signed up for a free account for some exciting (or so it seemed) new service. Five minutes later, we decide the service isn’t quite so exciting and…

  • Rancher, joining everyone else, de-emphasizes Docker and jumps in with K8S

    September 26, 2017

    Business
     

    Oh my, the news keeps coming thick and fast. Rancher is a company founded by cloud royalty. Sheng Liang and Shannon Williams last gig, Cloud.com, was acquired by Citrix, rebranded to CloudStack and then divested once Citrix realized it…

  • A reinvigorated FreshBooks takes a rare funding round to fuel more growth

    July 18, 2017

    Business
     

    Back in the early days of cloud accounting, before Xero had enjoyed its meteoric rise to fame and Intuit had finally agreed that cloud was a thing and applied hyper-innovation to its QuickBooks product, a plucky vendor from north…

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