Tag Archives: accounting

18/11/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Wave Goes Payroll

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Wave Accounting, a vendor that is hoping to turn SMB accounting software on its head by delivering a product at a zero price point and monetizing through the smart utilization of aggregate data. The jury is out as to SMBs appetite for their data being used,

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04/11/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Easing the On Ramp–Xero Makes a Logical Move, Three Years On

By Ben Kepes

Around three years ago, before some “heated” discussions made communication between us a little strained, I spent a fair amount of time talking with Xero CEO Rod Drury around the Cloud/SaaS market generally. Those conversations started well before the Xero IPO when he was still shopping little more than a

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16/08/2011 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Sage bids for MYOB. An Uber Alliance in the Making?

By Ben Kepes

Breaking news just to hand that UK accounting vendor Sage is considering making a bid for Australasian vendor MYOB. Sage has long had a strategy of growth by acquisition and tends to let the acquired company continue to run independently – this has led to some confusion in the past.

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05/08/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

QuoteRoller Eases the Quote to Contract Process

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I discover a little application that really reminds me just how enabling technology can be, specially for small and medium businesses. This enablement is powered by varying degrees of some different themes – the cloud, mobile computing, ubiquitous internet access and the world of APIs. It’s

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29/07/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Reporting Season–NetSuite and Intacct go Stratospheric

By Ben Kepes

In these strained economic times with businesses retrenching and pulling back on non-essential projects, one could have expected to see the reported numbers for software companies also trend downwards. Right? Well not if a couple of recent results from SaaS accounting firms are anything to go by. Intacct Firstly Intacct,

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21/06/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreeAgent Bags Barclays Bank.

By Ben Kepes

One of the many SaaS Accounting vendors I keep an eye on is FreeAgent – a company I’ve written about many times in the past. FreeAgent are a UK based vendor that are, quite rightly, focusing on their home market rather than getting all starry eyed about opportunities over the

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24/05/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Xero and the US Market

By Ben Kepes

In the four or so years since Xero launched with great fanfare in New Zealand, moved on to Australia and gained a modicum of visibility in the UK, many of us have been waiting to see what would happen in he REAL market, that of the US. While I personally

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19/04/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

mobileAgent makes Expense Reporting Fun (Among Other Things)

By Ben Kepes

Expat Kiwi developer Nic Wise is a smart guy who’s also something of a tinkerer. One of the projects that benefitted from his tinkering is mobileAgent, a lovely little application that give iOS users the ability to do a bunch of their accounting work while on the road (so long

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25/03/2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

On SaaS Pricing, Functionality and Risk Aversion

By Ben Kepes

Lots of SaaS accounting news at the moment – from Saasu, Xero and MYOB. Firstly Australian SaaS accounting vendor Saasu (more on them here) recently announced a change to its pricing. Already one of the most economically priced offerings in the marketplace (and I use those words purposely to differentiate

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15/11/2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Is There Such a Thing as a Free Lunch? Wave Accounting Thinks So

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long been opposed to the fremium model – primarily because (in my opinion) people tend to equate no cost with no value. A plucky startup from Canada, Wave Accounting, is hoping to challenge my assumptions, particularly in the SMB space. They’ve just launched an application that is interesting in

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The Author

Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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