Tag Archives: intuit

July 22, 2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Xero Annual Report – Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

At the Xero AGM today both CEO Rod Drury and Chairman Phil Norman addressed the audience and gave  roundup of annual performance. Some quick points to note: Customer count now over 22000 (see graph below). Note the steepness of the growth curve has flattened somewhat – it’s still heading in

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Business, SaaS, Society, The Cloud 1 Comment

Money 2.0 Panel

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just finished moderating the Money 2.0 panel at the Office 2.0 conference. We were a little time-compressed as the previous session had run late. All in all it went pretty well. The participants were; Aaron Forth (Mint.com) Marc Hedlund (Wesabe) Justin Kitch (Intuit) Jeff Schultz (Bill.com) Mike McDerment (FreshBooks)

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August 29, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

On to it with Intuit

By Ben Kepes

As mentioned before I’ll be moderating the Money 2.0 panel at the upcoming Office 2.0 conference. I’ve just been told that joining the other panelists will be Justin Kitch, the head of SMB SaaS for Intuit. Kitch is formerly CEO of Homestead which was recently acquired by Intuit. The entire

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July 29, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

ISV’s morphing to SaaS

By Ben Kepes

I’ve posted often abut the difficulties traditional ISV’s face when moving to an on-demand delivery. The recent announcement by Microsoft of it’s latest tranche of software+services offerings has further caused fear and consternation among a number of traditional vendors. It was interesting then to real Phil’s post about Synergation, a

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April 30, 2008 Posted in IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

New McKinsey study on SaaS for enterprise…

By Ben Kepes

A new McKinsey report just released documents the paradigm shift evident in corporate IT. The survey canvassed 850 corporate software buyers and shows just how much attention on-demand is gaining in their minds. Key takeaways; SaaS is rapidly becoming mainstream 75% are favourably disposed to utilising SaaS for development and

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April 17, 2008 Posted in IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 4 Comments

PaaS from a bookkeeping app? Think beachheads….

By Ben Kepes

Breaking news from Intuit that they are launching a cloud computing offering to compete with Force, AppEngine, Amazon etc. Intuit is the creator of Quickbooks (think 3.6million users for their bookkeeping offering) and it would seem that this offering is all about creating applications wrapped around Quickbooks (a la Force

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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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