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25/01/2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

MinuteDock Launches on Intuit’s Partner Platform

By Ben Kepes

Exciting times today for the team from MinuteDock (more on them here) the neat little time trapping application from my own hometown, Wellington, New Zealand. Formerly a product that was primarily intended for users of the Xero accounting product, MinuteDock is broadening its approach and is now tightly integrated with

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17/01/2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

By Ben Kepes

Now this is an interesting piece of scuttlebutt that I was alerted to via a private message. It seems that Intuit have quietly begun pushing QuickBooks users who have “outgrown” their own solutions on to Intacct. This is particularly interesting given the fact that Intuit, a venerable provider with a

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21/11/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS Accounting Roundup

By Ben Kepes

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

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09/09/2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Salesforce for Quickbooks for Salesforce for Quickbooks….

By Ben Kepes

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

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22/08/2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Dreamforce 2011–A Look Ahead, and a Review of Last Year’s Predictions

By Ben Kepes

Last year was the first time I attended salesforce’s DreamForce global conference (at least in person). DreamForce is a pretty intense event – tens of thousands of people, the entire Moscone center and most hotels and hospitality establishments in the vicinity are fully booked to cater for the multitude of

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07/07/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud – It’s All About Democratization

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from the Rackspace blog. Recently a couple of announcements caught my eye that really speak to our contention that Cloud Computing democratizes IT. As we said in a previous CloudU report, Cloud Computing is facilitating a seismic shift in terms of business development. Formerly, entrepreneurs who wished to

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04/07/2011 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Some Xero Analysis

By Ben Kepes

A month or so ago I was asked to provide some comment for the Natonal Business Review to go with Xero’s full year financial report. I was positive but with reservations and comments. In response to my comments, Xero CEO Rod Drury made some ad hominem comments about me and

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07/06/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Intuit Rolls Out Anywhere–QuickBooks Integration, Anywhere

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written at length previously about the Intuit Partner Platform, a platform that aims to allow third party developers to build solutions that integrate with QuickBooks. I’ve always loved the concept of IPP – I believe that, especially for SMB customers, providing a rich common data model is key to

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01/04/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Another day of Salesforce News, Strategic Alliance with Intuit

By Ben Kepes

A couple of days ago the pundits were closely following the news that salesforce.com had acquired social media monitoring company Radian6. Today it’s a story that is less likely to be covered, but one that is close to my heart, relating as it does to SMBs. This morning Intuit and

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29/10/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

DataGroup Eases the SaaS Barrier to Adoption

By Ben Kepes

One of the barriers to more widespread adoption of SaaS accounting applications is the high degree to which accounting applications are “sticky”. In other words, the high level of workflow that gets built into application use over time, combined with the difficulty of migrating from one application to another, created

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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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