Tag Archives: SaaSu

01/02/2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

By Ben Kepes

Exciting news today from Xero ahead of their user conference tomorrow that spans two important announcements. I’ll cover them individually. $20M Raised from Existing Shareholders Existing shareholders have reinvested to the aggregate tune of $20M. Sam Morgan, Sam Knowles, Craig Winkler and Peter Thiel’s fund Valar Ventures have all taken

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20/12/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating. In the report we advised organizations to look at applications that; • Have significant interaction with external applications or services • Are

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28/10/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Flawed Analysis–On Clouds “Playing Nice”

By Ben Kepes

The other day someone alerted me to a new report put out by IT news that lauds itself as a “technical study of the integration and extension options offered by the largest 20 software-as-a-service vendors serving the Australian enterprise.” The report looks at a few different dimensions including; Can I

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22/08/2011 Posted in Business 8 Comments

On the Sale of MYOB Again. Bain’s Strategy–Acquisition of Australasian Cloud Players?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been commenting over the past week or so about the long saga around the sale of Australasian accounting vendor MYOB. At the same time other vendors have taken the opportunity to suggest what they believe is happening – in part relating to the situation in terms of traditional private

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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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24/11/2010 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Downwards Price Pressure, Saasu Drops Prices but is Zero the New Destination?

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – I’ve worked with a number of different accounting software vendors, for full information see my disclosure page. In any industry where large numbers of sellers exist, economics force prices downwards – it’s an undeniable economic fact that many a high school student has heard in the context of

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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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07/10/2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Saasu Connects to TradeMe – Welcome to my Future

By Ben Kepes

Here in new Zealand, TradeMe constitutes an inordinate percentage of total internet time and traffic. Ebay may be huge in the US or elsewhere, but it’s not exaggerating to say that TradeMe created the inflection point of internet adoption in New Zealand. The number of people running businesses completely or

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29/09/2010 Posted in Business 8 Comments

On Suites for Accounting Practices – Xero Invests

By Ben Kepes

Xero yesterday announced a small investment in New Zealand based Max solutions, the company behind SaaS project management product WorkFlowMax. This investment, while small and regionally focused shows a growing trend for vendors. This announcement was part of a broader initiative called “The Modern Practice” tying together a variety of

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25/08/2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Another Entrant in the Cloud Accounts Space – Saasu and Acclipse Link Up

By Ben Kepes

News today that Saasu (more on them here), the online accounting software vendor, and Acclipse, the accounting practice management software vendor, have formed a deep partnership to market an end to end system that allows accountants and businesses to work off the same data. This follows on from MYOB’s moves

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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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