Tag Archives: SaaSu

17/09/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy 6 Comments

Saasu to New Zealand – it’s only fair

By Ben Kepes

I posted a couple of weeks ago about the imminent entry of Xero into the Australian market. In what can only be described as a fair development, Australian SaaS accounting provider Saasu has announced the roll out of some internationalizations of it’s product. For New Zealand customers this includes New

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03/09/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Great work Xero!

By Ben Kepes

I posted earlier today that Xero didn’t work on Google’s new browser Chrome. Great to read that Xero have checked and corrected this anomaly. So here it is – (BTW Xero you weren’t the first – Just checked and my login to Saasu went fine as well)

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08/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy 5 Comments

Is too much information a bad thing?

By Ben Kepes

After my recent post about SaaSu integrating social networking information in their SME accounting system, I had an email from a reader who disputed my view that this is a positive thing. They contended that; having your customer DB online is a recipe for disaster…. why furnish your employees with

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07/04/2008 Posted in SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

SaaSu upping the ante with contact management…

By Ben Kepes

News that SaaSu is mashing up contact information within it’s SaaS accounting offering with information from LinkedIn, Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and Orkut. SaaSu correctly points out that; For a long time companies have not wanted to share ownership of customer and prospect relationships with their employees. These relationships have been

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04/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Xero, SaaSu and….. Apple

By Ben Kepes

I read a post from SaaSu today which had a link to a video showing off the joys of their SaaS accounting product on an iPod touch. Their latest released has been sorted to work sweet on the iPhone/iTouch. What is interesting is flicking back to a post from Rod

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01/04/2008 Posted in IT, SaaS Leave a comment

Self help accounting software

By Ben Kepes

With a hat tip to Dennis Howlett (who in turn ripped it off from Bill Kennedy), check out this 10 point checklist to ascertain whether or not it’s time to change your accounting software. It’s kind of an “in the know” post, but it’s all fuel for those saying that

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26/03/2008 Posted in IT, New Zealand 8 Comments

New Digital Strategy Advisory Group

By Ben Kepes

Announced today that the Government will set up a new advisory group to represent the various interested parties in ICT in this country. IT Minister David Cunliffe said Creating a digital future for New Zealanders requires collaboration from a wide range of stakeholders… The new forum will create partnerships between

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13/03/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 7 Comments

SaaSu rolls out new updates…

By Ben Kepes

SaaS accounting vendor SaaSu, rolled out a new update recently with some interesting and useful new features. Some highlights are as follows; Saasu Catch – That new little box in the top left corner has more power than your realise. Capture all those snippets of information in one step. No

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04/03/2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

SaaSu functionality upgrade mirrors Xeros

By Ben Kepes

In a case of “there being nothing new under the sun”, SaaSu today announced its approach to within-SaaS transaction processing. Like Xero’s “Xero to Xero transaction processing”, SaaSu’s cloning allows an invoice from a supplier using SaaSu to be posted with one click into your own SaaSu accounts. SaaSu calls

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21/02/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

Accounting SaaS….

By Ben Kepes

There’s an interesting duality going on in Australasia around SaaS delivered SME accounting. On the one side you have SaaSu, the Australian solution with a nine year history of development and deployment. In the other corner we have Xero, the new entrant creating a ground-up SaaS application and with global

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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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