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Personal finance

May 26, 2008

Economic Development, Efficiency, New Zealand, SaaS, Society, Strategy

financial literacy

Daniel wrote an excellent post around his ideas for a personal finance web engine. His thoughts around this were in part formed around some comments made by Xero CEO Rod Drury about a Xero “personal edition” that they might…

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Interview with Rod Drury – Part two

May 26, 2008

Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy

diversity tv, rod drury, sexro

Part two of my recent interview with Rd – we discuss some of the strategies Xero uses for sales channels and also market factors affecting Xero in terms of competitors entering, both large companies trying to downscale, and small…

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Can Microsoft be rebranded? or are they doomed to the position of ‘nerd’ forever?

May 25, 2008

Business, Design, SaaS, Strategy

Apple, Microsoft, Rebranding, rod drury, SaaS

Rod Drury wrote an interesting post over on his blog about what he would do if in charge of Microsoft. Have a read of the post – here’s the link: http://www.drury.net.nz/2008/05/24/if-i-was-in-charge-2/ But as much as I agree with nearly…

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Online apps are different

May 24, 2008

Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, New business, SaaS, Web x.0

google, Zoho

At the CeBIT show, Zoho gave a presentation detailing just why online applications are different. At the same time Desire2Learn made a great video showing how easy, and useful, online notebook products can be. Both of these videos reminded…

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How important is design for SaaS offerings?

May 23, 2008

Design, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Web x.0

ipayroll

Yesterday I met up with the team from iPayroll at the small business expo in Christchurch. I’ve been pretty critical in the past of what their offering looks like – the best analogy I can think of is that…

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Xero mobile

May 22, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS

xero mobile

This is cool….. Xero haven’t announced it yet but eagle eyed fastchicken and stuartm pointed out Xero mobile (oh and no relation to this). The pic below is a bad one – but it shows Xero on my E61…

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DiversityTV – Rod Drury interview part one

May 22, 2008

Blogging, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy

diversitytv, vidcast, Xero

At the small business expo in Christchurch, Ben took the opportunity to interview a number of businesses. In the first interview to be posted, we talk to Rod Drury, co-founder and CEO of Xero about some of the decisions…

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How much downtime would you put up with from your SaaS app?

May 21, 2008

Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0

service level agreements, uptime

A cross posting from unreasonablemen.net I’ve said before that SaaS providers need to think more about the space between their datacentres and the end user. I summarised this post by saying.. To my mind a good SaaS provider should…

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Partnering for SaaS sales

May 21, 2008

Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy

marketing, Xero

Synopsis – SaaS vendors should really find channel partners to do some of the marketing heavy lifting for them When Xero first announced its strategy of targeting accountancy firms as a primary marketing channel for its SaaS accounting product…

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SaaS contact centre offering

May 20, 2008

Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy

echopass

This morning I spoke with Vin Deschamps and Bruce Dresser, CEO and CMO receptively of Echopass. Echopass is an enterprise grade, SLA backed provider of highly flexible, customized call and contact center capabilities that are delivered as SaaS services.…

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