Rod is in town and this morning I had a chance to meet him face to face. I’ve been talking about SaaS in general and Xero in particular for a few months now, so I guess he wanted to…
I spoke today to Dan from ConnectNZ. He’s coming to BarCampChristchurch on Friday and was ringing to get a little guidance as to what he should talk about and how he should pitch the level of his presentation. I…
Over here at SaaS blogs, Sinclair has posted about what he refers to as SaaS with ROF (Regular Old Functionality) as opposed to SaaS with ROF + Value. This is a very similar theme to my previous post about…
This is a post that I hope will find its way into Nokia NZ or Nokia international’s public relations department. A month or so ago I acquired a new Nokia 6630 phone. Pretty much straight away it was obvious…
Smoothspan has this excellent post talking about SaaS as the enabler to cross the chasm between early adopters and everyone else. Excellent points are made in the post but more emphasis needs to be placed on the one imperative…
I use MS office, Open Office (under duress) and Google Apps. That’s simply not enough office app choice for a budding geek so I’m now using Zoho as well. Initial observations – nice, really nice. Much better functionality in…
So….. reporting from the Small Business Expo – I’ve been undercover today – doing the rounds of the accounting software businesses talking them about what they do and pretending to know nothing. Both MoneyWorks and MYOB are on the…
I’ve written in the past of the viability or otherwise of Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) changing their business model to embrace SaaS delivery. We see a lot of it around, Microsoft embracing SaaS (albeit by a different name), SAP…
I’m always interested in the office politics/keeping employees happy debate. I’ve read in the past Ricardo Semlar’s book Maverick (highly recommended – Amazon it) and it struck a chord with its stories of employee autonomy and self-determination. I struggle…
Tomorrow is day one of the Small Business Expo, I’ll be attending and will blog my impressions. It’s been a full on year what with export year and all the other love fests (no disrespect to anyone of course)…