A new release for Xero and some moves to overcome the stickiness of MYOB and ease the conversion pain for new users. I’ve always said that SaaS vendors need to think long and hard about inward migration strategies to…
An interesting opinion piece by Michael A. Braun of Intacct, a SaaS ERP/Financial company, looks at traditional installed application suites, claiming that they are “yesterday’s news”. More interesting is the response it generated. The article is interesting, framed very…
I’ve written in the past about the good things that New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, the Government’s enterprise development body, does for New Zealand business. They have a large variety of programmes, all aimed at helping New Zealand business…
I’m sitting at Auckland airport waiting for my flight home after an interesting two days at the ICT Outsourcing conference. My presentation was entitled “The Place of Software as a Service (SaaS) Within An Enterprise”, and I think it…
An interesting post on RWW this morning asks whether Facebook for business use is really going to happen. Josh correctly points out that Facebook is already being used by business operatives, they’re just using it for their personal networks…
(cross posting from Mike Riversdale: Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style blog) Basic A great list of “Web 2.0” definitions from Miraz that we people that live on the Web use all the time but may confuse and intimidate those…
Conference venue (charging the conference organiser heaps no doubt) – 1 hour broadband $5 Hotel (charging the conference organiser $150/night for me to stay) – 1 hour broadband $10 Esquires cafe – 1 flat white (admittedly not fantastic but…
IP services are the way of the future, large organisations however have been fairly conservative to embrace what they can bring to a business. Refreshing to read this morning that the Bank of New Zealand has rolled out VoIP…
Very sobering reading from Bernard Hickey, saying that; New Zealand’s housing market is so overvalued and wages are growing so slowly that we at interest.co.nz expect median house prices will not rise back above their November 2007 peaks until…