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Financial Systems for the Mid Market – Intacct and Alternative Approaches to Consolidation

March 4, 2013

Business

Business, Excel, FinancialForce.com, intacct, Jim Henderson, Microsoft Excel, netsuite, quickbooks

I’ve written many times in the past about the relative dearth of vendors providing cloud accounting solutions to the mid-market – as NetSuite continues to move up the food chain and focuses on larger enterprises it only leaves players…

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FinancialForce on a Tear

February 21, 2013

Business

accounting, cloudcomputing, Economic growth, FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite, Professional Services Automation, United States

When salesforce.com invested in FinancialForce a few years ago, there was keen interest in how this would help the company grow. There’s never been much clarity around those numbers since the parent company of FinancialForce, Unit4, doesn’t break out the individual…

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Zuora Partners With a Host of Mid Market Financial Vendors

May 14, 2012

Business

FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite, Subscription business model, Tien Tzuo, vindicia, Workday, zuora

In my extensive writing around the subscription billing space, I have often noted that it is a very polarized sector of our industry with a handful of well funded companies providing services for large organizations – Zuora, Vindicia and…

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Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday

September 1, 2011

Business

FinancialForce.com, Force.Com, Heroku, netsuite, Platform as a service, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, VMforce, Workday

Update – Both Infor and Concur have similar deals announcing today as well – details to come Update #2 – I spent time with Workday during the event to get a deeper understanding of what the force.com part of…

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FinancialForce and Service Resource Planning

March 14, 2011

Business

Appirio, Enterprise resource planning, FinancialForce.com, Force.Com, netsuite, openair, Professional Services Automation, Salesforce.com

When FinancialForce announced the acquisition a few months ago of the Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution created by Appirio – it seemed an obvious fit. FinancialForce is the financial solution of choice on the force.com platform, while a huge…

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FinancialForce–Educating the Market and Customer Stories

December 22, 2010

Business

FinancialForce.com, Salesforce.com

As part of the recent DreamForce conference. FinancialForce decided to take a novel approach towards educating the marketplace and used the approach taken by Eliyahu Goldratt in his management book The Goal. FinancialForce commissioned a book called The Deal…

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SAP, Salesforce and the Velocity of Change

December 10, 2010

Business

bydesign, FinancialForce.com, google, Heroku, netsuite, Salesforce.com, SAP

This week has been an intense one for me in the Bay area. After a vibrant few days at DreamForce, the extravaganza that is the annual salesforce.com conference, I joined a select group of bloggers and analysts for a…

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FinancialForce Acquires Appirio PSA

December 7, 2010

Business

Appirio, FinancialForce.com, netsuite, openair, Salesforce.com

I’ve covered professional services automation (PSA) software previously – NetSuite created some news awhile back when they acquired OpenAir sold it as a module to their ERP offering. This morning FinancialForce is announcing that they have acquired the PSA…

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Cloud ERP Adoption Barriers–Functionality or FUD?

November 3, 2010

Business

acumatica, FinancialForce.com, netsuite, openair, Plex Systems

Recently Frank Scavo wrote a great post regarding what he determined was the key success factor for SaaS suites: functional parity. The thesis of Scavo’s argument was that, until cloud vendors provide true functional parity with on-premise solution, a…

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Acumatica Goes End-To-End

September 27, 2010

Business

acumatica, Enterprise resource planning, FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite

I’ve written several times in the past about Acumatica – the little ERP vendor who could. First to roll out on Azure, one of the first to embrace a dual on-prem/cloud strategy and one of the few to buck…

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