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Cloud Financials on the Up and Up

August 1, 2013

Business

Business, Diversity Limited, intacct, netsuite, rod drury, SAP AG, service, Software as a Service, Xero, zach nelson

For a long time the traditional financial vendors dismissed the cloud upstarts as little more than amateur providers that caused no challenge to their own market share – in their mind “real” businesses would still use the rock solid…

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EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

May 16, 2013

Business

Big data, Business intelligence, Crunchbase, Databases, Equinix, intacct, Netflix, Sales

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple…

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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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TradeGecko–Cloud-Based SMB Inventory Launches

October 12, 2012

Business

intacct, Magento, netsuite, New Zealand, Shopify, Software as a Service, TradeGecko, Xero

I’ve spent couple of decades dealing with the realities of a small business that sells physical goods. The functional requirements of these businesses are surprisingly broad but alas the budget tends to be small. I was interested then to…

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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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Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

January 17, 2012

Business

Dan Druker, Initial public offering, intacct, intuit, netsuite, quickbooks

Now this is an interesting piece of scuttlebutt that I was alerted to via a private message. It seems that Intuit have quietly begun pushing QuickBooks users who have “outgrown” their own solutions on to Intacct. This is particularly…

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Application Integration in the Wild–Can Discrete Apps Work for SRP?

December 16, 2011

Business

Clarizen, cloud computing, financialforce, Google apps, intacct, netsuite, Podio, Salesforce.com

Last week I posted news of Intacct’s new SRP offering that ties together Clarizen, Salesforce and Intacct’s own system. It was timely given that only the week before I moderated a panel at CloudBeat that brought together a bunch…

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Intacct Launches New UI and Rolls Out SRP

December 6, 2011

Business

cloud computing, intacct, Professional Services Automation, Salesforce.com

I was briefed recently by Dan Druker from Intacct about their Fall 2011 release which marks some significant improvements and expansions to their mid tier accounting solution. As part of the briefing Druker shared with me a competitive landscape…

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SaaS Accounting Roundup

November 21, 2011

Business

brightpearl, intacct, intuit, MYOB, netsuite, quickbooks, Software as a Service, Xero

I’ve been travelling for the past couple of weeks and haven’t kept up to date with news from the SaaS accounting companies that I usually watch closely. Here’s a summary of stuff that’s happened of late. Quick general disclosure…

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