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Wave Takes on the Scanned Receipts Market

April 10, 2013

Business

Business, Customer relationship management, IOS, MYOB, Optical character recognition, Receipt, Server Message Block, Xero

Anyone who thinks small business have simple requirements in terms of software has never worked within an SMB. SMBs requirements are often just as complex as those of enterprise but they don’t have the resourcing that larger organizations do…

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Xero Hits Escape Velocity With 100000 Customers Count

July 29, 2012

Business

Craig Winkler, Drury, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, MYOB, New Zealand, Public company, rod drury, sage, trademe, Xero

Xero held its annual meeting last week and detailed its current performance. Xero annual meetings are always an interesting event, Xero has an incredibly supportive shareholder base, while most publicly listed company AGMs include a fair dose of critique…

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CCH Powers Up to for Accounting Practices

July 25, 2012

Business

acclipse, BankLink, CCH, Evans, MYOB, Wolter Kluwer, WorkFlowMax, Xero

Cross posting of a guest post I wrote for BoxFreeIT earlier this week Hot on the heels of the CCH acquisition of Acclipse and its practice management and client side accounting solutions, I sat down with CCH CEO Russell…

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CCH Acquires Acclipse Limited–Accounting Vertical Gets Converged

July 12, 2012

Business

acclipse, Australasia, CCH, google, MYOB, New Zealand, Practice Management, Wolter Kluwer

Big news in the accounting space with the announcement that CCH, a division of the international group Wolters Kluwer is acquiring software vendor Acclipse. Acclipse sells practice management software under the iFirm brand, and announced a few months ago…

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Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

March 28, 2012

Business

cloud computing, kashflow, MYOB, quickbooks, Software as a Service, TwinField, Xero

Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have…

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LiveMigrate Eases the MYOB to Xero Pathway

March 20, 2012

Business

Accountancy, cloud computing, LiveMigrate, MYOB, Xero

I’m involved in a good half a dozen different businesses and do all the bookkeeping/accounting for most of them. Over the past 15 years I’ve got pretty comfortable with the main desktop accounting product in Australia/New Zealand, MYOB. Over…

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Xero Raises Another Round and Acquires WorkFlowMax

February 1, 2012

Business

Craig Winkler, LiveMigrate, MYOB, peter thiel, rod drury, SaaSu, Xero

Exciting news today from Xero ahead of their user conference tomorrow that spans two important announcements. I’ll cover them individually. $20M Raised from Existing Shareholders Existing shareholders have reinvested to the aggregate tune of $20M. Sam Morgan, Sam Knowles,…

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The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

January 3, 2012

Business

Australasia, Business, cloud computing, MYOB, New Zealand, Software as a Service, Xero

It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its…

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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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Easing the On Ramp–Xero Makes a Logical Move, Three Years On

November 4, 2011

Business

accounting, MYOB, rod drury, sage, Sage Group, Xero, XML

Around three years ago, before some “heated” discussions made communication between us a little strained, I spent a fair amount of time talking with Xero CEO Rod Drury around the Cloud/SaaS market generally. Those conversations started well before the…

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