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Cloud Case Study–BlueWolf

October 5, 2012

Business

AppExchange, Appirio, BlueWolf, cloud computing, openair, psa, quickbooks, Salesforce.com

While at DreamForce recently I took the opportunity to sit down and talk with BlueWolf a business process and strategy consultancy that does a lot of work with mid sized and enterprise customers helping them move their IT to…

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Baker Tilly Extends Beyond Accounting–Delivers FinancialForce PSA

April 13, 2012

Business

Appirio, Baker Tilly, Baker Tilly International, financialforce, Jeremy Roche, netsuite, openair, psa, Salesforce.com

The world of the cloud channel is an interesting one – I recently published a whitepaper specifically looking at ways that partners can prosper in a cloudy world where revenue streams are significantly different than in an on-premise world.What…

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Acumatica Update

May 27, 2011

Business

acumatica, cloud computing, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, openair, Software as a Service

It’s been six months or so since I spoke with mid-market ERP vendor Acumatica (much more on them here) so I was please to spend some time with them last week getting an update about how they’re going. As…

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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 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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FinancialForce Update

October 27, 2010

Business

acumatica, Enterprise resource planning, financialforce, intacct, netsuite, openair, Salesforce.com

I spoke the other day with Jeremy Roche, MD of FinancialForce the accounting application built on top of force.com. Readers will recall that about a year ago Coda2Go, as FinancialForce was called then, was partially acquired by salesforce.com –…

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AffinityLive – PSA For Us All

July 13, 2010

enterprise, Product reviews, SaaS

affinitylive, geoff mcqueen, hiive, netsuite, openair, psa

I posted recently about OpenAir, NetSuite’s PSA offering. Hot on the heels of that I talked with Geoff McQueen, founder of Hiive Systems an Australian vendor who is bringing its own PSA solution to market later this year. Geoff…

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Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)

May 26, 2010

enterprise, Strategy

Application programming interface, cloudave, netsuite, openair, quickbooks, SnapLogic, Software as a Service, zach nelson

A month or so ago I sat in a room with a small group of bloggers discussing the enterprise software space with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and one sentence he said stuck in my mind: The same was is…

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