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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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Private Equity Firm Bain Acquires MYOB–Looking for Increasing Value

August 20, 2011

Business

Archer Capital, Bain, MYOB, Private equity firm, sage, Sage Group, Xero

News just in that, despite UK accounting vendor Sage trying their hardest to purchase MYOB, another private equity firm has scooped the Australasian accounting vendor that has been on the market for a little while. Interestingly enough, the markets…

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Sage bids for MYOB. An Uber Alliance in the Making?

August 16, 2011

Business

accounting, Business, MYOB, sage, Sage Group, Vendors, Xero

Breaking news just to hand that UK accounting vendor Sage is considering making a bid for Australasian vendor MYOB. Sage has long had a strategy of growth by acquisition and tends to let the acquired company continue to run…

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Sage Replies re SageOne

January 20, 2011

Business

Duane Jackson, kashflow, Sage Group, Simon Black

Just before publishing my post talking about Sage’s new SaaS product yesterday, I had a conversation with Sage’s PR people. I asked a bunch of questions, the answers to which didn’t get to me by publishing time. It seemed…

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Media Relations is an Ongoing Process. Sage Seems to Forget That.

May 10, 2010

marketing, Strategy

cloud computing, Duane Jackson, kashflow, Paul Walker, Phil Wainewright, sage, Sage Group, service

A year ago I wrote a post congratulating Sage on an increase in communications they’d had with me. As I said at the time: So I give Sage significant kudos for reaching out and contacting some of us, but…

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Blog Archives

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

Private Equity Firm Bain Acquires MYOB–Looking for Increasing Value

Sage bids for MYOB. An Uber Alliance in the Making?

Sage Replies re SageOne

Media Relations is an Ongoing Process. Sage Seems to Forget That.