Blog Archives

Some Xero Analysis

July 4, 2011

Business

FreeAgent Central, intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, kashflow, MYOB, quickbooks, rod drury, sage, SMB, sme, Software as a Service, Xero

A month or so ago I was asked to provide some comment for the Natonal Business Review to go with Xero’s full year financial report. I was positive but with reservations and comments. In response to my comments, Xero…

Read more
Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

June 30, 2011

Business

cfo, cloud computing, cloudability, enterprise, iaas, LaunchPad, Monitoring, SaaS, SMB

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the…

Read more
Charity Begins At Home – Lending for Small Business

June 17, 2009

Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Society

kiva, microfinance, SMB, sme

Image via Wikipedia Kiva is a US based peer-to-peer lending system that allows people to temporarily loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. Kiva acts as the agent hosting profiles of entrepreneurs for lenders to access, collecting the…

Read more
“Word of Mouse” will drive adoption of SaaS

February 12, 2008

IT, SaaS, Web x.0

Dell, SaaS, SMB, Web 2.0

Recently, I attended the Small Business Summit hosted in Times Square, New York. The catchphrase of the summit was ‘Technology: Its time to reinvent your business’ The key note speaker was Karen Quintos of Dell Inc, VP of Marketing…

Read more

Blog Archives

Some Xero Analysis

Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

Charity Begins At Home – Lending for Small Business

“Word of Mouse” will drive adoption of SaaS