SaaS

Xero Integrated Inventory

Well worth a look if you have anything other than the most basic inventory management requirements. Unleashed offers a stock management system that can integrate with Xero. Click on video below for an introduction. We see this approach of connecting up selected technology providers to build a solution that works for your business as the [...]

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MYOB LiveAccounts

Little bit surprised to see that as part of the monthly $25 sub for LiveAccounts you only get 100 free transactions fed through from linked bank accounts. After that it costs 11 cents per transaction. I suppose 100 is quite a lot but strange that Xero can manage to provide unlimited (as far as I [...]

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Cloud Integration

It was only a few years ago that the Software as a Service model was considered too slow, too expensive and too scary to represent a viable opportunity for the SME market. How times have changed! The next step in extracting value from Saas solutions is in integrating various best of breed solutions together at [...]

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Saasu Bank Feeds

Turns out Saasu’s imminent release of automated bank feeds (a-la-Xero) is not such a big secret – it is on their quoted pipeline! Doh – Saasu Pipeline – anyway, will be a big step forward in day to day usability and a great time saver. No doubt there will be some initial kinks to work [...]

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MYOB LiveAccounts

Still coming – can’t be far away now! Much heralded, MYOB LiveAccounts seems likely to offer a cut down version of Xero’s functionality. Will be interesting to see how well it lines up dollar for dollar. May be a matter of targeting a specific niche – perhaps FX will be left out as this adds [...]

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Saasu on the iPad

Do I really need to run my accounting system on an iPad? Perhaps not but this is still cool (in an accounting type way)   Saasu are doing heaps of cool things at the moment – several really important upgrades coming down the pipeline – can’t say too much but I think you will be [...]

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The SaaS Model

For customers I think it really comes down to a de-risking exercise. Instead of needing to make an essentially one-off cash capital expenditure commitment to license a piece of software, they can now elect (via the SaaS model) to make a month to month payment that can be switched off at any time. They also [...]

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Salesforce.com Chatter

No end to the constant stream of great products. Software just keeps getting cheaper and better – the downside is it is so hard to keep up with all the latest options. We don’t pretend to have a miracle answer to that problem – but the Salesforce Chatter product has really caught our eye. Bit [...]

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