One of the skills we don’t have in house here at KashFlow Towers is design skills. There’s not a proficient Photoshopper amongst us. So we’ve always had to outsource. I’m yet to find a design firm or individual designer that provides good work, good pricing and good service. Someone we can work...
A common topic of conversation amongst business owners these days is how the recession is affecting business. My stock optimistic response was something about more people starting businesses in a downturn than at other point of an economic cycle. The theory being that lots of people are finding...
I remember Jimmy Carr being interviewed once about his style of stand-up comedy. He said that he looks at a joke and trims off all the fat - getting it down to as few words as possible. And it’s true. I watched him on Live at the Apollo the other day. There’s no way you could have told the jokes...
I’m just wading through my mass of Google alerts and I found a really great article on ZD Net by Cath Everett called Five cloud computing myths exploded.
She says that Cloud computing is “one of the most over hyped phenomena to have hit the IT industry in a long time”. There’s certainly a lot...
In a recent blog post over on Cloud Ave, Ben Kepes quoted a “friendly SaaS vendor CEO who shall remain anonymous” as having said the following:
The app is to SaaS what the hamburger is to Macdonalds – people forget that. The app is a small part. To go global the BUSINESS MODEL and INFRASTRUCTURE...
I noticed recently that I didn’t have a Google Alert set up for the word SaaS. Now I have, I’m just about ready to cancel it and replace it with a slightly more refined search phrase.
The amount of new material Google turns up with the keyword SaaS in it each day is overwhelming. There’s only...
Bear with me, this one needs a little bit of background info…
As well as our award winning software for small businesses, we have a product for accountants: the KashFlow Partner Programme. It offers a whole raft of benefits that I wont go in to here.
When we speak to our SME customers we ask...
I’ve just read a post by The Other James Brown entitled “S+S - Lifeline of SaaS?“. As you may well imagine, I’m not a happy bunny with the implications in the title. Nevermind the content.
I first heard the phrase “Software plus services” from someone at Microsoft when they were asked about...
It’s the end of the last working day before the deadline to submit tax returns online using the HMRC website.
Normally at this time of year we’d be hearing lots of stories about how the site has fallen over.
But not a whisper. HMRC seem to have learnt the lessons from previous years and were...
We’ve just released some slick integration between KashFlow and WorkflowMax. WorkflowMax are a web-based provider of job, time and project management software so the integration was obvious. I’m trying to avoid using words like “synergy”, but I can’t think of a suitable alternative.
We can’t...
After Sage withdrawing their web-based accounting software last night and SAPs issues with its Business ByDesign rollout, I’m hoping I can add some positive news to the SaaS scene.
I’ve never really spoken openly about how many customers we have, how profitable we are, how much investment...
It looks like Sages new web-based accounting application has lived out its short life via this blog.
First we announced its existence (which they then confirmed to Accounting Web), then pointed out it was crap anyway (which other more independent people then agreed with), then we pointed out...
Just a quick follow up to my earlier post, Wondering what to buy with your Christmas Amazon vouchers?
After spending time on Twitter where we’re all supposedly reading what others are eating for breakfast, I’m assuming someone might care what I spent my vouchers on.
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According to IDC, The harsh economic climate and worldwide recession are going to to accelerate the adoption of software as a service (SaaS)
Their press release says:
Recent IDC surveys and customer interviews support the finding that the harsh economic climate will actually accelerate the...
Seeing as my wife is spending most of the evening on Facebook complaining about being kicked from the inside by our unborn second daughter, I thought I’d spend the evening online poking around Sages new online offering - Sage Live. I’ve already had a play with the functionality and reported my...
Are you sick of hearing about Twitter yet? If not, you soon will be.
I’m hearing more and more about it and I suspect it’ll be the Next Big Thing in the social networking space.
If you’re not familiar with it, let me try to explain...
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The ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) have recently released a guide to online accounting for accountants.
Emily Coltman expressed surprise on her blog that KashFlow wasn’t listed.
I realise there’s a limited amount of space in these reports, but I was surprised not...
In my post a couple of months ago revealing Sages poor attempt at SaaS, I said that one of the senior guys at Sage had said he’d been told not to talk to me as there were “issues between Sage and KashFlow”. I had no idea what he was talking about so didn’t give it much further thought.
Now it...
I've just noticed that the KashFlow fanclub page on Facebook has just reached the 100 member mark. This is without really promoting it very much.
I’ve still not worked out the best way to use Facebook to our advantage in spreading the word about KashFlow, but I’m sure getting a group together...
A common topic of conversation amongst people starting and running businesses is that of business books; what have you read, which do you recommend, etc.
So I thought I’d list my top three here. If you want to add your own favourites, then add a comment below. If nothing else, then I hope it...
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