Business Two Zero

One of my clients, Goodman Jones, a 13 partner, 85 staff, forward thinking accounting practice based in the Fitzrovia area of London (right near the BT Tower) are looking for a new manager to join their team.  They’ve been advertising through conventional means with Accountancy Age and the like, but they haven’t found the right […]

What never ceases to amaze me about this medium is that Dennis’s post about his new business card:  took me to Hugh’s take on Marketing:  took me to Paul Robinson’s post on what software products should be tackling, inspired by Hugh: As for the rest of us, where next? How do you get […]

In a few weeks I’m heading to the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, and then SAP TechEd in Amsterdam.  It’s frustrating that I couldn’t afford the time to get to SaaScon, which has been going on, also in San Francisco, both yesterday and today.  This is a business to business event dedicated to the […]

Here is an interesting use of the SaaS “1 to many model”, along with web 2.0 collaboration and knowledge management, in the systems management space occupied by the likes of IBM Tivoli and CA-Unicenter. The commoditization of systems management by ZDNet’s Phil Wainewright — A young company called Klir Technologies uses standardization and shared services to apply network economies […]

I’ve often discussed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of SaaS solutions versus traditional software, and tried to highlight a proper “apples for apples” comparison.  An important new white paper was published by the SIIA yesterday, which you must read to get a better understanding of the issues involved.  There are plenty of topics for discussion […]

The other day Dennis tipped me off to Sig’s latest challenge of Thingamy versus SAP.  Sig likes to explain how he can replace your traditional ERP with Thingamy, but this is different, and probably more important!  By the way, Sig is one of those guys you absolutely hate to stand next to - older than […]

First I have to disclose that this post is a bit of a shameless advert for what we do, as well as a plug for one my clients.  My good friends at Goodman Jones have been shortlisted for this year’s Accountancy Age awards in the category “Best use of internet: Practice”.  They are an ideal […]

The other day I had a phone session with Don Best, VP of Marketing at Jamcracker, who was pointed my way by Phil Wainewright (cheers Phil).  I knew the company started a while ago, and I actually had an incorrect understanding of what they are about, thinking that they were only involved in helping software […]

    The Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco is about a month away.  Dennis described it as the “must attend gig of 2006“, and I definitely agree.  I’ve just finalised all my arrangements for making the 11,000 mile round trip to be there - but why is it so important? Most of us have been using desktop […]