Business Two Zero

Yesterday, at Web 2.0 Strategies 2008 in London, the ICAEW’s IT Counts community won the award for “The Best New Web 2.0 Initiative”. IT Counts, which is sponsored by Microsoft, provides practical IT advice for accountants in business and in practice. It is part of the ICAEW online network (ion), a new collection of web […]

Probably the main reason I’ve been inactive on this blog for a while has been because of my involvement in ITBRix, the launch of WordFrame, as well as a major WordFrame project. Let me explain a little. First, WordFrame is an enterprise 2.0 platform that helps you build web communities and manage content, that has […]

On Monday, both in their trading statement, and to their personnel around the world, the well known mid-range and enterprise accounting software company CODA announced that they are in the due diligence phase of being acquired by Unit 4 Agresso. Unit 4 is a Dutch software company formed in 1980 that merged with Agresso, a […]

On Friday my old friends at CODA announced they are developing a new, on-demand, Software as a Service accounting application, and then yesterday they announced a strategic partnership with Salesforce.com.  I reported it on blognation yesterday, and Dennis blogged about it at ZDNet and AccMan. 
I think this is good news for the online accounting solutions […]

I mentioned on Friday that I’ll be writing the enterprisey stuff for blognation.  My part of the site launched last Monday, with an explanation of what we’re trying to achieve over there.  One of the key objectives is to highlight UK and European start ups and innovators.  I decided to make the first real item […]

Over on AccountinWEB’s Any Answers Annie Griffiths was asking the community about how to keep up with technology buzzwords, and she raised a specific problem:

“Over time I have built an Information bank for my firm. It is basically a load of interlinked Word & Excel documents containing useful information like company policies, standard forms structured […]

Over on AccountinWEB, Nigel Harris and John Stokdyk have been writing about Kevin Salter’s Accountant Power Tools - a subscription website providing gadgets and software advice for accountants. I understand John’s support of the idea, using Wired’s slogan “We waste our time so you don’t have to”. The service costs £6 a month, discounted to […]

While I was in and around AccountingWEB this week there were banner adverts at the top of the page asking me to “Talk to Sage“. This is a marketing campaign offering me free business guides and software information. After I registered at the site (because they want to capture my details as a lead before […]

Back on the 21st February 2007, Mark Holland of Baker Tilly penned an article on AccountingWEB called Opinion: Don’t be frightened of software as a service (it’s a registration site, but no cost involved). I was looking forward to a useful article for the AW readership, who don’t get enough explanation of the SaaS topic, IMHO. […]

I’ve just seen a press release from our friends at Gartner, trailing their Gartner Outsourcing Summit, March 19-21 in Dallas. They say the worldwide SaaS market reached $6.3 billion in 2006 and is forecast to grow to $19.3 billion by year-end 2011. There were a few quotes I just had to pick out.
At one point […]