29 July 2010 6 Comments

Barclaycard and KashFlow – big deal?

Barclaycard and KashFlow – big deal?

Barclaycard are piloting allowing businesses using the their merchant services to raise invoices and collect payments using an “e-invoicing” service provided by KashFlow. This posting on TechCrunch, prompted the above tweet from Duane Jackson, which Dennis Howlett picked up on immediately and wrote about here. My initial reaction to reading the TechCrunch article was that [...]

30 April 2010 2 Comments

Sage, a few interesting facts

Sage, a few interesting facts

I have just been reading this interview with Sage MD Paul Walker on the City AM website and thought I would share a few facts that jumped out at me. Sage is valued at £3.4bn and sells accounting software and services to 6.1m small and medium-sized businesses worldwide It has bought over 110 rivals since [...]

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22 April 2010 3 Comments

New tools are for new services

New tools are for new services

I have just spent 10 minutes writing a comment to this posting over on Accounting Web, then thought that it would be better to set out my thoughts here. There is a fundamental misunderstanding in the Accounting Web discussion, when contributors state (rightly to some extent) that transactions cannot be keyed into the online accounting [...]

31 March 2010 1 Comment

Have IRIS finally started to innovate?

Have IRIS finally started to innovate?

Yesterday we learned that IRIS has invested in SaaS accountancy software supplier FreeAgent, the financial details are undisclosed.  This news was something of a surprise to me and, since the benefits to FreeAgent seem very clear, got me to thinking what’s in this for IRIS?

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