Site Logo
Digital First - R&D in accounting tech - for accountants and SMEs

Cloud Power – Testing the Limits of Accounting Software: Accountech.Live 18

By Sholto Macpherson  /  October 12, 2018
A funny thing happened on the way to the cloud. Small business accounting software became a lot more powerful.The
Read More
Cloud Power – Testing the Limits of Accounting Software: Accountech.Live 18

GreatSoft Brings A Cloud Practice Suite for Big Firms to Australia

By Sholto Macpherson  /  September 18, 2018
MYOB’s attempted purchase of Reckon APS at the beginning of this year – and its knockdown by the regulator –
Read More
GreatSoft Brings A Cloud Practice Suite for Big Firms to Australia

Xero’s New CEO Vamos Puts People, Not Tech, Front and Centre

By Sholto Macpherson  /  September 7, 2018
Xero’s brand new CEO, Steve Vamos, has just marked off his first Xerocon in the big seat. The one question
Read More
Xero’s New CEO Vamos Puts People, Not Tech, Front and Centre

Zoho Signals a Swing Back to Suites

By Sholto Macpherson  /  August 24, 2018
Technology swings constantly between periods of best-of-breed or point solutions, when a burst of innovation throws forth dozens of startups,
Read More
Zoho Signals a Swing Back to Suites

CLOUD ACCOUNTING

LATEST

Zoho Signals a Swing Back to Suites

By Leave a Comment

Technology swings constantly between periods of best-of-breed or point solutions, when a burst of innovation throws forth dozens of startups, to periods of consolidation where major players gather those many solutions into better value suites. Xero’s addition of Xero Expenses and Projects (and QuickBooks Online’s expansion to the latter), and its acquisition of HubDoc, feel […]

Hospitality Expenses App InvitBox is Back – As Lightyear

By 4 Comments

When Invitbox sold to Intuit in 2013 it was one of the earliest successes from the SMB app ecosystem. Brothers Roger and Chris Gregg had built up their hospitality focused accounts payable app by door knocking pubs and hotels across Australia. In those early years, when cloud accounting software was a relatively new concept, online […]

HubDoc Sells to Xero – The Backstory

By 5 Comments

In a surprise move, Xero acquired the Canadian document fetching and processing app HubDoc this week. Xero said it would integrate its fetching technology into the accounting app and continue to operate HubDoc as a standalone product, much as it has done with project management tool WorkflowMax. It’s an interesting development because of where it […]

What the Open Data revolution means for you

By Leave a Comment

A quirky debate on banking data is happening on the sidelines – but with consequences that will radically change how you interact with your major suppliers and potentially your customers. It all started with the banks. Last year, the treasurer, Scott Morrison, commissioned the Open Banking Review, chaired by Scott Farrell, to find out the most […]

CCH Opens iFirm to Xero Tax, MYOB and Microsoft Power BI

By 2 Comments

In a sign of the times, CCH iFirm is adding connections to other vendors’ accounting software in a bid to improve efficiency for accounting firms. While accounting software for SMEs has long used API connections to integrate with hundreds of other business apps, practice software has tended to stay within its walled garden.    Xero […]

Hey Mid-Market, Xero and Intuit are coming!

By 1 Comment

It’s time the mid-market accounting software companies woke up and realised it is 2018 – and that there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity lying right in front of them. In Australia, MYOB has decided not to add the government-mandated Single Touch Payroll service to MYOB Premier, the accounting software which holds as much as half the […]

About D1

Digital First covers news and opinions on accounting technology and is read by tech-savvy accountants who understand the importance of technology in establishing competitive advantage.
>