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Is This The Future of Sage? An Intro to Intacct

October 30, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson 4 Comments

See also: Highlights from Sage Intacct’s Roadmap: Intacct Advantage 2019 If you’re a Sage customer, partner or employee you better get used to the name “Intacct”. You’re going to hear it a lot over the next couple of years. Sage Intacct is an enterprise finance platform in the cloud ERP category, stronger in services-based industries rather […]

Sage to Australia: Forget Sage Live. It’s A New Product, Partner Plan And Solidly Mid-Market

October 23, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson Leave a Comment

Sage Live (renamed Sage Business Cloud Accounting) was officially dropped from the Sage lineup in Australia 12 months ago in the face of furious competition and a too-distant roadmap. A new-look Sage is now swinging its weight behind solutions for mid-market with the localisation of Sage Intacct, an ERP acquired in 2017. However, the shakeup […]

Full Product Wrap for Xerocon Brisbane 2019 – The Real Xero Stands Up

September 20, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson 3 Comments

Xerocon Brisbane 2019 felt like a watershed in a couple of ways. The first in maturity – Xero looks and sounds much more like a global software company developing operations in multiple geographies, rather than an Australasian success story punching above its weight. Second, in the way Xero talked about its software and the focus […]

Xero CEO on Global Expansion and Xero’s Future as a Data Platform (Xerocon 2019)

September 13, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson 1 Comment

After a year in the big chair, Xero CEO Steve Vamos showed at Xerocon how he has been busy making his mark. An introduction – Vamos is a veteran technology executive who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech such as former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Apple’s Steve Jobs, when Vamos was […]

MYOB Swings Hard to Suite: MYOB PartnerConnect 2019

August 30, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson Leave a Comment

Last week at its partner conference, MYOB taught accounting software incumbents around the world an important lesson. You don’t have to be first to market with an idea, you just have to price it right. MYOB dropped a lot of product compared to its releases over the past 24 months, with a slew of mobile […]

Xero’s “New Look” Marketplace – What Does It Mean to You?

August 16, 2019 By Jonathan Mifsud 3 Comments

Earlier this year, Xero announced a key milestone – a redesigned marketplace for business software that connects to the accounting platform. It’s a clear sign that Xero is dedicating more resources to its software partners and the growth of its ecosystem. But other than a fancy new design, why is this important and how does […]

QuickBooks Online Adds Auto-Updating Insurance for Australian Users (w/ Interview)

July 5, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson 1 Comment

Australian businesses using QuickBooks Online can now buy 10 types of insurance through their accounting software at prices up to 20 percent cheaper than market rates, claims partner ExpenseCheck. This is only the second type of financial service that Intuit has offered through the QuickBooks Online platform, and the first outside of the US. The ability […]

Behind Thomson Reuters’ Global Plan for Practice Software Powered by Content

June 21, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson

What is QuickBooks Live and What Does it Mean for Accountants? Interview with Rich Preece

May 31, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson

Intuit has launched a bookkeeping service in the US and announced it in Australia in what looks like the beginning of a global rollout. QuickBooks Live targets the 40 percent of businesses that don’t have an accountant or bookkeeper connected to their QuickBooks file. US startups such as Bench sell bookkeeping services directly to small […]

Intuit Adds Bookkeeping Services with QuickBooks Live

May 30, 2019 By Sholto Macpherson

NB. The image above is from a test in the US and may not reflect Australian pricing or packages. Intuit announced today that it will start testing a new service in Australia called QuickBooks Live that includes file setup and basic bookkeeping. The service will be provided by independent bookkeepers who are certified as QuickBooks Pro […]

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