by Richard Messik | Jun 12, 2010 | Gadgets
I have had my IPad for 4 weeks or so and during that time it has hardly left my side – my wife is threatening to sue me for adultery, citing my IPad as co-respondent – I have promised to attend counselling sessions! But, seriously though (really – I...
by Richard Messik | May 22, 2010 | Cloud computing, Technology
There has recently been a flurry of comment on the AccountingWeb Cloud – Accounting discussion group. Much of it is the same, somewhat depressing, comments from the gainsayers coming up with the same old negative responses to the whole concept of using the Cloud...
by Richard Messik | May 6, 2010 | Cloud computing
@Duanejackson’s excellent blog today highlights the amazing comments by the CEO of Sage about SAAS. He quotes: “As Sage put out their results yesterday, their CEO said: “Well, many of the people who’ve launched SaaS products in the last four/five...
by Richard Messik | May 6, 2010 | Gadgets, Technology
I have at last received my new Ipad and I make no apologies for being very excited. As soon as I heard about the launch of Apple’s latest technological marvel, I just had to have it and have been waiting impatiently until the opportunity finally arose and I...
by Richard Messik | May 1, 2010 | Cloud computing, Technology
I am grateful to @garyturner for drawing my attention to an article in Wikipedia on Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers a marketing book by Geoffrey A. Moore that focuses on the specifics of marketing high tech products...
by Richard Messik | Apr 24, 2010 | Cloud computing, Technology
I had a meeting the other day with a new client to discuss setting her up on E-conomic.As it happened the office boardrooms were fully booked, so armed with my trusty Acer netbook, we de-camped to the local Cafe Rouge and had our meeting there. Meeting in the...
by Richard Messik | Apr 19, 2010 | Cloud computing
The Twittersphere is awash with comments concerning the unprecedented disruption caused by the Icelandic Volcanic eruption (not content with bringing us to our knees with their banking collapse etc etc). One comment which caught my attention was from @GaryTurner who...
by Richard Messik | Apr 18, 2010 | Cloud computing
Project Summary A new client wanted us to act for them in connection with the monthly processing of management accounts and preparation of annual statutory accounts. As a large (and growing) group of companies, the brief required us to not only dealwith the current...
by Richard Messik | Apr 8, 2010 | Technology
I have taken a week off over the Easter break – haven’t gone away but decided to stay at home and catch up with some writing and a multitude of little jobs that have been waiting for a convenient moment to complete (and will probably still be waiting when...
by Richard Messik | Apr 1, 2010 | Cloud computing
There have been a number of interesting announcements from various Cloud providers over the last few days -E-conomic announced the other day that they had passed the 24,000 users ceiling and Xero presented their latest quarter global results which showed an increase...
