by Richard Messik | Feb 13, 2010 | Cloud computing
This is a true story (only the names and a few of the facts have been changed to protect the innocent!) A client rings me the other day ..”I have a bit of a problem. I need to get my accounts done very urgently… problems with the bank etc. Can you turn...
by Richard Messik | Feb 7, 2010 | Cloud computing
I am writing this blog, sitting in the kitchen at my son’s home in Brussels where my wife and I are visiting for the weekend. As usual when I travel abroad, I have my trusted Iphone – wouldn’t go anywhere without that – and my acer net book. It...
by Richard Messik | Jan 7, 2010 | Cloud computing
As I look out at the wintery scene from my home office window and suffer pangs of guilt at not making it into the office for the second day running (did I really try hard enough?) my conscience is somewhat lightened by the fact that I have easily completed two days...
by Richard Messik | Dec 21, 2009 | Cloud computing
It is hard to believe that we are almost at the close of the first decade of the new millenium – it seemed like yesterday that we were panicking about the millenium bug and preparing for the armageddon that would surely follow.The Web, came into its own and with...
by Richard Messik | Dec 5, 2009 | Cloud computing
I had intended to attend the AccountingWeb Cloud Computing forum, but urgent client matters intervened and unfortunately I couldn’t make it. From all accounts it was a pretty successful day and well attended.A lot has already been written about the fringe event...
by Richard Messik | Nov 22, 2009 | Cloud computing
I gave an online demonstration to a potential new client the other day of e-conomic our preferred online accounting system. As well as the client, one of my partners from another office was also joining in on the conference. I used a piece of software called...
