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 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...
by Richard Messik | Mar 27, 2010 | Cloud computing
The news that The Times and Sunday Times are going to start charging for their online content is a worrying paradigm shift in the way that online information will be made available in the future. Whilst of course, charging for online content is not a new idea –...
by Richard Messik | Mar 20, 2010 | Cloud computing
I have been working hard on the set up for my “big new client”. A major element of the brief was the change over from their existing Sage accounting system to E-conomic a Cloud based SaaS application. As part of the process, the client has requested that...
by Richard Messik | Feb 20, 2010 | Cloud computing
I have just upgraded my Laptop to Windows 7. Not an exercise for the faint hearted, but after a few failed attempts I succeeded. I had previously been using XP and over the years I had downloaded so much rubbish and deleted loads more, the whole system was getting...