Conflating the cloud
When you're working in IT marketing, there is a pre-requisite that you believe your own BS. If there isn't anything convenient or there's too much of the same stuff being said then you go to a fall back position: reinvent history. Better still if you can meld the two together ...

Cloud computing risks?
I shot the above video as part of several videos I made at this week's SAP UK and Ireland User Group Annual Conference in Manchester. It was a great event, attracting record attendance with representatives from businesses large and small. In this 3 min 36 sec snippet, Alan Bowling chairman of ...

Why accountants must become business advisors
Mark Lee's discussion about accountants as business advisors resonates with me but for all the wrong reasons. Mark's general argument is rooted in a way of thinking I've seen that seems specific to the smaller practice but which I believe is doomed to failure. Mark identifies four types of practitioner ...

Benefits of cloud accounting
We often hear about how the SMB SaaS/cloud accounting vendors are driving value for the very small 'mom and pop' shops. Now we're starting to hear from early adopters of more 'grown up' solutions. In this short video, Sallie Kennedy, CFO at The Compliance Team Inc describes a couple of ...

How online services crush everything
I'm part way through a complex travel schedule. Anything that relieves the pain of organizing flights, hotels, transfers and meetings is a massive bonus. Yesterday I wrote on IT Counts about TripIt and how it helps me solve these problems. I also mentioned ExpenseBay, a service I've just started to ...