e-conomic is very pleased to announce today the establishment of its operation in Spain. This growth brings the firm’s international reach to six countries including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the UK and is part of a strategic expansion programme which will see the business established in 12 countries by 2012.

Dennis Howlett, the never knowingly under opinionated independent software consultant interviews Richard Messik, the Vantis partner responsible for the groups online accounting projects on the many advantages of moving over to e-conomic and how Vantis are ramping up to move the first 200 online clients over to the e-conomic system by the end of December, [...]

Currently, many more businesses appear willing to talk about positive experiences of web-based acccounting systems than accountants in practice. Here are some comments from the “IT Counts” online forum run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW).  Only a very small sample of the Institute’s overall membership participate in the forum, but even amongst this [...]

The following are excerpts from an article on ZDnet quoting the European commissioner for telecoms and media, Viviane Reding.  Speaking at the unveiling of the Commission’s Digital Europe strategy on Thursday, Reding said: “99 percent of EU firms are small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but only nine percent of them use electronic invoices and only [...]

An article in Accountancy Age states: “Just fewer than half of UK finance professionals have reported increased stress levels”.  The article goes on to suggest that technology is to blame, with “teams of people downloading data into spreadsheets, adding rules, and presenting it back to managers in an acceptable form”. Although the article makes no [...]

I was flicking thru our local paper over breakfast this morning and came across this special offer for free Sage software (at the time of writing, you can also see it here on the newspaper web site).  As a small business owner, I might be attracted by the offer but wary of the hassle of [...]

We are often asked what is Software as a Service (SaaS). Instead of explaining it ourselves, we have chosen to let www.infoworld.com explain it through the video below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGUPSvswmY0 Basically this is what we do with regards to accounting software And we are true believers of the most important part of SaaS is SERVICE. [...]