Comments on: Sage Bosses Divided over Future of SaaS

By: £102m – Minted!

£102m – Minted! — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:51:10 +0000

[...] “got” the SaaS concept long before Sage did (I’m still not sure they have) and have been successfully offering a web-based version of Quickbooks (US only) for some time [...]

By: The Future of Boxed Software

The Future of Boxed Software — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:53:29 +0000

[...] also perhaps an analogy for the future of traditional software companies that don’t embrace SaaS. Turning to dust and blowing away in the [...]

By: The Irony of Sage - You Are What You Eat

The Irony of Sage - You Are What You Eat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:18:40 +0000

[...] blogged today that Sage may never get SaaS. Ultimately he offered the same proposed solution as I did back in May: that they should spin off a new company – seperate from the current management – specifically to [...]

By: Duncan Stockdill

Duncan Stockdill — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:18:49 +0000

Spot on Duane. Good luck to Sage buying 37s though… I imagine the philosophies of those two companies might be incompatible!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:38:34 +0000

@Wilf Uh oh. Careful. Duane will release the flying monkeys to hunt you down.. it’s Kash_F_low! ;)

By: Wilf

Wilf — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:45:08 +0000

or buy Kashflow and rebrand to Sageflow :)

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:55:43 +0000

I’m not surprised to hear that there appear to be conflicting opinions within Sage on SaaS – it’s something that we’ve debated heavily (albeit not in the accountancy sphere) – and we’re smaller than they are!

However, to me, it seems clear that SaaS is a popular business model, rapidly growing – and one which empowers ISVs to deliver significant benefits to their users. If we gain the further benefit that ‘big’ companies don’t want to join in.. well.. it’s their loss! ;)

By: Graham Smith

Graham Smith — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:41:46 +0000

Whilst I agree on some points, I think that the Sage products have massive amounts to offer in terms of use that SaaS packages don’t have. I don’t quite understand why that can’t be transferred.

Anyway, Sage grow by acquisition, if they want to get into a market, they will buy a product that is their already (or nearly there) – get it to where they want it, and then re-brand