The state of the rest of Cloud Software landscape

for accountants

David Terrar – Cloud Advocates & D2C

at Mimecast, London – 22nd September 2011

Accounts preparation

over 75 cloud accounting solutions in the UK

Cloud based CRM

Plenty of options, time & billing, project

Cloud based Payroll

Options from MyPaye to ADP

Cloud based Document Management

Cloud or hosted, simple docs to work flow

What about the rest?

• Final accounts production

• Tax

• iXBRL

• Invoicing

• Time & billing

• Project accounting

Why only bits of solutions?

• Regulatory issues, data security, Patriot Act• Final accounts are for the tax man and legal

eagles – the client’s not interested• Management accounts is where the action is• No fully integrated solutions yet• Time vs. Fixed price • Resourcing a project• Need to handle Barely Repeatable Processes

What do you want your practice to be?