The Cloud Stories podcast shares the stories behind the people who build or use Cloud Apps that extend the capability of online accounting software. It explores:
How to implement and integrate Cloud Apps with online accounting software to automate processes, improve productivity, and profitability;
How to build a business developing Cloud Apps;
How to adopt Cloud Apps, build your own preferred tech stack, and introduce Cloud Apps to your client base.
"The difference in the digital aspect compared to the traditional accounting is collaboration is critical". "Digital Transformation is a level above that. You're not focusing on software; you're focusing on process. The software may come into, I guess, resolve a process or streamline a process. But it's about making sure that the operations inside [...]
"As soon as you stand still and you don't evolve, then you jeopardise yourself, being stagnant and not growing, and the industry leaving you behind". "We're not looking at getting rid of people's roles, but we're just evolving their lives. Because if we don't help them all evolve as a business, then the chances [...]
"Standardising how you're doing things is one of the really key things that we find our user base just loves. It's having a repeatable process for how you're structuring your filing systems and making sure that all the documents are in the right place so that you can find them really easily". "Often we're [...]
"What was very important in my journey was going outside of my industry and learning and connecting with women who are doing it in other industries. To be able to hear their tech journey, their failures, and their successes, and to see what the potential was, and then to be able to bring that [...]
"Imagine having a personal assistant that has all the wealth of information out there in the world as well as contextually relevant information about your business and the activity that you're doing right now to help you do things a lot faster, with more accuracy—this is a really powerful solution." "We're giving those customers [...]
Welcome to the first podcast episode of the year, a curated discussion on 2025 predictions in accounting trends. Today, we’re playing a little game of Accounting Bingo for 2025! What's on the bingo card for the year ahead? We’re talking about technology, tools, and accounting trends transforming our profession. Let's activate the game mode! Square [...]
"We know that as a user, whether you're an accounting bookkeeping firm or an internal finance team, that's a lot to deal with. That's why we've started doing these launch events. To be okay every quarter, we will recap what we've done and announce what's new (in that quarter)". "The tracking category audit is [...]
"For me, it was really boiled down to three things: the differentiation, which ended up being the product focus, the ability to scale the go-to market, so from one to five people. And then I called it 1000 things. Just every week, we would do retrospectives and try to figure out what we did [...]
"What I would say to people is, first of all, you should be beginning the (AI) journey now". "Our philosophy continues to be human in the loop, and that is, I don't think we're ready for a self-driving ERP system yet. We still want to continue a driving analogy. We still want a human [...]
"If you go to the legal market, you see accountants are way more forward-thinking than the legal market. It's all Word, Excel, no tech, no nothing." – Matt Lowry, Chief Revenue Officer | GTM Leader at ApprovalMax. Today's episode is the fifth of my six interviews recorded at the Oracle CloudWorld and SuiteWorld conferences, [...]
