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.
"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, [...]
"We really want to unlock value. And I think that, you know, that starts with a user. It starts with a user engagement". "Be curious, you know. Look at your pain points and make sure you're using the solution you have". – James Chisham, Vice President of Product Management at Oracle NetSuite. Today's episode [...]
"The big challenge that we're going to face was change management and so for us, it was, again, talking to people about that, why are we doing this. We're doing it, ultimately from a business point of view, but also to help our people and to make our people more efficient, to ensure that [...]
"I think there's a massive opportunity for us now, more than ever, to leverage technology to get more productivity, to drive better outcomes, and I think AI is going to give us a huge advantage and opportunity with that". "The most exciting thing by far is Oracle is absolutely leading the pack when it [...]
"How are you going to be able to make really confident, well-informed decisions? And that's critical to success and to align to your objective. So having that single source of truth that NetSuite provides, really that's the number one factor." – Scott Wiltshire, Vice President & GM, Oracle NetSuite ANZ Today, I’m excited to [...]
This episode is kindly sponsored by ApprovalMax (https://approvalmax.com/). In this podcast, I will share about my Nashville Xerocon 2024 experience with you. Here goes… This was my fourth international Xerocon, and the fourth Xerocon that I’ve spoken at, which I was extremely grateful about. In 2024, Xero hosted two conferences: London and Nashville. My [...]
"Look at Zoho Books as an alternative, because we compete head-to-head with QuickBooks. We compete head-to-head with Xero." Val Steed, Director Accountants at Zoho Corporation Today, I’m speaking with Val Steed, Director Accountants at Zoho Corporation, about his company’s journey during the last three decades. In this episode, we talk about . . . [...]
