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 biggest thing I've learned is that it's really practical to do things 10 to 100 times faster than other companies. The nature of software lends itself to significant differences in speed. We've been able to internalise, lean into that and work more quickly and more productively than the competition. That's much more effective [...]
"Do what you can with what you have. Maximise and leverage what you have really well, before you then start thinking about stepping up". – Jun Yan, Director at Ravit Insights "Engage with those operations people upfront and understand those pain points that they have and how it relates to collecting revenue or improving [...]
"There's an oversaturation of average content out there at the moment. But what we want to read is human-led content. Because it will be authentic and it will resonate. It can be short. It can be long. It's that human-led raw, authentic content that will connect you with your brand and with your community." [...]
"We have a user voice and all clients have access to it. It allows you to be able to come in and vote on features or put forward enhancements and development requests. Then our team monitors that. We are looking at the product roadmap, what are the core features and functions that people have [...]
"We're defining e-Invoicing as a new way of sending business documents, invoices, but also purchase orders and other things between accounting systems using a secure International Network. That's giving you a higher level of security and lowering the risk". – Simon Foster, GM Product - eInvoicing at Xero. "You will never eliminate risk, what [...]
"I think the more important thing is just for businesses and professionals to be experimenting and learning and just staying abreast of what's happening across the space." – Damon Hauenstein, Chief Financial Officer at Weel "AI is a tool that extends us. I don't think that, in the short term, I'm going to be [...]
"Data is everywhere. It's ubiquitous. What we have to do is add context to that data so that we can synthesise it and understand it. Once we start to do that, then we start to see patterns. And once we see patterns, then we can start to get a little bit of knowledge. It's [...]
"We've specialised in helping people to move data back and forth. When we started to move data back and forward, we figured out that reporting is one of the major requirements from the customer." – Andrey Kustarnikov, CEO and Founder at G-Accon. "We're following the classic Rule of Seven: you need to see seven [...]
"More and more, we're understanding that technology is an enabler of more human things that we can do, if that makes sense. So, in other words, it gives us more freedom to become human". – Paul Dunn, Clarity & B1G1"That's probably a message to all of us, to be bolder in our execution. To be [...]
"We have struggles, we have battles. You could see, at times, we don't achieve things, but you only really lose if you don't take any lessons from it. So you win, or you learn". – Graeme Tennick, Chief Impact Officer of Tennick Accountants I am thrilled to bring you the third interview in our series of [...]
