Just come back from the Xero conference and the heads buzzing with ideas and possibilities – pity execution is the hard part!
What we have seen is Xero driving a network of solution partners, accountants, business and the government all collaborating together to drive up efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. In other words Collaboration and Process Efficiency has been the focus.
Now the next phase starts where silos of information, traditionally kept in government computer centres, are becoming freely available on the internet through API’s (application program interface). Pull some of this disparate information together, mix in a few statistics, overlay it with some location data, throw in some computer smarts and then sales opportunities start to reveal. More sales related cloud solutions will enter the market and use this information to generate leads and convert them into sales all of which will continue to feed to Xero.
All very promising and exciting and I can’t wait!
