Cebit Sydney Surprises

Cebit this week wasn't as impressive as last year's pre-recession event. Gone were the giants of small business accounting: MYOB and Quickbooks. Other notable "no shows" were Microsoft, SAP and Sage whose stands last year probably cost as much as a small house.

Surprisingly I discovered some gems including an Australian web based fully featured Accounting and Payroll solution priced from less than $45 per month for an unlimited number of users. My first impression is this system is more capable than the hyped up Xero from New Zealand.

Another stand out was a powerful web based work flow engine from the USA for only $50 per month per user. I've seen clumsy and less capable systems for 30 times that!

Also from the USA was a powerful low cost document management system with no compromise top-level security access and a portable storage model with seamless integration into any accounting system. This is the first such system I've come across that will make document management a reality for small to medium businesses.

Over the next few weeks we'll investigate these products in detail so we can see if the "show hype" holds up and they really are of benefit to Axsapt's customers.