A first look at Zoho Books Budgeting function. Note that the initial minor bug at release as mentioned in the video had been resolved at the second day of release. All Zoho Books users, with or without Zoho Inventory integration, will have the budget menu available.

Go and ask for a quote for an IT solution delivery, and the first thing you get asked is: "What is the scope?" Seems fair - if you want to get a price commitment, you will be asked for a functionality boundary. But what does this actually do to the delivery of your solution? Nothing good, ...

Much has been said about agile, and much is continued being said. Agile deployments of software fail, and agile deployments of software succeed... And every so often an article pops up which contributes to the common misconceptions that create the weak foundations to build your agile deployment. Let...

On 19 and 20 September 2019, the Zoho team visited Sydney with the Zoholics customer conference. Every year, this conference gets bigger, and better. With this year a number of BIG announcements from the Zoho team with regards to the already excellent value offer of Zoho One. In this post we will br...

In any startup scenario, there are two things you will never have enough of: time and cash -  the latter at least until a successful funding round. A great practice for any startup is to practice being lean - it teaches you to be frugal with these two scarce commodities of time and money, so th...

If you ever played a computer game, you know that great games start easy, and incrementally introduce new complexities. As Nolan K. Bushnell coined the phrase to describe the best games: "easy to learn, difficult to master". So what does this have to do with business applications? Surely, ...

We spend a lot of money making our websites look great. All the latest design trends, the right imagery, the coolest animations and other effects. We spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on this. After all - it is the digital business card of your company, right? Wrong! Or to phrase ...

When you offer IT support to multiple clients, or in a complex environment, you want to be able to do this in the most effective and efficient manner. No time wasted on finding the support emails - everything should be at the fingertips. Further, there are a myriad of server, client, and device oper...

I have been in the business of implementing business solution for over 25 years. During this time, I have been amazed at two things: 1). the incredible speed of innovation in this sector, and 2). the incredible inertia of silly requirements that keep us from utilising these innovations. No - this is...

When you change your business model from advisory to full software sales, implementation and support partner, it is not a trivial change. Added to that, a full technology change from Microsoft to Zoho, it is an opportunity that does not come without risk. The numbers are in, and it is looking very p...

Zoho has made a change to the Zoho One licensing terms in respect to Backstage. While we wait for the full Australian pricing to be released, I have summarised the main changes for you here. Note that all prices mentioned here are in US Dollar (exclusive of GST).

First - there is an update on how man...

Ransomware is creeping into business and government systems seemingly unimpaired by the counter measures they put in place. Antivirus and malware protection are not a luxury, but they can only keep up with the newly released infections, at best. The weak point remains the user as entry point, and sy...

Missed the webinar on Pipeline Management in CRM? No problem - this webinar was free, and is therefore posted on YouTube. You can find it under the Aurelian Group YouTube page (if you like the content, please subscribe). 

I would like to share with you two different experiences I have had dealing with support - in both cases the respective companies were represented by courteous support agents, willing to do what is necessary to resolve a ticket satisfactory. Yet the outcome and experience could not have been a bigge...

Let me start this post with a disclaimer: when it comes to video scripting, recording and editing, I don't know what I am doing. What I do know is that I don't script, and only marginally edit the end result. Is it professional? No - but it is authentic. Any errors in the videos are the fault of the...

I am honoured to be featured in this months Spotlight of Realise Busines at PubBiz in Surry Hills. Realise Business is the leading Not-For-Profit business advisory service to small and mid-sized businesses in New South Wales. PubBiz is one of their many initiatives that help small business owners co...

Zoho has recently released MarketingHub - the one stop app for building and maintaining your marketing funnel. As we are used from Zoho - the MarketingHub is a powerful product in itself, managing the entire marketing funnel - but it is also integrated with other Zoho applications to provide an inte...

Webinars are an effective, inexpensive, and efficient way to share information - the webinar can be shared to audiences of varying sizes, and can reach anyone with a device that can reach the internet. But there are drawbacks to a lot of the webinar software as provided. Some software requires you t...

Starting your own business? Or you have started and it is now time to get your accounting away from the receipt-box (read: shoe-box) and spreadsheets into an actual accounting package? Great! That means you are readying your business for further growth. But where to start and how much does it cost?

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