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Posted on Wednesday, Sep 3rd

Anything I write about outsourcing seems to lead to a heated debate. My article on the Death of Indian Outsourcing was one such piece. The more recent Obama and Outsourcing received a similar welcome. Regardless of what happens to the outsourcing industry as a result of the US elections in November, outsourcing firms will remain key contributors to a changing

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Forbes Column 08: The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing

Posted on Friday, Feb 29th

My most recent Forbes Column, The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing, discusses companies like ADP and their “nearshoring” moves.

More on ADP and SaaS

Posted on Saturday, Nov 10th

Here’s Phil Wainewright’s piece on ADP and SaaS: ADP Sees incentive for SaaS. My related articles: * ADP Can Become a Powerhouse through Acquisitions * Can PayChex become a SaaS Aggregator? * Intuit Bets on SaaS, Not Yet on International * Concur’s SME Opportunity

Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 9)

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 23rd

SM: Out of 5.2M small businesses, only 800,000 are using a software service for payroll? JH: It is under 16%, and that is why this is an attractive space because it is un-penetrated. All 5.2M of those people have some solution, but our belief is that a lot of them are doing it manually and

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Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 8)

Posted on Monday, Oct 22nd

SM: Financial institutions seem like a great distribution channel for small business payroll. JH: I think the distribution strategy is to be where people are likely to buy payroll. Be on the web, be at retail, be at the accountant, and be at the banks. SM: You do the tax portion as well. How about

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Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 16th

SM: A key issue with small business facing products is how do you reach your customers, give that it is such a fragmented market. What did Intuit do? JH: It was a direct marketing play. Historically, as computers came down from the enterprise level (the IBMs of the world), they went to the mini computer

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