Revas is not that easy to pigeon hole – our approach is to tailor the Revas outsourced accounting model to each client’s requirements within a range of given parameters. Different clients will require and take different levels of service. Having said that, Revas can:

•provide the reassurance of SaaS, no hardware or maintenance issues, no software licences or upgrades to worry about
•provide an outsourced solution to all accounting and tax compliance commitments including VAT & payroll
•provide our clients access to additional expertise on tap
•be accessed from anywhere in the world from any PC or MAC with Broadband Internet access.

At present Revas is enabled via Terminal Services for remote access to the core accounting applications and Crystal Reports for online reporting. Clients accessing our hosted service do so via Terminal Services. We have used Citrix to gain access to client-hosted systems. Revas need not be based around any particular accounting software although where we host the service we use Access Dimensions. Our intention was never to reinvent the wheel hence we do use off the shelf packages.

We tailor each set up to each client – some clients may want POP, others the project costing module, etc – we spend time with each client developing their desired management reporting pack, which we currently deliver via Crystal Reports.

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After all, you are writing for an electronic medium, so we are not slaves to the word count.

The real test is whether the article compels you to keep reading - because you are forcing someone to carry out a phyiscal activity (scroll down the screen) to keep them involved. I found this a good summary and welcome the bulleted bits - they drive home the argument more effectively than long, logically perfect paragraphs.

If you are still wondering what to do and where to go with the "is SaaS right for you?" section, remember that I did offer the opporunity to extend your manifesto into a subsequent piece or two - and the "is it right for you?" discussion is an important one to get readers to think about. If you all have the time/enthusiasm, you could expand that element with short summaries from a selection of different vendors' customers about why the selected system was right for them - try to aim for a wide spread of user types and reasons for embracing SaaS. Again, aim for c600 words (give or take a hundred).

If you do decide to go this route, I would include a final summary paragraph with the heading "Is SaaS right for you?" with a slimmed down final paragraph and a trailer that the next installment of the manifesto will answer the question more fully and include explanations from users why they chose this route...

After some fast drafting/editing work and I suspect a big investment of emotion and effort, you've managed to convince me that wiki drafting tools aren't quiet as rubbish as I iniitally suggested. Well done!

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proper version control?

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This is about a 1000 words already, so we'll need to do a substantial edit and re-work.

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David,
this looks like another debating thread - remember, what I want from this group is a well argued ARTICLE/opinion piece. A little old fashioned, I know, but busy readers appreciate the effort people put in to organise content and concepts for them.

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I said at AW's site that for me, the expression SaaS is redundant. What I mean is the debate has moved on. The software element is assumed in my mind because the innovations I see that matter are all coming from vendors offering an on-demand approach. Therefore, now is the right time to be considering the service element. I agree there is confusion from the title but in this case there was such a huge disconnect. I actually don't know what Revas is offering. That's my earlier point and I would prefer to see an explanation from the post author.

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