Aqilla internet accounting system goes live

"Unlike other providers...." - industry spokespeople should know the marketplace well enough to know how they compare with ther competitors. There are other providers offering the same level of functionality and scalability and there is no justification for such a claim in this article, nor anywhere else where I've looked up Aqilla. I won't bang on about our offering, as I'm sure we're not the only ones who can easily counter such a claim.

If Aqilla are truly aiming to meet the needs of very small businesses, they have an odd pricing model. According to their web site they are also making Aqilla available via resellers and as an in-house solution. These approaches are not SaaS (which is never an in house solution nor something that is locally deployed). The costs of supporting local deployments means that it is impossible to offer a pure-SaaS level of pricing, so perhaps this is why they charge £50/user/mth. Are they really targeting larger organisations who are used to paying substantial consultancy fees to support the implementation of complex software?

Mark Davies
www.e-conomic.co.uk