Technology in rapidly evolving the entire construction and services industry. Clinton Cowin from TradiePad talks about how he’s moved from a tradesman to now offering cloud integration services. Clinton goes over the components of a “Business Operating Platform” and what you need to know when looking to adopt technology into your organisation.
It all started with two phone calls in the same week. Prospective clients called us to discuss becoming clients, and they were already using cloud-based accounting packages. One of them was using Xero. As the discussions unfolded, I was instantly out of my depth in relation to cloud accounting.
During Xerocon I was fortunate to be on a panel session during the Developers Day that was discussing the relationships between accountants, integrators and add on partners.
It’s great to see more and more accountants now starting to embrace the cloud and, in particular, Xero. Unfortunately many don’t step back to take in the bigger perspective of ‘the cloud’, with Xero being just one element in the mix for their clients and their own firm.
When I was first starting to investigate doing business through ‘the cloud’ I was approached by a potential client to provide tax and accounting advice. My first reaction when we went through his business model was almost one of awe at the high level of automation he had created in his business.
