SaaS Productivity Raises National GDP By @CPrimault | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

Xero small business accounting software believes SaaS (software as a service) and especially mobile accounting software is the way to empower small business in a way that can influence whole countries’ gross domestic products (GDP.) Today we embark to learn just how this can be true.

The kiwi company was founded in 2006. In 2012, former Sage-employee Jamie Sutherland was tasked with opening the U.S. office, which now has 150 employees in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Denver.

Xero U.S. President Sutherland decided to make a switch from world’s third largest ERP (enterprise resource planning software) U.K.-based Sage to Xero because he just felt everything it was working toward just made sense with how he saw the future of business software.

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