The All-Saas Enterprise, or, "Lookout SAP."

Business has really picked up in Crock-Town, so systems must be automated. Gold Zeppelin is currently evaluating the following items for project management, estimates/invoicing/collection, and emails, respectively:

http://www.basecamphq.com/
http://www.cashboardapp.com/ (I will also try http://oe.quickbooks.com/)
http://www.sproutit.com/

The idea is to use the API to have estimates from cashboard get approved and put into base camp, with email correspondence from sproutit automatically becoming associated with the correct project in basecamp.

Man, we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the strangle-hold/pseudo-monopoly held by big players like SAP.

Maybe I'm old school, but it does seem a little strange to have these apps hosted elsewhere. Scheduled nightly exports will put my mind at ease. Offline interface better be coming soon, though.

I will follow-up later in the month with my thoughts on these apps.