Cloud based computing and Software as a Service (Saas) has resulted in a number of online applications and services seeing the light.
@lantic has announced that they now provide Pastel My Business Online as part of their cloud based computing and Saas product offering aimed at the SME market.
Accounting over the internet gives the user mobility, and extending it to mobile devices makes it even more portable.
The uptake of Netbook technology in other parts of the world bodes well for the emerging internet markets such as South Africa as the previous barrier to entry posed by prohibitive hardware costs are now something of the past.