Tax chain H&R Block has teamed up with Yodlee, which make application tools and financial management application, that would pull data from a variety of financial sources and automatically populate tax forms. The application is expected to be ready for a market test in April and to be available for the 2011 tax season.

These days, everyone is asking the ROI question on Software as a Service. What they are not asking is what is the lost opportunity cost off our current model.  I am not, in any way, a technology guru, but I am completely dependent on technology to run my business. And maybe it's my business owner bias that drives me to the conclusion that SaaS is a no-brainer.

ANDOVER, Mass.  –  Copanion, which markets tax document automation software, has closed a $10.2 million round of venture capital funding, co-lead by Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Pilot House Ventures Group. It was the company's third fund-raising round. With the financing, Edward Jennings, Copanion’s former SVP of marketing and sales, has taken over the job of CEO from founder Steven Ladd, who is now responsible for new market development, an advisory position.

Bassets eDepreciation, a Web-based package, provides three different landing pages, determined by a user preference setup, which give role-based views to users. The product has management, asset administrator and asset manager home pages, each providing different data views. A new install procedure ensures correct administrator privileges and proper separate of data from the software applications.