2006 saw the introduction of cloud computing. Cloud computing is defined as the delivery of computing services – including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over the internet (‘the cloud’). Between 2006 and 2015, advances in cloud computing meant that we started to see some notable changes in the provision of accounting software. New products like Xero came to the market, existing desktop software providers like Quickbooks upgraded their product to cloud-based software to be in the market.