Monthly Archives: December 2007

December 20, 2007 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 12 Comments

Facebook for enterprise… (and a Hi Tech example par excellance)

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a lot of time in Israel over the years, the vast majority of my relatives live there and I have a soft spot for the place, tortured and torturous though it is. I’m always staggered to see the amount of Hi-Tech IP that a tiny, security-challenged, geographically isolated

December 20, 2007 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Netsuite IPO blazing…

By Ben Kepes

Netsuite’s IPO seems to be going all guns blazing. The modified Dutch auction (similar to that employed by Google during their IPO) has already seen the estimated listing price raised to between USD19-22. The interesting thing is that the price estimate values Netsuite at 10.9 versus Salesforce’s 9.2 most recent

December 20, 2007 Posted in IT, SaaS 1 Comment

Agility 101

By Ben Kepes

As posted previously, I’m presenting to a conference in March next year. As part of my presentation I was looking for some information from SaaS payers who have successfully implemented SaaS offerings into enterprise settings. I contact a few different companies but wanted to congratulate Andrew from Salesforce‘s office in

December 20, 2007 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand 1 Comment

Tech jobs with a cool company….

By Ben Kepes

LeftClick, a rockingly good company in Christchurch that I’ve had a little bit to do with, is hiring. LeftClick offers post-click conversion services which translates into more revenue for your e-commerce operation. I like left click on a number of levels; they have a great proposition, they’re building a great

December 20, 2007 Posted in Business Leave a comment

What do SMEs need from CRM…

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been thinking abut CRM and how it relates to SMEs. The way I see it Salesforce is primarily a medium/large business offering – it’s good but it’s just too complex for smaller businesses. On the other hand, contact logs of the likes seen in MYOB and other SME accounting

December 20, 2007 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Save the “Swiss” Army Knife

By Ben Kepes

News that the Swiss army is considering going to international tender for supply of the “Swiss” Army Knife. Sacrilege! Apparently tight new airline riles, as well as competition from the likes of Gerber and Leatherman is making life difficult for Victorinox the original and only official Swiss Army Knife manufacturer.

December 19, 2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Online office productivity uptake…

By Ben Kepes

A couple of posts in the past day got me interested. Seems some research has been conducted which took 600 random PC users and asked them about their awareness and personal use of online office productivity offerings. The results graph is below; So it seems the majority of people haven’t

December 18, 2007 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

The long tail and marginal costs

By Ben Kepes

I see Xero has halved the cost of additional licences. That is for the second, third, fourth etc businesses that someone uses with Xero, the monthly subscription will be half that of the first. Herein lies some of the benefits of the long tail that SaaS products can connect with.

December 18, 2007 Posted in IT, SaaS Leave a comment

Fuel for the accounting SaaS fire….

By Ben Kepes

Many people believe services such as Xero that rely on an on-demand delivery method for accounting are destined to failure – most naysayers give security of service and security of information as the reasons for their concerns. This news just in should provide some fuel for the SaaS pundits out

December 18, 2007 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS 1 Comment

ICT Outsourcing summit

By Ben Kepes

Just a bit of advance warning for those interested in an enterprise perspective on ICT outsourcing. March 26/27 2008 sees the ICT Outsourcing Summit take place at the Crowne Plaza in Auckland. My presentation on day two is titled “The Place of Software as a Service (SaaS) Within An Enterprise”

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.