Monthly Archives: August 2008

August 31, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

Here’s an IP monster….

By Ben Kepes

I was alerted to new offering Mygazines – which basically encourages users to scan magazines and upload them where the community can access them. Wondering about copyright issues I checked out Mygazines terms and conditions – front and centre is this clause; INDEMNITY You will indemnify and hold harmless Mygazines,

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August 30, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, Strategy 1 Comment

A start-up reflects

By Ben Kepes

Billflo is an app to create, manage and email invoices. My attention was drawn to Billflo by their CEO who commented on one of my posts. I’m looking forward to meeting up with them in San Francisco next week, and discussing their plans for the business. Outside of that they

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August 29, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

On to it with Intuit

By Ben Kepes

As mentioned before I’ll be moderating the Money 2.0 panel at the upcoming Office 2.0 conference. I’ve just been told that joining the other panelists will be Justin Kitch, the head of SMB SaaS for Intuit. Kitch is formerly CEO of Homestead which was recently acquired by Intuit. The entire

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August 29, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Moving up the food chain….

By Ben Kepes

Zoho CEO Sridhar wrote this excellent post about why Zoho plays in the office productivity space, but why Google only will do up to a point. The gist of his post is that for Google, docs is a low margin offering compared to their traditional business. Therefore docs moves Google

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August 28, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy 11 Comments

Professional partnerships

By Ben Kepes

Xero announced today that they have partnered with Acclipse, the Australasian vendor of Accounting practice software. Acclipse sells software that does all the back office work for accounting practices – managing their own workflows as well as managing data from their clients. It is to this second part of the

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August 28, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, Strategy 34 Comments

Almost too pathetic for words….

By Ben Kepes

But I had to say something… A press release this morning announced that; Nelson businessman Alan Trent says he is committing more than $1 million to the development and launch of a shopping website, 735pm.com, aimed at New Zealand retailers and consumers. One of the site’s features is it gets

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August 28, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New business, Strategy 2 Comments

Did someone mention a bubble?

By Ben Kepes

With a hat tip to Mauricio for pointing it out, look at the story of Agami, the start-up with the oh-so-novel idea of providing "enterprise-class unified network storage solutions". After raising $45million from three rounds of venture funding – including big valley name Kleiner Perkins. Valleywag has a conspiracy theory

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August 27, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud 4 Comments

Getting SaaS adopted at an enterprise level

By Ben Kepes

Is hard… simple as that What WILL however help it along is things like the announcement today (with a hat tip to MF) that Fronde has just been appointed the first Google enterprises partner for New Zealand. Fronde will be Google’s first partner in New Zealand for the Google Security,

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August 27, 2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, The Cloud Leave a comment

Party time

By Ben Kepes

For those either attending the Office 2.0, or in San Francisco next week – just a note that Zoho will be hosting a party to both celebrate their millionth user milestone and to announce a couple of new things. The party will take place at; Vitrine @ St. Regis (4th

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August 27, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS 1 Comment

Salesforce want to be a force in knowledge management too…

By Ben Kepes

Salesforce started off with CRM – a product that seeks to manage a companies sales processes. Sales processes are just one form of knowledge management so it’s not hard to see the fit with Salesforce’s latest acquisition, InStranet. Instranet sell a tool called Dimensions that has a whole lot of

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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.

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