Monthly Archives: June 2010

June 30, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Emerging Market, OpenAir and Professional Services Automation

By Ben Kepes

When I was in the Bay area recently, I took the opportunity to talk with NetSuite (see disclosure) about their relationship with OpenAir. OpenAir is now owned by NetSuite and has a product line aimed at both professional services automation (PSA).

Tagged netsuite, openoffice, psa |

June 30, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Hadoop Summit: Appistry Targets HDFS Market

By Krishnan Subramanian

Appistry, the platform player based out of St. Louis, is positioning itself to target companies considering HDFS (See our previous coverage of Appistry here). Yesterday, Yahoo hosted Hadoop Summit 2010. Appistry made an announcement about some strategi…

June 29, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized 7 Comments

Cisco Just Kicked iPad Out of Enterprise Market With Cisco Cius

By Krishnan Subramanian

Cisco Live is going on at Las vegas and I just watched the keynote by John Chambers, their CEO. The turn around by Cisco is impressive and they are really onto something with their video strategy. Today Cisco announced their new tablet strategy bringin…

June 29, 2010 Posted in Business 9 Comments

On Influence, Playing Nice and Duty to Expose

By Ben Kepes

So to recount a sorry tale, recently Jason Mendelson, VC with The Foundry and prolific (and widely read) blogger, posted about a certain PR firm and why exactly he didn’t consider them an exemplary example for the industry. It’s an interesting read but to summarize, The PR firm in question

Tagged foundry group, google, jason mendelson, public relations |

June 29, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Apigee Adds Facebook Support To Their API Console

By Krishnan Subramanian

Apigee is a cloud based service built on top of Sonoa technology for API gateway, offering testing, debugging, analytics and security for your API (See our past coverage of Apigee and Sonoa Systems here). It sits between your application and your API …

June 29, 2010 Posted in Best Practices 1 Comment

Should Management Lead the Way? Or Get Out of the Way?

By Ben Kepes

When it comes to effecting change within an organization, it might sometimes appear that we have divergent themes going on here in the Zengage blog. On the one hand we’re firm proponents of the ‘bottom-up’ approach that says that organization…

June 29, 2010 Posted in Strategy, General, The Cloud 3 Comments

Gmail’s Biggest Protector is Google Docs

By Ben Kepes

Recently I presented at a breakfast program put on by a local Microsoft reseller. My role was to give an overview of cloud computing and specifically articulate the value that SaaS applications can bring to an organization in terms of allowing them to focus on their core business and ignore

June 29, 2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Cloud Computing Market In India To Reach 1 Billion By 2015

By Krishnan Subramanian

According to India based research firm Zinnov, the Indian cloud computing market is going to experience a ten fold growth by 2015. According to the firm, the current cloud computing market is $110 Million today with, approximately, 66 Million in the Sa…

June 28, 2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Structure 2010: Public-Private Cloud Flareups

By Krishnan Subramanian

Last week GigaOm organized the third edition of their famous Structure conference. This is one of my favorite conferences because of their focus on Infrastructure topics. Unfortunately, I had to drop out in the last moment as I went down due to a vira…

June 28, 2010 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Do Tech Startups Need to Be In the US For Funding?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been talking this weekend to an awesome little startup out of Sydney, Australia. They’re based in the enterprise software tools/middleware/cloud area and have a great solution with huge potential. They’ve done all the right things – mentions by the big analyst companies, partnered with the right vendors and hired

Tagged investing, vc |

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.