Monthly Archives: November 2010

November 29, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Mobile World and You…

By Ben Kepes

For those who are firmly ensconced in traditional businesses, desk (or cubicle) bound, and using largely traditional processes, this post might come across as a little bit of science fiction. I believe, however, that the future is coming more quickly than anyone realizes and that future is, in part, mobile. As such, I wanted to write [...]

November 29, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

More CloudWash–On Commodity Hardware and Definitions

By Ben Kepes

Recently at the defrag conference I moderated a panel looking at the cloud. One of the panelists works for a traditional data center operator that is moving to providing cloud solutions (although, as we will see, one could argue about that). During his presentation, the staffer reiterated some FUD that

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November 29, 2010 Posted in airline industry, Customer 2.0, illustration Leave a comment

Aisle vs. Window: The Power of Choice

By Ben Kepes

Over on the Hunch blog, the results of 32,000 survey responses regarding peoples preferences for window or aisle seats on flights have been dissected. From a seemingly simple question, Hunch was able to draw conclusions about the socio-economic factors that come into play when determining preference with regards airplane seating – to summarize the findings,

November 28, 2010 Posted in Challenges, enterprise challenges, future of enterprise, modern work life, People and Processes, work life balance Leave a comment

The Unintended Consequences of the Modern World…

By Ben Kepes

The organization of the future will be organic — it will readily change to the specific situation it finds itself in at any one time. Collaborative teams will form on a project-specific basis, coming together to leverage symbiotic skills and move on when the project is complete. Physical workplaces will also look different – with workers coming and going in a flexible manner, and skilled individuals working across multiple organizations and multiple projects.

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November 24, 2010 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Downwards Price Pressure, Saasu Drops Prices but is Zero the New Destination?

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – I’ve worked with a number of different accounting software vendors, for full information see my disclosure page. In any industry where large numbers of sellers exist, economics force prices downwards – it’s an undeniable economic fact that many a high school student has heard in the context of

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November 23, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Twitter’s Firehose, A Missed Opportunity or a Savvy Move?

By Ben Kepes

I was in the front rows last week when Twitter and Gnip co-announced at the defrag conference that Gnip would be selling 50% of all the messages posted to Twitter for $360,000 per year, or 5% of all messages for $60,000 per year. Marshall covered the new fully over on

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November 22, 2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

On APIs and an Integrated World- MailChimp Steps Up

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long said that the value of SaaS for SMB end users lies, to a great extent, in the ability to tie together discreet applications. Obviously the ability to do so is dependent on the existence of good APIs on both sides of the integration exercise. Being involved in an

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November 21, 2010 Posted in Best Practices 4 Comments

Social Media? Yes. Social Media Gurus? Hell no.

By Ben Kepes

Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of posts discussing training employees to handle the social media role within an organization. The theory goes that if someone is going to be the “face” of a business, they need to be carefully instructed how to actually portray that business, articulate corporate messages and, even further, need to

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November 19, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Freemium (Again)

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long been pretty skeptical about Freemium as a go-to-market strategy. I’m always prepared to be shown examples where it’s working well however and one of those came over my desk the other day from Scott McMullan, enterprise Google apps guy. The deck was a copy of one McMullan presented

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November 18, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Netuitive brings Predictive Analysis to Cloud Infrastructure

By Ben Kepes

What happens when you take the sort of predictive analytics that are more commonly used for predicting election outcomes and stock market movement and apply them to cloud infrastructure? Well in Netuitive’s case you get a provider that aims to make control over cloud infrastructure automatic, using forecasting, diagnostics and

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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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