Monthly Archives: December 2010

December 15, 2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

When Enterprise Apps Get Agile–A Ruby/Salesforce Case Study

By Ben Kepes

When I first wrote about salesforce.com’s acquisition of Heroku, and in a subsequent post looking at the deal from a New Zealand perspective, I hinted at a great case study I’d heard of. Many of my fellow commentators have been really positive about the deal, but have struggled to find

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December 14, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

NetSuite–Live on the iPad

By Ben Kepes

One of the justifications proponents of a move to the cloud use is that of workers needing mobile access to applications. It’s always be easier to enable access for devices across multiple platforms when the application is served from the cloud. Of course central hosting is only the first step

December 12, 2010 Posted in Business 9 Comments

There’s a Reason People Point Out Data Sovereignty as an Issue

By Ben Kepes

Ouch, this has got to hurt. Stuart Maxwell summed it up nicely when he said; What was he referring to? The Inland Revenue Department in New Zealand dropped a bombshell today when it released the not-so-excitingly named alert RE 10/02. To extract the relevant section, the alert warns business in

December 10, 2010 Posted in Business 14 Comments

SAP, Salesforce and the Velocity of Change

By Ben Kepes

This week has been an intense one for me in the Bay area. After a vibrant few days at DreamForce, the extravaganza that is the annual salesforce.com conference, I joined a select group of bloggers and analysts for a more reflective influencers briefing day yesterday in Santa Clara. I wanted

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December 10, 2010 Posted in airline industry, Best Practices Leave a comment

Spoiler Alert: TSA Fails in Customer Service

By Ben Kepes

For anyone who has spent the last few weeks living under a rock and not reading or watching the news, it may come as a surprise to hear that the TSA has caused something of a controversy with its introduction of new machines, so-called backscatter units, that give the operator a full and intimate view

December 10, 2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

New Report – Moving your Infrastructure to the Cloud, How to Maximize Benefits and Avoid Pitfalls

By Ben Kepes

As well as my blogging and microblogging, Diversity Analysis has a history of writing whitepapers that are intended to be used by customers looking to appraise themselves when making technology decisions. A month or so ago I felt the time was right for a paper that reassessed the technology landscape

December 9, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Force.com and Heroku–A Kiwi Perspective

By Ben Kepes

I posted yesterday about the purchase by Salesforce of Ruby on Rails application platform Heroku. This is a quick post to look at how this can make a big difference to the ecosystem of developers out there who make their living using these tools. Fellow New Zealand company Trineo is

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December 8, 2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Salesforce buys Heroku – Will This Give Them the Developer Cred? A Q&A with Salesforce

By Ben Kepes

Just yesterday I was talking with some people attending the annual salesforce.com conference and commented that at the developer event on Monday there seemed a distinct lack of the feisty young developers that hackathons normally attract. I was surprised to hear that at the hackathon itself there were very few

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December 7, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FinancialForce Acquires Appirio PSA

By Ben Kepes

I’ve covered professional services automation (PSA) software previously – NetSuite created some news awhile back when they acquired OpenAir sold it as a module to their ERP offering. This morning FinancialForce is announcing that they have acquired the PSA solution originally developed by Appirio. FinancialForce says that it is making

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December 7, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

M-Files Introduces Document Management for Salesforce

By Ben Kepes

I’ve previously covered M-Files, an application that enables companies to organize and manage company documents and information on cloud servers. Today Motive Systems, the company behind M-Files, is previewing it Salesforce integration. The idea is to create a one stop salesforce management solution that includes the organization and management 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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