Monthly Archives: March 2011

March 31, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ShareFile Goes Mobile–Kind Of

By Ben Kepes

This morning ShareFile, a file sharing and collaboration company that I’ve covered before (and ranted about once), is today launching mobile applications for iOS and Android devices. The apps are live on the Android App Store right now and already sent for Apple’s inquisition approval process, so iPhone and iPad

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March 30, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Salesforce Acquires Radian6–Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

Salesforce.com this morning announced plans to acquire social media monitoring company Radian6 for around $330M in cash and stock. In a move somewhat different from previous acquisitions, salesforce is reacting to quiet criticism from the community and indicating a clear integration path with this deal. Salesforce is intending on utilizing

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March 30, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Forklifting Apps to the Cloud – Realistic or Not?

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago, the shock du jour was the (slightly tongue in cheek) resignation by Christian Reilly from his (very tongue in cheek) position of President of the Private Cloud. There needs to be a little background to this – Christian is something of an anomaly in the industry,

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March 29, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

CentralDesktop for Marketing Agencies

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written previously about CentralDesktop the cloud based collaboration application, has just rolled out a new version, specifically targeted at marketing agencies. The collaboration for marketing agencies approach isn’t novel, late last year PBWorks introduced a similar offering. In this case, CentralDesktop’s “Common Ground” edition allows agencies to perform the

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March 28, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Commodity Clouds for the Enterprise–Inside the Economics

By Ben Kepes

Recently at the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Randy Bias, co-founder of cloud builder Cloudscaling gave a fascinating talk which sought to dispel many of the myths around enterprise cloud computing. Bias’ talk is an excellent way to spend ten minutes – I’d recommend watching it below. Cloudscaling is

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March 26, 2011 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Property Rights, Due Process and Justice. Let’s Fight this Case!

By Ben Kepes

My post yesterday about our demolition experience in Christchurch certainly touched a nerve – the comments, Facebook likes, retweets et al have shown just how important this is to people. I read last night another article which showed just how bad things ar e for some people. It seems that

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March 25, 2011 Posted in Business 79 Comments

Something is Rotten in the State of Christchurch

By Ben Kepes

I thought it time to write another update in my infrequent Christchurch Earthquake category (see more here). This one is unfortunately a tale of woe. Last week, while I was in the US, my business partner sent me an email to tell me that our building in Lichfield Street was

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March 25, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

On SaaS Pricing, Functionality and Risk Aversion

By Ben Kepes

Lots of SaaS accounting news at the moment – from Saasu, Xero and MYOB. Firstly Australian SaaS accounting vendor Saasu (more on them here) recently announced a change to its pricing. Already one of the most economically priced offerings in the marketplace (and I use those words purposely to differentiate

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March 24, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Social is About Engagement–NZHerald Makes that Too Hard

By Ben Kepes

Last week while attending SXSW I was invited to the party being hosted by The Small Business Web. While there I was given a copy of Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book, The Thank You Economy. Most people will know of Vaynerchuk as the hugely successful new media proponent who has leveraged

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March 23, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Liquidity for Liquid

By Ben Kepes

The UK market is surprisingly flush with SMB accounting vendors – I lose track of just how many there are and each week seems to see another one launch. One of the more mature of the vendors is LiquidAccounts, a product that came out of the parent company’s experience building

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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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