Monthly Archives: May 2011

May 31, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Public Cloud/Private Cloud–A Redux

By Ben Kepes

While being an advocate and evangelist for all things cloud, and all things public cloud for that matter, I’m also a pragmatist. Private cloud, while not meeting some theoretical utopian ideal, has value and validity and is driving benefits for organizations across the globe. No matter what the puritans might

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May 30, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zuora and NetSuite–Synergies

By Ben Kepes

One of the multitude of announcements at SuiteWorld last week was the release of a new combined solution for NetSuite customers that integrated Zuora’s subscription and billing offering with NetSuite’s ERP. While the news is a week old already – I keep a watching brief on the subscription and billing

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May 27, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acumatica Update

By Ben Kepes

It’s been six months or so since I spoke with mid-market ERP vendor Acumatica (much more on them here) so I was please to spend some time with them last week getting an update about how they’re going. As a reminder Acumatica is an interesting ERP vendor whose main differentiator

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May 25, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Apigee Ups the API Game–Big Time

By Ben Kepes

A month or so ago I moderated an interesting roundtable on focus.com that looked at the API Economy. Along with panelists Sam Ramji from Apigee, Mike Maney from Alcatel-Lucent and Delyn Simons from Mashery, we talked a bunch about the API economy, the risks and rewards and where the value

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May 25, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OKTA Goes Free Trial for Identity Management

By Ben Kepes

I wrote a little while ago about the “salesforce.com mafia”. One of those I profiled back then was Okta founder Todd McKinnon, I spent some time talking to McKinnon the other day, in advance of the release of Okta’s free trial of its SSO product. The timing for our discussion

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May 24, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Xero and the US Market

By Ben Kepes

In the four or so years since Xero launched with great fanfare in New Zealand, moved on to Australia and gained a modicum of visibility in the UK, many of us have been waiting to see what would happen in he REAL market, that of the US. While I personally

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May 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Toyota Chatter–to Salesforce it Matters

By Ben Kepes

News off the wire today that Salesforce.com and Toyota have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Toyota create a private social network for car owners built on top of Chatter. First some detail of the deal, according to the release; Toyota Friend will be a private social network that

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May 20, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

NetSuite and the Ecosystem

By Ben Kepes

Last week at NetSuite’s SuiteWorld conference I spent quite a bit of time talking with a variety of NetSuite ecosystem partners and having demos of different solutions. I also took part in a private briefing with the team that runs the developer network and has the responsibility for determining the

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May 19, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zenoss Rolls up to Join CloudFoundry Ecosystem

By Ben Kepes

One of the gambles open platforms make is that partners will rock up to build offerings on top of the platform. It must be every product manager’s worst nightmare to create a place that has little but tumbleweeds rolling around it. VMware is no exception and when they announced CloudFoundry

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May 18, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Coupa Gets New UI, and Guarantees Results

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Coupa, a provider of a SaaS product for controlling and streamlining purchase and expense management. When I first reviewed the product I had questions around the viability of a third party product offering these services – the way I saw it this was pretty much core

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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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