Monthly Archives: January 2012

January 31, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

BMC Heads Down the Foodchain and To The Cloud with Numara Acquisition

By Ben Kepes

BMC Software yesterday announced the acquisition of mid-market IT management provider Numara Software. It’s an interesting move for this decidedly enterprise-level provider and one that sees them make two distinct moves – firstly into the cloud in a big way and secondly down the food chain o offer a mid-market

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January 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Assistly rebrands as Desk.com. Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

It was only a few months that salesforce acquired Assistly (more here) but already we see the product relaunching under its new corporate overlords. Rebranded desk.com, the offering has been rebuilt from the ground up including an all new UI, a new HTML5 mobile app and a range of new

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January 30, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

An Awesome CloudU Testimonial

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU.  How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find.  If that’s your cup of tea, you can

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January 27, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

On Privacy, and Software Vendor’s Access to Customer Data

By Ben Kepes

A mini firestorm broke out recently when 37Signals posted about their 2011 growth statistics. As part of the post, 37Signals told the world that the 100 millionth file to be uploaded to their software was the picture of a cat. Naturally those who subscribe to conspiracy theories got all fired

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January 26, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

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January 25, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Xero Market Update–Hockeystick Achieved

By Ben Kepes

Xero has just given a market update in advance of heir partner conference next week. The numbers are all heading in the right direction despite the fact that Xero is yet to break even – previous market announcements indicated that Xero was following a strategy that put market growth ahead

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January 25, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

MinuteDock Launches on Intuit’s Partner Platform

By Ben Kepes

Exciting times today for the team from MinuteDock (more on them here) the neat little time trapping application from my own hometown, Wellington, New Zealand. Formerly a product that was primarily intended for users of the Xero accounting product, MinuteDock is broadening its approach and is now tightly integrated with

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January 25, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FireHost Switches on European Cloud Hosting. But What Does “Secure: Actually Mean

By Ben Kepes

FireHost (more on them here) a cloud company that is targeting large companies with particular compliance and high traffic needs – customers span the eCommerce, SaaS, healthcare and security areas is today announcing the opening of its European operations. It’s an exciting move, especially for someone who has a penchant

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January 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Huddle Fights to Gain Viral Uptake

By Ben Kepes

  In a world where new entrants are trying to break the near-hegemony that Microsoft SharePoint has in enterprise content management, the new generation of vendors is painfully aware that they are in a death race to build momentum. Revenue comes secondary to increasing the viral spread of their products

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January 23, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

FreeAgent Eases Life for Freelancers and their Expenses Conundrum

By Ben Kepes

Like many freelancers, I incur significant expenses in the course of my contracting work and have to on-charge these expenses to clients. Ideally I’d tick a box in my accounting application and that would allow that cost to flow through to a client invoice without me having to enter it

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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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