Monthly Archives: March 2012

March 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

LiveMigrate Eases the MYOB to Xero Pathway

By Ben Kepes

I’m involved in a good half a dozen different businesses and do all the bookkeeping/accounting for most of them. Over the past 15 years I’ve got pretty comfortable with the main desktop accounting product in Australia/New Zealand, MYOB. Over the past five years or so I’ve used and reviewed pretty

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March 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Public, Private and Horses for Courses…

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,

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March 19, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

NetSuite and Oracle–Competition or Acquisition?

By Ben Kepes

It’s plainly clear that traditional software vendors can no long rubbish this new breed of Cloud vendors. While once Oracle, Microsoft and SAP could pour scorn at the little pests sniping at their ankles – today we have some impressive vendors waiting in the wings who look increasingly likely to

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March 15, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudSherpas and GlobalOne Merge–It’s a Services RollUp

By Ben Kepes

I was speaking with some folks in the cloud services game the other day about the state of the industry and the key theme in our conversation was that it’s absolutely a land grab out there. Cloud is a nascent but rapidly growing field and if the predictions that everyone

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March 15, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Broadens Both Down and Outwards with Rypple and Site.com

By Ben Kepes

I’m not in San Francisco for Salesforce’s CloudForce event, I decided to come directly home after SXSW instead. Rather I’m watching the live stream on Facebook – while the beer and party may only be virtual, the stream fidelity is pretty good otherwise. Anyway – two big announcements today, the

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March 13, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

On Geographic Flexibility–OxygenCloud Understands the Need

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written a lot lately about the need for cloud vendors to provide services that are tailored to specific countries or regions. Whether this is due to cross-cultural reasons or merely because of concerns around US located data, as a non US commentator I’m constantly talking with customers who want

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March 12, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Acclipse Rolls Out Client Side Application (Again)

By Ben Kepes

[Update - it turns out Acclipse have purchased an existing product with some 5 years development and the partnership with BankLink is for the bank feed part of the deal. I'll try and get my hands on the client side application to review] Acclipse is a New Zealand based accounting

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March 8, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Opa Aims to rethink Development for the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been researching a whitepaper for CloudU that looks at the different languages modern developers of cloud applications need to think about and it struck me that we’re running into some problems. While the myriad different components of web applications give great flexibility, they do little to hide the complexity

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March 7, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

That Old Cloud Cost Chestnut Again…

By Ben Kepes

Recently over on GigaOm, Charlie Oppenheimer wrote an extensive article looking at the relative costs of cloud versus self-hosting. It’s an excellently written article but one which in my (not so) humble opinion is flawed. Oppenheimer worked his calculations based on one particular vendor but my commentary that follows looks

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March 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Google Cloud Storage–Enterprise Announcements Roll In from Panzura and Zmanda

By Ben Kepes

We’ve been talking for years about Google offering a storage system to take on the likes of Box and DropBox. It’s an obvious development for the company who arguable has the best economics around data storage on earth. Last year we got an inkling of this direction with the release

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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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