Author Archives: The Unreasonablemen

October 7, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

Zoho – Another Approach to Sustainable Growth

By The Unreasonablemen

Phil Wainewright put up a very thought provoking post the other day, speculating if Zoho could outgrow Salesforce.com. A worthwhile read, the stand out bit being his summation; A disruptive model? Just as Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff dismisses conventional software vendors such as Oracle and SAP as dinosaurs on the

September 9, 2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chrome rounds out Google’s platform plays

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A year or so ago I went to a Salesforce.com event in which they trotted out a Google Apps exec to support their no software message.  The guy (I forget his name) was delayed coming into Sydney and so was pretty jet lagged. His only

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Business 3 Comments

I won’t be using Chrome.

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A couple of reasons. Firstly unlike Firefox and Safari and of course the corporate supported IE, it doesn’t seem to get past the companies proxy server.  Second, and most importantly to me I’m not prepared to give Google any more information about myself.  Don’t get

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September 2, 2008 Posted in Business 3 Comments

I think we’re safe minister

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I can’t help but comment on the hugely underwhelming version 2 of the digital strategy. As reported in the dominion post, the minster believes we are at no risk of having “inspiration fatigue”. I’d tend to agree…. For those who missed it, the article

September 2, 2008 Posted in Design, IT 4 Comments

I’m fed up with Marketers

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from unreasonablemen.net I think they’ve got a lot to answer for. IT is such a hype driven industry and its all because of the marketers hyperbole. Massively over used terms like ‘revolutionary’, ‘next generation’ and ‘2.0’ are thrown around incessantly. All they do is confuse our clients

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August 8, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, Web x.0 Leave a comment

The Internet is not flat

By The Unreasonablemen

I’ve written before about the fact that SaaS companies need to think a lot more about the infrastructure that brings their customers to them – that infrastructure (mainly) being the Internet. One of the things that I hadn’t thought about, but that came up in discussions with people about networks,

July 8, 2008 Posted in Business 11 Comments

People, you’ve only got yourselves to blame.

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net Vodafone NZ’s iPhone pricing has become so topical we even made some US news wires…well done but I’m sorry you only have yourselves to blame… I told a couple of you repeatedly that it is just a phone. And you kept giving me the

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July 3, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy 11 Comments

Office by subscription? What?

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the Unreasonablemen.net News out today that Microsoft is going to offer to sell some versions of its desktop software on a subscription basis. This will be done in typical MS fashion under a cool product name “Equipt”. Confusingly some are calling this part of their S+S

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July 2, 2008 Posted in SaaS 2 Comments

Can Google go Enterprise?

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There’s a growing opinion that the answer to that is no. Om Malik got stuck into Gmail last week. How is one supposed to run a business on such an unreliable platform? The integration of Google’s services remains a distant dream, reminding us of

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June 27, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, Strategy 4 Comments

Low risk plays provide no differentiation

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest  post from the Unreasonablemen.net This might be obvious but I see it time and time again. Old world companies are so fixated on risk that they are going nowhere. Old world companies behaviour can be characterised by panic, followed by engaging consultants and outsourcing to drive down cost

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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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