Category Archives: IT

September 14, 2010 Posted in Business, Governance, IT, The Cloud Leave a comment

AdaptiveComputing Scores A Round – VC’s Back in Force

By Ben Kepes

I vaguely remember some time a year or so ago when VC funding of companies slowed down a little. It seems that little dip has well and truly passed – every week I’m receiving many email detailing another funding round. This morning it was the turn of StorSimple, now AdaptiveComputing

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September 7, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, My businesses, New Zealand 3 Comments

Time for a the BNZ Rant, They Don’t Get It….

By Ben Kepes

My fellow blogger Lance Wiggs tends to be a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to banks in new Zealand, in light of the fact that he’s sitting somewhere in the middle of Africa, I figured I’d take up the baton. I’ve banked with the Bank of New Zealand

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August 26, 2009 Posted in IT 9 Comments

Dell Adamo – Slim and Svelte

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago my friends at Dell graciously agreed to send me an Adamo to test for a couple of weeks – to be honest I’d have rather they just made it an open ended deal but ah well, you can’t have everything… For those of you who haven’t

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August 24, 2009 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 18 Comments

BNZ, Outsourcing Design to Xero

By Ben Kepes

The Bank of New Zealand is a reasonably significant shareholder in Xero and so many of us expected that they’d be working together on the odd project. What we didn’t expect was that the bank would seemingly outsource their web design to Xero but it looks very much like they

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August 6, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

Trineo – Heading for the Big Time

By Ben Kepes


A few months ago I wrote a href="http://www.cloudave.com/link/making-crm-work-for-verticals"
target="_blank">post discussing some interesting vertical offerings that I’d seen built on top of the class="zem_slink" href="http://www.salesforce.com/"
rel="homepage"
title="Salesforce">salesforce.com platform. I alluded to a new offering that was, at that time in stealth mode – the company behind that offering, Trineo has been invited to San Francisco next week to pitch to a panel of investment and IT gurus, including class="zem_slink" href="http://www.sequoiacap.com/"
rel="homepage"
title="Sequoia Capital">Sequoia Capital, as part of the final selection process for the Force 40 Innovation Showcase competition, run by class="zem_slink" href="http://www.salesforce.com/"
rel="homepage" title="Salesforce">Salesforce.com as part of their Dreamforce conference in November.



Trineo is a development and


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June 15, 2009 Posted in Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, IT, My businesses, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 2 Comments

Government 2.0 – A Way to Go

By Ben Kepes

Jim posted the incredible story of the New Zealand Immigration Service (NZIS) proposing a $117 million upgrade of IT infrastructure, a sum that equates, from Jim’s reckoning, to $234k per NZIS process worker. It’s a sorry tale and one that, as Jim points out, smacks of desperation, silo building and

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May 12, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS Leave a comment

SmartPayroll Gets on the Service Theme

By Ben Kepes

I don’t blog often over here on Diversity any more – CloudAve takes much of my attention these days. Diversity is more about an opportunity for me to be opinionated or to tell stories of Kiwi success stories – I try and do that over on CloudAve too but for

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April 20, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand 2 Comments

Conferences – Not a Zero Sum Game

By Ben Kepes

It’s been a big year of conferences for me so far – both domestic and international. It’s been great fun – busy but fun. I’ve been fortunate to have covered two New Zealand events for Idealog magazine. Webstock in Wellington and Web09 in Auckland. Webstock is a seasoned event, polished

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March 4, 2009 Posted in IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

A New Learning Resource from LearningSource

By Ben Kepes

After many months spent in super stealth mode, Another local SaaS product is coming out from under the covers. Training management system vendor LearningSource has gone public with their offering. Learning Source is a fully featured, end-to-end training management system that LearningSource believe will; streamline business processes help manage business

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February 13, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand 2 Comments

Win Free Software!

By Ben Kepes

Just a reminder that over on bizchat there is a cool competition for kiwi businesses. Every month for the next twelve months one community member will win a; 12 month subscription to Xero 12 month subscription to iPayroll 12 month subscription to WorkflowMax 12 month subscription to the Zoho suite

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