Category Archives: PaaS

October 12, 2009 Posted in Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud 5 Comments

Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

By Ben Kepes

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all

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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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November 26, 2008 Posted in IT, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

The Future of Accounting – Guest Post, Rod Drury

By Ben Kepes

As part of an Accounting 2.0 series I’m compiling over on CloudAve, I reached out to some accounting software visionaries to give us their take on the future of accounting/business software and how the eco system would look five or ten years out. Well know local (local in New Zealand)

October 1, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, PaaS, SaaS, The Cloud Leave a comment

Build the Marketplace and the Stallholders will come

By Ben Kepes

Zoho is launching their application marketplace today. Like other similar offerings, the Zoho location is a place where customers can come and browse different applications, try them out and buy them (or get ‘em for free in some cases). Think of it as iTunes for apps. The difference between Zoho’s

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September 11, 2008 Posted in Blogging, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 8 Comments

A new day, a new gig

By Ben Kepes

It’s a little bit later than expected but at last I’m happy to announce the creation of  CloudAve. Along with a great team of writers and researchers, Zoli Erdos as editor in chief and myself as editor will be creating what we hope will become the pre-eminent location for cloud computing

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August 8, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

In-depth with Benioff

By Ben Kepes

A hat tip to Daniel for pointing out that Sarah Lacy got to interview Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff – you ca tell that Sarah was please as punch to have got Benioff, she even dragged out her ladylike dress, the pearls and had her hair done for the day! It’s

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August 5, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 2 Comments

Dell – It’s all about proprietary

By Ben Kepes

This is one for the "wow that’s amazing file". It seems that Dell is attempting to trademark the term "cloud computing". Dell is defending it’s application noting that in the past twelve months (since the application has been in) no one has opposed it. Of course this logic smacks of

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July 29, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

ISV’s morphing to SaaS

By Ben Kepes

I’ve posted often abut the difficulties traditional ISV’s face when moving to an on-demand delivery. The recent announcement by Microsoft of it’s latest tranche of software+services offerings has further caused fear and consternation among a number of traditional vendors. It was interesting then to real Phil’s post about Synergation, a

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July 26, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

On Telcos and content

By Ben Kepes

.Lance posted about the fact that the iPhone is having difficulty coping with telco giant mobile content offerings over in Australia. Lance puts it better than I could when he says that; The news is that these services are not really wanted – and have only been used to date

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July 22, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Sometimes utilities go down…

By Ben Kepes

The blogosphere got in major panic this week when Amazon’s S3 online storage service went down for a number of hours. It seems there was around six hours of outage that had life threatening consequences – yes, worse than hospital power supplies being wiped out, worse than widespread transportation gridlock

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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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