Category Archives: SaaS

July 13, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews, SaaS 2 Comments

AffinityLive – PSA For Us All

By Ben Kepes

I posted recently about OpenAir, NetSuite’s PSA offering. Hot on the heels of that I talked with Geoff McQueen, founder of Hiive Systems an Australian vendor who is bringing its own PSA solution to market later this year. Geoff gave me a deep dive into their offering, AfifinityLive and despite

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July 6, 2010 Posted in Business, marketing, SaaS 9 Comments

How Software SHOULDN’T Be Sold

By Ben Kepes

I’m a member of the school of though that says that SaaS brings true value to a small business. As such it troubles me when I see people selling based primarily on price – it does them, and the industry, a disservice. I’ve posted about this previously, begging vendors to articulate the value of their apps.

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June 26, 2010 Posted in enterprise, SaaS 2 Comments

Convergence? Or a Quasi Suite

By Ben Kepes

For awhile now I’ve been writing about suite vs best of breed. My thoughts have admittedly wavered a little bit, on the one hand I am a believer in the web being the platform, but on the other I’ve got extensive experience with the nightmare that is tying apps together.

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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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September 29, 2009 Posted in Business, Product reviews, SaaS 2 Comments

Dremus Goes 2.0

By Ben Kepes

I got an email the other day telling me that Dremus has just released it’s 2.0 offering (review of the 1.0 offering here). The new version takes the existing functionality and adds to it the following; – More free Themes – More options for accepting payments (gateways) – Introduction of

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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"
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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/"
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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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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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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 12, 2009 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS 4 Comments

Another Local Payroll Entrant

By Ben Kepes

Awhile ago I wrote about iPayroll, a local SaaS payroll provider. New to the scene comes Flexitime, another payroll option. Whereas iPayroll is an official IRD intermediary, meaning that they can act as a company’s proxy when dealing with the IRD, Flexitime is a standalone service which means companies will

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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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