Tag Archives: Application programming interface

April 30, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

By Ben Kepes

I’m a strong believer in the notion of social streaming tools for enterprise – I’ve seen how tools like Yammer can really drive productivity within small businesses. The problems come when these sorts of tools are rolled out into larger organizations where one of two things happen: No one uses

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April 26, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

TiimFocus Takes Aim at Asana

By Ben Kepes

One would be forgiven for thinking that the last thing the world need is yet another task scheduling web application. Between Asana, Do.com and the plethora of other solutions, it’s a particularly busy area. But one company, Australian based startup TiimFocus (yes, it’s a terrible name), believes it has its

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April 17, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Breaking – Intel Buys Mashery. Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

ReadWrite just broke the news that Intel is acquiring API management platform Mashery for an undisclosed amount. Intel was already an a partner with the company and last year announced the Intel Expressway API Manager, a joint solution designed to allow enterprises to leverage the on-premise back-end integrations that Intel

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April 12, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

OneNet Rolls Out LiveVault Service Provider Tools

By Ben Kepes

Perhaps one of the least sexy, yet most important parts of building a strong service-provider ecosystem is ensuring that all the infrastructure and tools needed for service providers to… provide their service, are in place. OneNet, a cloud vendor based in New Zealand, recently rolled out a series of tools

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April 3, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

MuleSoft Launches New Integration Platform and Announces Massive Funding Round

By Ben Kepes

Cloud an on-premise integration vendor MuleSoft (more on them here) is today announcing a massive funding round and also the launch of a new integration platform that it believes will solve the issues that organizations face in their attempt to integrate disparate services. The tl:dr version of the announcement is

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April 1, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Being Part of an API-Based Ecosystem

By Ben Kepes

Much hand wringing and gnashing of teeth has occurred in the past around the Twitter ecosystem as slowly but surely Twitter identifies opportunities for development that sometimes encroach upon the functionality delivered by their ecosystem partners. Whether it’s buying a twitter service, which immediately skews the playing field for other

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March 28, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle’s FUD and Gangnam Style

By Ben Kepes

Recently Oracle released it’s first update to MySQL in two years. This release was, at least in part, a response to the huge uptake of NoSQL databases and the move away from traditional structured databases for many applications. I was approached by Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold who believes that the

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February 28, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

By Ben Kepes

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of the princely $10M funding round the company had just raised. As

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February 20, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Is Cloud A Revolution Or An Evolution?

By Ben Kepes

One of the reasons for setting up the CloudU program and certificate was a desire to scale the one-on-one work I do helping small and large businesses and the people that work within them understand what the cloud actually is. This is made all the more necessary because of the

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January 11, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators, Part Two

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take the time to report the two part interview – it’s long

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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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