Tag Archives: Australasia

December 16, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Fairfax Selling Remaining TradeMe Shares–My Two Cents

By Ben Kepes

Big news in Australasia this weekend was the planned sale of the remaining 51% that Fairfax still holds in TradeMe. Lance Wiggs has been doing the rounds of the media outlets with the view that the move is “absolutely bonkers”. At first look it’s hard to argue with that, until

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July 12, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

CCH Acquires Acclipse Limited–Accounting Vertical Gets Converged

By Ben Kepes

Big news in the accounting space with the announcement that CCH, a division of the international group Wolters Kluwer is acquiring software vendor Acclipse. Acclipse sells practice management software under the iFirm brand, and announced a few months ago the intention to roll out a client side accounting solution. Acclipse

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May 29, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Migration – The Pain And The Opportunity

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can

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January 3, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

By Ben Kepes

It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its home market of Australia and New Zealand, MYOB is facing a

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August 22, 2011 Posted in Business 8 Comments

On the Sale of MYOB Again. Bain’s Strategy–Acquisition of Australasian Cloud Players?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been commenting over the past week or so about the long saga around the sale of Australasian accounting vendor MYOB. At the same time other vendors have taken the opportunity to suggest what they believe is happening – in part relating to the situation in terms of traditional private

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July 22, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Rolling out the Cloud to Australasia

By Ben Kepes

Spending as much time as I do talking about the benefits of cloud computing, it’s sometimes a little frustrating living somewhere that is generally the last place in the world to have access to technological innovations. Case in point is the aforementioned cloud computing – while we can obviously make

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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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