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October 6, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Introduces Cloud and Social. My Perspective

By Ben Kepes

During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought the tech world to its knees, a number of announcements were made with the usual Ellison flourishes. Curiously these two massive announcements were

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September 6, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

DreamForce 2011–A Look Back

By Ben Kepes

Having just returned from my trip to the US for DreamForce, I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on the news (see here and here) from the event. I wanted to write up post that takes a more thoughtful look at what was, and was not, announced, and what

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August 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Scheduling Briefings at DreamForce

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me in San Francisco at salesforce’s DreamForce event. It’s always a crazy few days and judging by the quantity of briefing requests I’ve already received this year will be no exception. At this stage I have some spare tome on Tuesday afternoon and a little on Wednesday/Thursday.

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August 22, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Dreamforce 2011–A Look Ahead, and a Review of Last Year’s Predictions

By Ben Kepes

Last year was the first time I attended salesforce’s DreamForce global conference (at least in person). DreamForce is a pretty intense event – tens of thousands of people, the entire Moscone center and most hotels and hospitality establishments in the vicinity are fully booked to cater for the multitude of

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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.