Tag Archives: Enterprise resource planning

May 17, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part One

By Ben Kepes

My post-event thoughts from SuiteWorld are just too weighty for one post hence I’ll break up my analysis into two posts and give folks a chance to digest them over time. Here follows part one. I attended NetSuite’s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to

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April 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

NetSuite and eWinery Toast a Specific Solution for the Wine Industry

By Ben Kepes

Living as I do smack bang in the middle of a wine producing region, I’m always interested to see smart software being applied to the viticulture industry. Primary product is a very honest industry, but when that primary production is all about selling a product that is often differentiated on

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August 13, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Salesforce Launches Salesforce Communities

By Ben Kepes

Salesforce is this morning announcing a new product, Chatter Salesforce Communities, that aims to take the engagement aspects of its social tool Chatter out to specific verticals within organizations. Chatter SalesforceCommunities allows an organization to set up a specific community quickly – as an example it could be used to create

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July 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

By Ben Kepes

Last week say NetSuite report it’s Q2 revenue and earnings – hi level numbers include; Subscription and support revenue was $61.0 million, a 27 percent increase on an annual basis Cash flows from operations were $15.2 million, up by 80 percent from Q2 2011 While the specific numbers themselves are

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June 12, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Social – An Enterprise Overlay, or an Enterprise Fabric?

By Ben Kepes

On a recent trip to San Francisco I spent talking with both salesforce and NetSuite people about their approach and general view of “social” as it relates to enterprise software [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend and salesforce has funded my travel to DreamForce previously]. I call

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June 1, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Rise of Two Tier ERP and Larry Ellison’s NetSuite Intentions

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago I was in San Francisco for a few days for NetSuite’s SuiteWorld conference [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend]. One of the announcements at SuiteWorld was that of CTO Evan Goldberg who talked about “Multi Book Accounting”, as my colleague Phil Wainewright explains;

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May 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SuiteCommerce and the Value of End To End

By Ben Kepes

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld event recently [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend] the company announced SuiteCommerce an end-to-end solution that ties back end ERP functionality with customer facing e-commerce solutions that are optimized across any endpoint – desktop, mobile, tablet etc. It’s a compelling proposition and one which

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April 4, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Responding to Competition–In the Cloud World–It’s All About Raising the Tide

By Ben Kepes

I’m involved in a bunch of different cloud startups – either as a founder, an investor or an adviser. Many of these startups are actively working on disrupting more traditional incumbent players, while many face competition from other entrants in the space. A recent blog post from Neil Ballard was

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January 10, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Cloudwashing from SAP. Sigh

By Ben Kepes

“With SAP Business ByDesign, SAP was (and still is) the first company to release an ERP suite that users access and work with through the Internet.” Stuff like this frankly really peeves me. How long ago was it that the traditional vendors were decrying cloud as insecure, a waste of

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September 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acumatica Offers Manufacturing Software on Azure

By Ben Kepes

I have a bit of a particular interest in Cloud ERP providers moving into the manufacturing space. Manufacturing is a highly complex space and one where the traditional ERP vendors have a very strong position – manufacturing relies on complex interconnected functionalities and often needs the connection of multiple organizations,

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