Tag Archives: enterprise

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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September 26, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility

By Ben Kepes

An interesting recent trend I’ve been seeing is that of new vendors differentiating their cloud service through giving customers ultimate flexibility around what they use on their cloud – rather than shoehorning them into a couple of OS options, or a few pre-defined server sizes and specs, these vendors provide

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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 30, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

By Ben Kepes

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the judges in the Structure Launchpad gave Cloudability – and we both

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March 30, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Forklifting Apps to the Cloud – Realistic or Not?

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago, the shock du jour was the (slightly tongue in cheek) resignation by Christian Reilly from his (very tongue in cheek) position of President of the Private Cloud. There needs to be a little background to this – Christian is something of an anomaly in the industry,

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June 13, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

McKinsey on SaaS

By Ben Kepes

RobinB sent me the latest McKinsey enterprise software report. It makes for interesting reading and will validate what SaaS vendors already know. It’s very interesting that a large number of respondents described SaaS as the most important trend impacting the business, this shows that SaaS goes beyond simply another way

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April 14, 2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Scoble on Google for Enterprise…

By Ben Kepes

Robert Scoble has an interesting perspective on Google’s moves into enterprise over here. His comments come after seeing a demo of a Cemaphore product called MailShadow for Google Apps, which synchronizes email and calendar items between Microsoft Outlook and Exchange and Gmail/Google Calendar. Now there are already products that do

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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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