Tag Archives: Facebook

July 16, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Primadesk Brings One Interface to Cloud Content

By Ben Kepes

Those who call ourselves early adopters have a tendency to sign up to services on a regular basis. If I think about where my own content sits – I have images in Picasa, Flickr and Facebook. Documents in Google Drive, DropBox, Box and Syncplicity, contacts in at least a couple

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June 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Garantia–Scaling and Protecting In-Memory NoSQL

By Ben Kepes

Note – this is (kind of) a repost – I was asked by Garantia’s PR company to pull an earlier post and publish this as the company gets ready to demo at Structure – that’s a highly unusual request but one I chose to follow out of respect to the

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June 19, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Ex Jive CMO Comes Back with Awesome Sales Tool–Crushpath

By Ben Kepes

Three or years ago I went out on a limb criticizing the new startup of ex Jive CMO Sam Lawrence – Blackbox Republic was a site that was going to reinvent online relationships for “sex positive” individuals. I was dismissive, and took some heat for being so. What I wasn’t

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June 14, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Intuit Drops the Partner Platform–Retreats from a Federated Ecosystem Approach

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written at length about the Intuit Partner Platform – it seemed to me the best approach by a traditional accounting vendor to provide a compelling offering in an increasingly SaaS-based world. the IPP allowed third organizations to use third party SaaS applications alongside their core QuickBooks data, all the

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January 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Assistly rebrands as Desk.com. Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

It was only a few months that salesforce acquired Assistly (more here) but already we see the product relaunching under its new corporate overlords. Rebranded desk.com, the offering has been rebuilt from the ground up including an all new UI, a new HTML5 mobile app and a range of new

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November 16, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Social Revolution

By Ben Kepes

I generally don’t go in for the hand waving around social for business. While I’m a proponent of social, I like to see proof before I announce the revolution. There’s nothing I hate more than the social media gurus who seem to want to pigeon-hole organizations into standards tools and

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September 22, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Salesforce Acquires Assistly… Anyone Else See a Disconnect?

By Ben Kepes

News that salesforce has acquired service desk vendor Assistly in a move that many of us had an inkling about well before DreamForce – it seems that dotting the I’s and crossing the t’s of the deal saw it closing after the event. Assistly is a young company that is

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May 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Toyota Chatter–to Salesforce it Matters

By Ben Kepes

News off the wire today that Salesforce.com and Toyota have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Toyota create a private social network for car owners built on top of Chatter. First some detail of the deal, according to the release; Toyota Friend will be a private social network that

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March 1, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Microsoft and the Small Business Cloud War. Because Not Only Millennials Drive Change

By Ben Kepes

Last week was a little humorous. Across my desk came a Forbes.com article stating that “Microsoft will win the small business cloud war”. In the article Gene Marks tells of a visit to a small town in the US where he finds Jared Morgan from Bradshaw & Weil insurance agency

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February 18, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Service-now Goes Social

By Ben Kepes

Service-now is just announcing their Winter 2011 release and, true to the trend du jour, their ITSM offering is chock full of social features. I’ve written about Service-now, a SaaS for enterprise IT management vendor, previously. With this release, they’re trying to jump on a bandwagon given that ultimate 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.

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