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March 27, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud’s Secret Sauce–Zendesk Delivers Best Practice Analytics and Customer Satisfaction Data

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long said that one of the key benefits of cloud applications is the ability of vendors to aggregate and anonymize data from their users, and to offer this anonymized aggregated data back to users who can then derive insights from comparisons between themselves and other vendors. It’s an area

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January 25, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

MinuteDock Launches on Intuit’s Partner Platform

By Ben Kepes

Exciting times today for the team from MinuteDock (more on them here) the neat little time trapping application from my own hometown, Wellington, New Zealand. Formerly a product that was primarily intended for users of the Xero accounting product, MinuteDock is broadening its approach and is now tightly integrated with

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August 5, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

QuoteRoller Eases the Quote to Contract Process

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I discover a little application that really reminds me just how enabling technology can be, specially for small and medium businesses. This enablement is powered by varying degrees of some different themes – the cloud, mobile computing, ubiquitous internet access and the world of APIs. It’s

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June 7, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Intuit Rolls Out Anywhere–QuickBooks Integration, Anywhere

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written at length previously about the Intuit Partner Platform, a platform that aims to allow third party developers to build solutions that integrate with QuickBooks. I’ve always loved the concept of IPP – I believe that, especially for SMB customers, providing a rich common data model is key to

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March 16, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Friends Helping Friends–Google Joins The Small Business Web

By Ben Kepes

I’m sitting in a panel at SXSW watching Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead, Google Enterprise question a select group of representatives from companies creating applications for SMBs. The topic of this panel is Friends with Business Benefits: How Integrations Sell Apps. On the panel are people from FreshBooks, MailChimp,

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February 8, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

FreshBooks Adds an App Store

By Ben Kepes

Big news this morning from FreshBooks, the Canadian SaaS invoicing company that boasts over two million customers, are announcing the availability of their very own app store – yes, just when you thought there weren’t enough app stores in the world, FreshBooks gives us another one. But this is quite

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July 20, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreshBooks Integrates with Salesforce. Democratization in Action

By Ben Kepes

This morning FreshBooks, the SaaS invoicing application that boasts hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide, will launch it’s integration with salesforce.com/ Normally another integration from FreshBooks,  company that prides itself on integrating with almost every SaaS player in the marketplace, wouldn’t raise any eyebrows – but this is interesting given

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Business, SaaS, Society, The Cloud 1 Comment

Money 2.0 Panel

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just finished moderating the Money 2.0 panel at the Office 2.0 conference. We were a little time-compressed as the previous session had run late. All in all it went pretty well. The participants were; Aaron Forth (Mint.com) Marc Hedlund (Wesabe) Justin Kitch (Intuit) Jeff Schultz (Bill.com) Mike McDerment (FreshBooks)

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September 1, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy 5 Comments

Seven founders sins

By Ben Kepes

I’m looking forward to meeting the founder of FreshBooks Mike Mcderment next week at the Office 2.0 conference. I’ve spent a heap of time watching and talking to the founders and CEOs of other SaaS businesses generally and SaaS accounting businesses in particular so I’m really looking forward to getting

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August 29, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

On to it with Intuit

By Ben Kepes

As mentioned before I’ll be moderating the Money 2.0 panel at the upcoming Office 2.0 conference. I’ve just been told that joining the other panelists will be Justin Kitch, the head of SMB SaaS for Intuit. Kitch is formerly CEO of Homestead which was recently acquired by Intuit. The entire

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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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