Tag Archives: Google Apps Marketplace

May 16, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A OneLogin Update

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months identifying some underlying themes within the cloud space, and some corresponding big opportunities which dropout of those themes. One bucket of opportunities that I’m excited about is services that straddle a number of different IT resources – this could

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January 9, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Google Apps Marketplace–Chances of Survival

By Ben Kepes

Over on his blog, VC Brad Feld posted about the experience of three of his portfolio companies being part of the Google Apps Marketplace – Spanning, Yesware and Attachments are all built on top of Google Apps and Feld is particularly positive about their experience; While Google has been building

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December 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Okta Focuses on Application Discovery and Self-Service

By Ben Kepes

Okta (more coverage here) is this morning announcing a new self-service capability built upon its own Okta Application Network,a pre-integrated package of multiple business and consumer applications in one hit. The idea here is that enterprise IT organizations will be able to publish their own custom application catalog and then

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July 3, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloud Sherpas Acquires WaveAdept

By Ben Kepes

Now that someone with lower respect for embargoes has broken the news, there’s nothing stopping me from talking about the latest acquisition for US based Google Apps reseller Cloud Sherpas. Cloud Sherpas is a company I’ve written about before, they’ve got a smart approach towards being a reseller in the

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June 14, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Integration is Great Xero. What of Those Security Issues Though?

By Ben Kepes

A year ago I remarked upon Xero’s entry to the Google apps marketplace congratulating Xero for being part of the Google initiative but questioning why the integration wasn’t deeper. As I said at the time; I clicked the link and was taken to a Google Apps Marketplace page which was

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May 9, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud Sherpas Update

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Cloud Sherpas the company that has built an advanced administrator toolset for Google Apps. originally the toolset was an add-on to their own Google Apps reseller business, it seems to have grown well beyond that. Cloud Sherpas are announcing today that their SherpaTools product has been

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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 10, 2011 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Salesforce, Seesmic and ManyMoon–Good Move or Kool Aide Consumption?

By Ben Kepes

A few days ago salesforce.com announced that it had acquired  social productivity application ManyMoon. Surprisingly the blogosphere remained relatively silent about the deal beyond a post by Klint who referenced Sameer Patel saying; With its strong project facilitation focus, Manymoon brings solid complementary ‘get-it-done’ functionality to a general purpose engagement

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October 12, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Brightpearl goes Google Marketplace – Now Available to US Customers

By Ben Kepes

Brightpearl, formerly called Pearl – is the little cloud ERP vendor that should really be way bigger than it is. As I’ve said previously; I’ve always thought of it as the little engine that could, with a team of only five people they have managed to build a solution that

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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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