Tag Archives: Google apps

March 14, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Enterprises Moving Away from Microsoft Office–But Will They Continue to Do So?

By Ben Kepes

Recently I was sent a link to some survey results from BetterCloud. BetterCloud is a company making management and security tools for Google Apps – they recently raised $5M in venture funding and have tools deployed across 15000 companies and six million users. Anyway – BetterCloud often runs surveys on

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January 16, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acquisition News – Cloud Sherpas Broadens the Franchise and Moves Into ITSM

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been covering Cloud Sherpas since its inception – I’m particularly interested in this new breed of services brokerage that is proving successful despite deriving its revenue from a small sliver of a very small annual charge – this in comparison to the traditional on-premise world where companies enjoyed massive

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December 20, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Cloud Sherpas–$40M in Funding and Another Aquisition

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been following Google Apps and Salesforce reseller Cloud Sherpas since it launched a few years ago – in that time I’ve seen them acquire companies globally and grow into a real force in the space. I’m always a little dubious about how much long term viability there is in

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June 29, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Moving To The Cloud – Internal Business Considerations

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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May 31, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Cloud – It’s Not About Cost

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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May 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Issues Around Cloud Adoption – Part Two

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,

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March 15, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudSherpas and GlobalOne Merge–It’s a Services RollUp

By Ben Kepes

I was speaking with some folks in the cloud services game the other day about the state of the industry and the key theme in our conversation was that it’s absolutely a land grab out there. Cloud is a nascent but rapidly growing field and if the predictions that everyone

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February 8, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Google Apps Security Tool from BetterCloud

By Ben Kepes

One of the key issues for organizations moving to Google for office productivity applications is the ability to enforce policy on end users around sharing outside of the organization. This issue is a good example of the tension that exists between keeping an offering as simple as possible, and ensuring

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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 19, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Considerations–A Need for Clarity

By Ben Kepes

As I travel around talking to organizations and the decision makers within them about Cloud Computing, I find myself enumerating a list of benefits that many of us believe come with Cloud Computing. The list includes scalability, economic benefits, the ability to focus on core business, etc. I must have

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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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