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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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February 12, 2013 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Dropbox Listens to the Criticism–Starts to Mature Corporate Product

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been a harsh critic of Dropbox in the past – mostly because I feel they lack maturity – both as a company and as a product – and this lack of maturity is a real risk for enterprise customers using their product. It seems Dropbox has been listening to

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February 9, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Google Drive, and Core Focus, and Dropbox

By Ben Kepes

News today (admittedly for the umpteenth time in the last few years) that Google looks likely to finally roll out its cloud storage product, G Drive. According to the WSJ; Drive allows people to store photos, documents and videos on Google’s servers so that they could be accessible from any

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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 16, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

IBM Goes Deep with Cloud and Social

By Ben Kepes

At Lotusphere IBM is today announcing a host of new offerings aimed at seeing it gain some relevance in the social enterprise space. There are a heap of announcements but the highlights include; New social analytics software that integrates wikis, blogs, activity streams, email, calendaring, and flags relevant data for

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December 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Don’t Wait for the Pros, Experiment!

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report we talked about the fact that a lack of formal Cloud Computing qualifications is something of a barrier to organizations adopting the Cloud. It’s something we’re trying, in some small way, to address with the CloudU certificate, but nonetheless the fact remains that when it

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November 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Syncplicity moves to Document Lifecycle and Workflow

By Ben Kepes

I use a bunch of document and file synchronization, backup and collaboration tools. From SugarSync to Box.net, from Dropbox to Syncplicity I’ve pretty much used, and currently use, them all. One of the things that interests me from a business strategy perspective, is how companies that primarily sit in the

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October 13, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

About Cloud. And SaaS. And How “Big Apps” Will Always Stay Local

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been doing this whole SaaS thing for a few years now, and fondly remember at the start when people said that only the most svelte of applications (or, more correctly, the applications with the most svelte of payloads) would ever move to the cloud. The people who used to

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September 20, 2011 Posted in Business, Microsoft Word Leave a comment

What Does “Functionally Complete” Really Mean?

By Ben Kepes

Last week I wrote about some issues that were raised at a recent CloudCamp I ran in Australia. Last week I looked at the contention (of some) that Software as a Service (SaaS) is no more than the Application Service Provider (ASP) approach of the nineties, albeit with a different name. This week I want to [...]

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November 1, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Free Products, Open Standards and Why Google Apps Beats OpenOffice

By Ben Kepes

Andy posted a link to this Microsoft video. Now most people would agree that this is a strange thing for Microsoft to do – OpenOffice can hardly be  threat to the MS Office franchise and this just looks like the big boys getting heavy on the little guys. On 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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