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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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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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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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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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July 18, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Office productivity apps analysis

By Ben Kepes

Raju posted about an InfoWorld analysis of alternatives to MS office. What makes the analysis interesting is that for the first time (that I’ve seen) cloud based and Open Source products have been evaluated side by side. As is often the case with these sorts of analyses, it’s what is

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May 10, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS Leave a comment

Another word-esque development from Google docs

By Ben Kepes

Announced today that Google docs now supports customisation of style sheets. This change opens up the templating and styling options that have always been available in word, but does so obviously in an easy to collaborate, available anywhere, in the clouds way. See some examples over here. I have to

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