Tag Archives: Microsoft SharePoint

May 22, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ShareFile Ties into the Hairball – Embraces legacy Storage

By Ben Kepes

Let’s face it, traditional enterprise data storage solutions tend to be big, inflexible and difficult to use. There’s a reason that Dropbox, Box and all the other “modern” collaboration solutions have had such strong growth – they may lack some of the bells and whistles of the traditional solutions but

Tagged , , , , , , , |
March 15, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On IT’s Influence on Technology Buying Decisions. Role #1: Get Out of the way

By Ben Kepes

Recently I came across a blog post written by Mark Pascall from web development company 3Months. Pascall was reflecting on what he’s noticed while looking at RFP/RFI documentation and associated briefings. His location means that much of this work comes from Government organizations and with this comes a tendency to

Tagged , , , |
October 2, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

BoxWorks 2012–Predictions and Prognostications

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me in San Francisco for the annual Box user conference (disclosure – Box is covering my T&E account), it’s an interesting time for the company, only a couple of weeks ago Salesforce stole some of their thunder by announcing a file sync and collaboration tool. BoxWorks is

Tagged , , , , , , |
June 25, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis

By Ben Kepes

So Microsoft has confirmed the rumored acquisition of Yammer for $1.2B. Here’s my thoughts; Potentially this is a great opportunity for MSFT to create a fabric that spans their different enterprise products (Dynamics, Office, SharePoint) that’s a big big opportunity but I believe technology and platform hurdles will push that

Tagged , , , , , , , |
March 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

YouSendIt Moves Focus from Send to Share

By Ben Kepes

One of the companies that has, until now, been left behind amidst all the attention given to the file collaboration and sharing vendors is YouSendIt. While the charismatic founders of Box and DropBox, Aaron Levie and Drew Houston respectively, articulate a vision of interconnectedness and the end of emailing files

Tagged , , , , , |
February 21, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Huddle Ups the Ante with Intelligent File Synchronization

By Ben Kepes

Content collaboration is an area of rapid development and organizations seek to manage the complexities of agile project approaches, distributed teams, a deluge of information and ever increasing complexity. One of the key drivers and challenges of this is the move to a more mobile work force with employees needing

Tagged , , , , , , |
January 24, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Huddle Fights to Gain Viral Uptake

By Ben Kepes

  In a world where new entrants are trying to break the near-hegemony that Microsoft SharePoint has in enterprise content management, the new generation of vendors is painfully aware that they are in a death race to build momentum. Revenue comes secondary to increasing the viral spread of their products

Tagged , , , , , , |
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

Tagged , , , , , , , |
October 5, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Huddle Riding a Wave–Collaboration to the World (of Enterprise)

By Ben Kepes

Reflecting on the recent BoxWorks conference that I was unfortunately not able to attend, Krish commented on Box’s increasing adoption by enterprise saying that; I am convinced about the traction Box is getting in this space. Starting with companies like P&G to Six Flags, the companies were completely confident about

Tagged , , , , , , |
November 8, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

SocialText on Barriers to Adoption, and Why Consultants Miss the Point

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time last week talking to Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText and very much a luminary in the Enterprise 2.0 space. The reason for the call was to get an advance briefing about SocialText’s latest product release, a release that sees them further their aim to be a

Tagged , , , , , , |

The Author

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.

Schedule some time to talk to me here.

More about Ben here.

Want to find me across the social web? Click below

    

Subscribe to the Blog

 Subscribe - Posts for all authors

Enter your email address and we'll send our posts to you: