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May 20, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part Two

By Ben Kepes

Part two of my post-SuiteWorld reflections I attended NetSuite‘s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to attend) and it has been interesting to reflect on a company that is unabashedly growing up. Having been at all of the previous global NetSuite events, it was impressive

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May 17, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part One

By Ben Kepes

My post-event thoughts from SuiteWorld are just too weighty for one post hence I’ll break up my analysis into two posts and give folks a chance to digest them over time. Here follows part one. I attended NetSuite’s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to

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May 8, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Looking Forward to GoogleIO and SuiteWorld

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me continue my US sojourn with stops at NetSuite‘s annual event SuiteWorld and the much-heralded Google developer event, GoogleIO. I’m going to write a compendium post about what I expect to see at these two very different events. Quick disclosure first – as is customary, Google and

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April 15, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

NetSuite and eWinery Toast a Specific Solution for the Wine Industry

By Ben Kepes

Living as I do smack bang in the middle of a wine producing region, I’m always interested to see smart software being applied to the viticulture industry. Primary product is a very honest industry, but when that primary production is all about selling a product that is often differentiated on

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April 8, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite Smacks SAP and Microsoft–Remains Surprisingly (Or Not) Silent on Oracle

By Ben Kepes

Recently NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson made a number of comments about NetSuite competitors. The comments, part of the company’s Q4 earnings call, were aimed at convincing the marketplace that both SAP and Microsoft have stumbled in their attempts to move to the cloud. In an interview that reflected on the

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April 3, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

MuleSoft Launches New Integration Platform and Announces Massive Funding Round

By Ben Kepes

Cloud an on-premise integration vendor MuleSoft (more on them here) is today announcing a massive funding round and also the launch of a new integration platform that it believes will solve the issues that organizations face in their attempt to integrate disparate services. The tl:dr version of the announcement is

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March 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Citrix CloudPortal – Enabling Services Providers to Build Out Broad Portfolios

By Ben Kepes

The ~aaS (as a service) acronym must be the most overdone three letters in technology – not satisfied with the main three divisions – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – there are a plethora of other acronyms as well XaaS, DBaaS, BaaS etc. Sometimes there is justification for coning another term

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March 7, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SalesFUSION Picks Up $1M–Incredible Renewal Rate Seals the Deal

By Ben Kepes

There are two metrics that are key to a SaaS business’ viability – conversion rates and churn. One focuses on the efficiency of the sales process, the other measures how happy customers are with the service being provided  When you have a startup that boasts of 100% year on year growth AND has

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March 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Financial Systems for the Mid Market – Intacct and Alternative Approaches to Consolidation

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written many times in the past about the relative dearth of vendors providing cloud accounting solutions to the mid-market – as NetSuite continues to move up the food chain and focuses on larger enterprises it only leaves players like FinancialForce and Intacct to focus on the mid-market One differentiating

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February 22, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

StitchLabs–Solving SMBs Inventory Woes

By Ben Kepes

Many readers know that outside of technology, I own a business that manufactures apparel and other products and sells them both online and through retail outlets. Having been involved in that business for 17 or so years, I’ve had first-hand experience of just how difficult it is to run a

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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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