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January 14, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Because Old School Retail is Dead–NetSuite Acquires Retail Anywhere

By Ben Kepes

Short version NetSuite’s acquisition of Point of Sale (POS) vendor Retail Anywhere creates a powerful offering that allows retail businesses to compete in the face of a challenging environment. Long version NetSuite recently acquired Retail Anywhere, a provider of multi-channel retail management solutions designed to improve the retail customer experience.

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November 26, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Reflections on BoxWorks

By Ben Kepes

Having had a little while to reflect on a month that saw me attend both DreamForce and BoxWorks, I wanted to get down some thoughts on what is happening with Box, one of Silicon Valley’s current darlings. This is all the more relevant given the slightly uncomfortable position that Box

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October 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

OneLogin Launches Cross-Application Search

By Ben Kepes

The announcement by Salesforce a few weeks ago that it was moving into the enterprise Single Sign on (SSO) space was both an excellent validation that sso across cloud and on-premise applications is needed, but also a rude awakening to the existing independent SSO vendors like OneLogin and Okta. While

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October 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Netsuite Introduces Billing and Subscription Service

By Ben Kepes

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference held earlier this year, CEO Zach Nelson announced that the company would begin to provide some billing and subscription functionality into their platform. Billing in the services based world is an immense nightmare, others have delved into intricate detail of the reasons why this is

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October 12, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

TradeGecko–Cloud-Based SMB Inventory Launches

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent  couple of decades dealing with the realities of a small business that sells physical goods. The functional requirements of these businesses are surprisingly broad but alas the budget tends to be small. I was interested then to hear from the founders of TradeGecko, a recently launched SaaS inventory

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October 9, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Box Counters the Threat of ChatterBox–The Switzerland of Content Collaboration

By Ben Kepes

When Salesforce announced their ChatterBox content collaboration solutions a couple of weeks ago, the one vendor most impacted by the news was Box – partly because they’d previously been an important partner of Salesforce, but also because the announcement cut off some of Box’s oxygen, especially inside companies who are

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September 19, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Salesforce Becomes the First Next Generation Enterprise Platform

By Ben Kepes

A quick roundup of DreamForce news for today – with the disclosure that Salesforce is covering my T&E to be able to be here at the event. Strong words but, as I predicted, the announcements at this years DreamForce point to Salesforce firmly creating for itself the position of first

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September 11, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions

By Ben Kepes

Nicely timed to coincide with next week’s DreamForce conference comes the summer 2012 release from FinancialForce, the cloud accounting company that is both part owned by Salesforce, and built upon the force.com platform. While product announcements tend to be a little ho-hum, this one is interesting since it comes from

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August 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

By Ben Kepes

So Alex Williams (a great guy, good friend and awesome cloud pundit) wrote a post a week or two ago entitled “Why The Open Cloud Wins And Oracle Loses When IT Gets Virtualized.” (subtle huh?) Oracle wasn’t overly happy at Alex’s comments and counter posted saying that “TechCrunch is Clueless

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July 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

By Ben Kepes

Last week say NetSuite report it’s Q2 revenue and earnings – hi level numbers include; Subscription and support revenue was $61.0 million, a 27 percent increase on an annual basis Cash flows from operations were $15.2 million, up by 80 percent from Q2 2011 While the specific numbers themselves are

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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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