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April 18, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SMB Stock and Inventory from Quote Stock Sell

By Ben Kepes

Inventory is a critical part of any business that works in the real (ie physical) world. However given the seeming unquenchable excitement for the virtual world, inventory is sadly often dismissed down the priority list in favor of “sexier” functional areas. This oversight however proves an opportunity for people with

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March 11, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Scribe – Prettying up Life for the Data Integration Crowd

By Ben Kepes

Data integration – it’s the elephant in the room when it comes to the adoption of cloud solutions. While a plethora of best of breed solutions might provide the best functional fit in specific areas, that only works when the solutions themselves work together seamlessly – which is where the

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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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November 9, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Cloud app integration: Incredibly important, but also problematic

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from VentureBeat My background and entry into the technology industry came from my experience wrangling tech for a number of different small and mid-sized businesses. I’ve seen first hand just how much work is involved in tailoring discrete solutions into something that actually meets the specific needs of

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October 5, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Cloud Case Study–BlueWolf

By Ben Kepes

While at DreamForce recently I took the opportunity to sit down and talk with BlueWolf a business process and strategy consultancy that does a lot of work with mid sized and enterprise customers helping them move their IT to a more agile way of doing things. BlueWolf has some 3000

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September 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Levion and the Promise of Hybrid Accounting Software

By Ben Kepes

As the accounting software industry moves to a general acceptance of the fact that customers demand the sort of benefits that cloud application bring, there are two distinct approaches vnedors are making; Pure-play cloud vendors (FreeAgent, Xero etc) build pure Saas applications and do away with any need for desktop

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August 30, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Back to the Future–FreshBooks is Accounting

By Ben Kepes

Disclosure – the accounting space is an area I follow closely and one in which I have spent time consulting with a host of different vendors. Full details on my disclosure page but suffice it to say I have consulted to a number of companies covered in this post –

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July 15, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Rumors Suggest Xero to Announce Acquisitions at Xerocon

By Ben Kepes

Update 2 – Well, it seems I was right – as I predicted Xero did not acquire Vend and did acquire a practice management vendors (Spotlight Workpapers whom I referred to in a previous post). This gives Xero a more credible practice management suite and should stand them in good

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June 14, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Intuit Drops the Partner Platform–Retreats from a Federated Ecosystem Approach

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written at length about the Intuit Partner Platform – it seemed to me the best approach by a traditional accounting vendor to provide a compelling offering in an increasingly SaaS-based world. the IPP allowed third organizations to use third party SaaS applications alongside their core QuickBooks data, all the

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April 23, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Xero Nabs Intuit Exec

By Ben Kepes

I’ve long wondered how Xero will execute upon its North American opportunity – after all North America is the real goal for the company, and also where they face the biggest hurdles to success. I’ve even been roundly criticized for articulating this question I’ve spent some time with Xero’s US

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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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