Tag Archives: SaaS

March 30, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Clarifying the Acronyms – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS

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 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Flawed Analysis–On Clouds “Playing Nice”

By Ben Kepes

The other day someone alerted me to a new report put out by IT news that lauds itself as a “technical study of the integration and extension options offered by the largest 20 software-as-a-service vendors serving the Australian enterprise.” The report looks at a few different dimensions including; Can I

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October 26, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written

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June 30, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

By Ben Kepes

One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the judges in the Structure Launchpad gave Cloudability – and we both

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July 26, 2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Software Delivery Approaches – Debunking the Myths

By Ben Kepes

Recently I’ve been presenting a number of “SaaS 101” events and have been reminded of how many people lump SaaS and ASP into the same box. It seemed well overdue for a report to be created that compared and contrasted on premise, hosted/ASP and SaaS and gave buyers some guidance

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July 1, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Intalio Introduces Something New – Cloud Computing

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time recently talking with Ismael Ghalimi – CEO of Intalio. Intalio has been around for a number of years but has been something of a quiet performer – Ghalimi wishes to change this with the new Intalio product range. From their website, Intalio is a company that:

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October 12, 2009 Posted in Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud 5 Comments

Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

By Ben Kepes

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all

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September 29, 2009 Posted in Business, Product reviews, SaaS 2 Comments

Dremus Goes 2.0

By Ben Kepes

I got an email the other day telling me that Dremus has just released it’s 2.0 offering (review of the 1.0 offering here). The new version takes the existing functionality and adds to it the following; – More free Themes – More options for accepting payments (gateways) – Introduction of

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August 6, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

Trineo – Heading for the Big Time

By Ben Kepes


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September 9, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 8 Comments

“SaaS market will ‘collapse’ in two years” – I don’t think so!

By Julian Stone

Why is it that doomsayers popup every now and then with a completely negative message and somehow manage to get major press. Harry Debes, CEO of Law Software has publicly declared that the sky will fall on SaaS (Software as a Service) companies in 2 years. Personally I think it

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