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April 9, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Salesforce Goes All In on Mobile App Development

By Ben Kepes

Over the past twelve months or so, Salesforce has extended its existing story around the social enterprise to strongly articulate its opinion that the future of the enterprise lies in a mobile-enabled workforce. The company is today announcing the next step in that progression with the announcement of a new

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January 16, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acquisition News – Cloud Sherpas Broadens the Franchise and Moves Into ITSM

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been covering Cloud Sherpas since its inception – I’m particularly interested in this new breed of services brokerage that is proving successful despite deriving its revenue from a small sliver of a very small annual charge – this in comparison to the traditional on-premise world where companies enjoyed massive

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December 6, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

What Will Identity Look Like in the Future?

By Ben Kepes

At the defrag conference recently, I took part in a few sessions that looks at the broader role of identity in a world were more and more people use cloud-based tools. One of the sessions was led by Pat Patterson, Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce. In his session, Patterson drew

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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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November 5, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Workday Launches Version 18 – Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

At the Workday Rising event being held in Las Vegas this week, Workday announced the latest version of its product, on top of which they held an analyst/influcner day that I was following remotely. I’ve got a few thoughts about the analyst day but first a recap of the news.

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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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October 4, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

If Developers are the new Kingmakers–Salesforce is Starting to Own the Castle

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been attending Salesforce’s user conference now for a few years and one thing that’s always been a little awkward is the fact that Salesforce has always tried to make the event meaningful for developers but has generally created a kind of Frankenstein beast where suited business types get highbrow

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October 1, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

MindTouch Delivers Knowledge Base for Salesforce Customers

By Ben Kepes

MindTouch is one of the early leaders in the Enterprise 2.0 space –their CEO, Aaron Fulkerson was a regular attendee on the conference circuit. Over the last couple of years however, MindTouch has gone pretty silent as  market conditions and heightened competition caused them to disappear from view. I bumped

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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 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown

By Ben Kepes

At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff leaked his own company’s news of a new content collaboration and sharing service dubbed ChatterBox. I’ve actually known about the product for a month or so, my sources who told me of its initial existence said that it was a direct

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