Tag Archives: Salesforce.com

May 2, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Launches Communities – Tying the Back Office to the Customer View

By Ben Kepes

As the pace of business increases, and consumers of products or services demand that their provider is more responsive to their particular requirements, there is an ever growing need for customer facing solutions which are integrated with the back office solutions that organizations use to run their sales, marketing and

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April 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

WorkinBox Integrates Email and CRM – Beautifully

By Ben Kepes

I’ve known Ryan Nichols, the CEO and co-founder of Tylr Mobile, for a number of years now – he has an impressive record of picking great problem areas and executing upon them in short order – I first came across him at Appirio and we later talked when he took

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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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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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February 26, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

By Ben Kepes

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent release of Cloud Foundry, and the significant uptake it has had

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February 25, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chartio Supporting Salesforce–Pretty for the Enterprise

By Ben Kepes

Two themes I often talk about are specific functionality from specialist vendors and delivering enterprise solutions in new and friendly ways. A good example of this I came across recently was from small company Chartio. Chartio, a Y Combinator company, touts itself as the best interface for data. Essentially it

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January 17, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

By Ben Kepes

People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set up. A plethora of enterprise vendors have got their start in

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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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January 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

By Ben Kepes

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and Heroku was creating a real gravity pull for developers and that

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December 27, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Guest Post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS – Part III – Business Services

By Ben Kepes

Every now and then I am asked by someone to guest post on my blog – recently Quinton Wall from salesforce.com approached me to do a series on PaaS. I took a look at what he was proposing and accepted his offer since I see a lot of value in

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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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