Tag Archives: Salesforce.com

December 20, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Cloud Sherpas–$40M in Funding and Another Aquisition

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been following Google Apps and Salesforce reseller Cloud Sherpas since it launched a few years ago – in that time I’ve seen them acquire companies globally and grow into a real force in the space. I’m always a little dubious about how much long term viability there is in

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December 18, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Guest post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS. Part II – Developer & Platform 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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December 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Acquires Prior Knowledge

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago salesforce announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company Prior Knowledge. The announcement came on the day before Thanksgiving and hence was little reported – interestingly the Prior Knowledge team moves quickly to shut down the API for their public product, Veritable, as well as

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December 12, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Guest Post – Beyond the Buzzword: 8 Key Capabilities to PaaS – Part I – Infrastructure & Operational 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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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 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 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 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 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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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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