Tag Archives: San Francisco

April 10, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Dropbox Pushes Into the Enterprise – SSO Coming

By Ben Kepes

When I was in San Francisco last week I took the opportunity to swing by the Dropbox office and meet the team responsible for giving Dropbox enterprise credibility. They actually have a pretty interesting job, despite Dropbox being extremely pervasive, both with the consumer space and enterprise, there is a

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January 24, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Airline Customer Service 2.0

By Ben Kepes

I’m writing this email 30000 feet or so above the Pacific Ocean upon an Air New Zealand flight to San Francisco. I’m also somewhat agitated because I inadvertently left my wallet (and all of my credit cards and other essentials) at home in my office. As I fly along in

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September 12, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Dataloader.io Provides Easy Salesforce Migration

By Ben Kepes

One of the great untold barriers to actually moving to the cloud is the not insignificant pain that organizations feel when migrating their data from an existing system of record to a cloud solution. This is especially the case when the solution is both an integral part of the organization’s

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September 12, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zendesk Scores New Funding Round and Updated Interface

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been writing about helpdesk provider Zendesk now for going on five years. Their original employee, and now APAC head, Michael Hansen, likes to tell the story about their first blog coverage (a piece I wrote for ReadWriteWeb) corresponding with the beginning of their hockey-stick growth. I don’t know about

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September 10, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

DreamForce Briefings–Inviting the Deluge

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me winging my way to San Francisco for salesforce’s annual extravaganza, DreamForce. I’m condensing my trip this year and have very, very limited time to talk to folks – but am always keen to meet people doing cool stuff in the salesforce ecosystem. At this stage I

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August 14, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudBeat 2012–Just Around the Corner

By Ben Kepes

November sees me winging my way to the US not once, but twice. The end of the month sees me once gain team up with friend and colleague Paul Miller to help VentureBeat with the content for their CloudBeat event. Last year was the inaugural event and I think (biased

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June 12, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Social – An Enterprise Overlay, or an Enterprise Fabric?

By Ben Kepes

On a recent trip to San Francisco I spent talking with both salesforce and NetSuite people about their approach and general view of “social” as it relates to enterprise software [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend and salesforce has funded my travel to DreamForce previously]. I call

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May 21, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chatter Messenger – Real-Time Synchronicity

By Ben Kepes

Note – this post was embargoed until tomorrow morning but alas (and again) that embargo was broken by others. Since it was, I’m releasing the post early… but not happily. About the time you read this, salesforce CEO Marc Benioff [note – it will not be Benioff on stage but rather

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April 26, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

NetSuite Earnings Call Summary

By Ben Kepes

High level; Record Q1 Revenue of $69.3 Million, a 30% Year-over-Year Increase Recurring Revenue Grows 27% Year-over-Year to $58.0 Million Non-GAAP Net Income Grows 116% Year-over-Year Operating Cash Flow Grows 58% Year-over-Year to $10.6 Million Interestingly NetSuite made a Q1 loss of $7.7M, the exact same loss as in Q1

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October 4, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Larry, and Marc, and All Publicity being Good Publicity

By Ben Kepes

So I’ve been mentioning it on Twitter all afternoon, after being one of the first to pick up on the announcement from Marc Benioff that Oracle had reneged on its offer for a keynote position at Oracle’s OpenWorld event in San Francisco this week. Ever the showman, Benioff turned it

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