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May 20, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part Two

By Ben Kepes

Part two of my post-SuiteWorld reflections I attended NetSuite‘s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to attend) and it has been interesting to reflect on a company that is unabashedly growing up. Having been at all of the previous global NetSuite events, it was impressive

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May 17, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SuiteWorld Wrap-up – Part One

By Ben Kepes

My post-event thoughts from SuiteWorld are just too weighty for one post hence I’ll break up my analysis into two posts and give folks a chance to digest them over time. Here follows part one. I attended NetSuite’s global conference this year (disclosure – NetSuite contributed to my T&E to

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May 8, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Looking Forward to GoogleIO and SuiteWorld

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me continue my US sojourn with stops at NetSuite‘s annual event SuiteWorld and the much-heralded Google developer event, GoogleIO. I’m going to write a compendium post about what I expect to see at these two very different events. Quick disclosure first – as is customary, Google and

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April 8, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite Smacks SAP and Microsoft–Remains Surprisingly (Or Not) Silent on Oracle

By Ben Kepes

Recently NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson made a number of comments about NetSuite competitors. The comments, part of the company’s Q4 earnings call, were aimed at convincing the marketplace that both SAP and Microsoft have stumbled in their attempts to move to the cloud. In an interview that reflected on the

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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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January 22, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SAP Business Suite on HANA, Because Big Data is a Stupid Term

By Ben Kepes

I spent a lot of time last year talking with vendors about big data and it’s ramifications for both the tech industry and the economy at large. Often these conversations centered around one or another vendor’s use of the big data term as the buzzword de jour, regardless of whether

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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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