Tag Archives: SAP

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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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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June 7, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

SAP, SuccessFactors, Ariba and the Brave new World of Mobile, Social and Cloud

By Ben Kepes

Recently I spent a day in Sydney attending an Analyst day that was held alongside Successfactor’s SuccessConnect user conference [disclosure – Successfactors covered my travel and accommodation to attend the briefing]. Other than a few email and twitter conversations, it was the first deep conversation I’d had with folks from

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May 8, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

SuiteWorld-Looking Back, Looking Forwards

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me winging my way, albeit briefly, to San Francisco to take part in the annual NetSuite user conference, SuiteWorld. It will be the third time I’ve been to the event, and it’s always a great chance to catch up with colleagues, talk with NetSuite customers and partners,

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March 19, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

NetSuite and Oracle–Competition or Acquisition?

By Ben Kepes

It’s plainly clear that traditional software vendors can no long rubbish this new breed of Cloud vendors. While once Oracle, Microsoft and SAP could pour scorn at the little pests sniping at their ankles – today we have some impressive vendors waiting in the wings who look increasingly likely to

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January 10, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Cloudwashing from SAP. Sigh

By Ben Kepes

“With SAP Business ByDesign, SAP was (and still is) the first company to release an ERP suite that users access and work with through the Internet.” Stuff like this frankly really peeves me. How long ago was it that the traditional vendors were decrying cloud as insecure, a waste of

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December 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating. In the report we advised organizations to look at applications that; • Have significant interaction with external applications or services • Are

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October 21, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Raises $81M and Raises the Stakes at the Same Time

By Ben Kepes

Big news last week was the confirmation of a massive new funding round for perennial crowd favorite box.net. For those that didn’t see the news, Box snagged $81M from existing and new investors including salesforce and SAP ventures. While others carried news of the funding, I wanted to spend some

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September 21, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimsoft Monitors SAP Environments

By Ben Kepes

Nimsoft, the company that provides IT management as a service (more on them here) today rolled out monitoring for a range of SAP products and services. The aim here is for Nimsoft Monitor to become the default monitoring service across all the products and services an enterprise uses – the

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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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