Tag Archives: Social enterprise

August 28, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always struck me that there is a lot of value left on

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June 25, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis

By Ben Kepes

So Microsoft has confirmed the rumored acquisition of Yammer for $1.2B. Here’s my thoughts; Potentially this is a great opportunity for MSFT to create a fabric that spans their different enterprise products (Dynamics, Office, SharePoint) that’s a big big opportunity but I believe technology and platform hurdles will push that

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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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June 6, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Socialcast Goes Free to Increase Adoption

By Ben Kepes

There are a number of vendors trying to determine the best way to increase adoption for enterprise social tools – but no one has yet found a more compelling proposition than giving a product away for free. It’s a sad reality that, despite the continual evangelism by proponents of the

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April 11, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On the Modern (Social) Enterprise with John Wookey

By Ben Kepes

Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time talking with John Wookey, one of the most seasoned software industry execs that folks outside of enterprise land will never have heard of. Wookey has an impressive history – formerly at Oracle, then poached by SAP to run their on-demand efforts

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November 16, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Social Revolution

By Ben Kepes

I generally don’t go in for the hand waving around social for business. While I’m a proponent of social, I like to see proof before I announce the revolution. There’s nothing I hate more than the social media gurus who seem to want to pigeon-hole organizations into standards tools and

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September 6, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

DreamForce 2011–A Look Back

By Ben Kepes

Having just returned from my trip to the US for DreamForce, I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on the news (see here and here) from the event. I wanted to write up  post that takes a more thoughtful look at what was, and was not, announced, and what

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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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