Tag Archives: Software as a Service

May 16, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Enterprise Development and Testing Agility with CloudShare

By Ben Kepes

One of the big value propositions for cloud infrastructure is that in greatly reduces the hurdles that developers face when setting up environments for development and testing purposes. There are two issues that often get in the way of this process – the demand for limited physical resources, and the

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May 13, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

The Business Value of Private PaaS

By Ben Kepes

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of being involved with the second DeployCon event. DeployCon is an event that explores Platform as a Service and its place in the technology landscape going forwards. As part of the event I had the pleasure of moderating a panel which

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May 10, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Location Based Services Not Just for Consumers – Location as an IT Service Desk Enabler

By Ben Kepes

At Interop this week I sat in a keynote where a Cisco executive explained how their location based technologies are enabling the MGM Grand resort in Las Vegas to have deeply contextualized and personalized interactions with guests in the resort. That got me thinking about location within an enterprise and,

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April 18, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SMB Stock and Inventory from Quote Stock Sell

By Ben Kepes

Inventory is a critical part of any business that works in the real (ie physical) world. However given the seeming unquenchable excitement for the virtual world, inventory is sadly often dismissed down the priority list in favor of “sexier” functional areas. This oversight however proves an opportunity for people with

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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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April 1, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Being Part of an API-Based Ecosystem

By Ben Kepes

Much hand wringing and gnashing of teeth has occurred in the past around the Twitter ecosystem as slowly but surely Twitter identifies opportunities for development that sometimes encroach upon the functionality delivered by their ecosystem partners. Whether it’s buying a twitter service, which immediately skews the playing field for other

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April 1, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Speaking at DeployCon and CloudConnect

By Ben Kepes

This week sees me on a whirlwind visit to the Bay Area where I’ll be speaking at a few different events as follows: Tuesday – DeployCon I’m really looking forward to the second edition of DeployCon – in the morning I’ll be moderating a panel with two of my favorite

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March 27, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Citrix CloudPortal – Enabling Services Providers to Build Out Broad Portfolios

By Ben Kepes

The ~aaS (as a service) acronym must be the most overdone three letters in technology – not satisfied with the main three divisions – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – there are a plethora of other acronyms as well XaaS, DBaaS, BaaS etc. Sometimes there is justification for coning another term

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March 7, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SalesFUSION Picks Up $1M–Incredible Renewal Rate Seals the Deal

By Ben Kepes

There are two metrics that are key to a SaaS business’ viability – conversion rates and churn. One focuses on the efficiency of the sales process, the other measures how happy customers are with the service being provided  When you have a startup that boasts of 100% year on year growth AND has

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February 22, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

StitchLabs–Solving SMBs Inventory Woes

By Ben Kepes

Many readers know that outside of technology, I own a business that manufactures apparel and other products and sells them both online and through retail outlets. Having been involved in that business for 17 or so years, I’ve had first-hand experience of just how difficult it is to run a

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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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