Tag Archives: SuccessFactors

August 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Allena Aims to Deliver Plain English BI Insights for Salesforce Users

By Ben Kepes

Recently I received an email from Saqib Waqar, CEO of Allena, an interesting new vendor in the “plain English BI” space. Waqar comes from an ERP background having created custom ERP solutions for several customers. Waqar made contact after seeing content I’d written about two other BI players, YouCalc (eventually

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July 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

By Ben Kepes

Last week say NetSuite report it’s Q2 revenue and earnings – hi level numbers include; Subscription and support revenue was $61.0 million, a 27 percent increase on an annual basis Cash flows from operations were $15.2 million, up by 80 percent from Q2 2011 While the specific numbers themselves are

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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 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Opportunities and Challenges for IT Managers

By Ben Kepes

Recently I was invited by IBM to host a lunch in Auckland that bought together a handful of IT managers from a range of organizations. the aim of the lunch was to have a discussion, in a neutral forum, about the opportunities and challenges that cloud brings to their organizations.

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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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March 15, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Broadens Both Down and Outwards with Rypple and Site.com

By Ben Kepes

I’m not in San Francisco for Salesforce’s CloudForce event, I decided to come directly home after SXSW instead. Rather I’m watching the live stream on Facebook – while the beer and party may only be virtual, the stream fidelity is pretty good otherwise. Anyway – two big announcements today, the

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October 28, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Flawed Analysis–On Clouds “Playing Nice”

By Ben Kepes

The other day someone alerted me to a new report put out by IT news that lauds itself as a “technical study of the integration and extension options offered by the largest 20 software-as-a-service vendors serving the Australian enterprise.” The report looks at a few different dimensions including; Can I

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October 18, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SuccessFactors Partners with CloudFoundry to Deliver PaaS

By Ben Kepes

Interesting news that SuccessFactors has selected VMware’s PaaS, CloudFoundry as its platform to allow creation and extension of customer applications around its core data. This is an interesting move particularly given that it follows the move of Workday, Infor and Concur to use the force.com PaaS as the platform of

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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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