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April 30, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

By Ben Kepes

I’m a strong believer in the notion of social streaming tools for enterprise – I’ve seen how tools like Yammer can really drive productivity within small businesses. The problems come when these sorts of tools are rolled out into larger organizations where one of two things happen: No one uses

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March 29, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Information Silos and Fracturing the Enterprise Brain

By Ben Kepes

Those of us who advocate for a move to the cloud often talk of cloud applications ending enterprise silos – the malaise where different data is stored in lots of different applications and where different departments don’t use any pan-organizational system to communicate and collaborate. The theory goes that by

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January 17, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Bridging the Chasm Between IT and the Business

By Ben Kepes

People go to great lengths to explain how cloud computing is democratizing IT and enabling the end-users of technology to make some decisions themselves about what they use, how they use it and how quickly they can get set up. A plethora of enterprise vendors have got their start in

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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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January 16, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

IBM Goes Deep with Cloud and Social

By Ben Kepes

At Lotusphere IBM is today announcing a host of new offerings aimed at seeing it gain some relevance in the social enterprise space. There are a heap of announcements but the highlights include; New social analytics software that integrates wikis, blogs, activity streams, email, calendaring, and flags relevant data for

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May 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Toyota Chatter–to Salesforce it Matters

By Ben Kepes

News off the wire today that Salesforce.com and Toyota have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Toyota create a private social network for car owners built on top of Chatter. First some detail of the deal, according to the release; Toyota Friend will be a private social network that

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May 13, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

SuiteWorld Reflections

By Ben Kepes

I spent this last week at SuiteWorld, NetSuite’s first ever global user conference, a melting pot of accents, customer stories and NetSuite partners shopping their wares. I’ve got a few posts to write about different things I saw and heard – I’ll ruminate over them in the coming weeks. First

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September 20, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, The Cloud, Web x.0 2 Comments

Joining the microblogging legions….

By Ben Kepes

Legions of different applications that is… At the recent Techcrunch50, Twitter-for-enterprise startup Yammer took out the top prize. I was interested to read a post by Bernard a couple of days later where he uncharacteristically lashed the decision. Basically Bernard calls Yammer a "me too" offering that offers little that

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