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February 4, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

By Ben Kepes

Recently, I moderated a CloudU roundtable that continued an ongoing theme of mine –overcoming the hurdles to greater cloud adoption. In this case we looked deeply at the cloud cost area. This is a really important problem space to resolve. You see, depending on your perspective, the fact that cloud

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October 19, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Barriers To Entry – Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

By Ben Kepes

A theme I’ve been exploring over the past year or so has been the barriers to cloud adoption. Time spent with organizations using cloud has shown me just how valuable a move to the cloud can be – in terms of economics, agility, focus, etc. That being the case, you’d

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October 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Netsuite Introduces Billing and Subscription Service

By Ben Kepes

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference held earlier this year, CEO Zach Nelson announced that the company would begin to provide some billing and subscription functionality into their platform. Billing in the services based world is an immense nightmare, others have delved into intricate detail of the reasons why this is

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September 11, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions

By Ben Kepes

Nicely timed to coincide with next week’s DreamForce conference comes the summer 2012 release from FinancialForce, the cloud accounting company that is both part owned by Salesforce, and built upon the force.com platform. While product announcements tend to be a little ho-hum, this one is interesting since it comes from

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May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Zuora Partners With a Host of Mid Market Financial Vendors

By Ben Kepes

In my extensive writing around the subscription billing space, I have often noted that it is a very polarized sector of our industry with a handful of well funded companies providing services for large organizations – Zuora, Vindicia and Aria fit in this space. These companies are maneuvering for position

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May 7, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zuora and Citrix Announce Partnership

By Ben Kepes

  News today of yet another partnership for SaaS subscription and billing provider Zuora – this time they’re signing up Citrix as a customer with Zuora powering the subscription and billing parts of Citrix’ CloudPortal Services Manager. The deal is essentially a simple one, Citrix wants to provide cloud tools

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March 22, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Reflecting on RLM – Transverse Billing and Subscription Vendor

By Ben Kepes

When in Austin recently I took the opportunity to meet with Transverse, another player in a space I call Revenue Lifecycle Management of RLM. Revenue Lifecycle Management includes the obvious functional area such as subscription and billing services, but extends these into a realm that deals with the entire lifecycle

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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OneBill Launches (Another) Subscription Commerce Platform

By Ben Kepes

Just when the world thought it was well provided for subscription commerce toolsets, OneBill is today launching its own take on this product area. Subscription billing is a massive area of opportunity as organizations look to gain increased flexibility and agility when it comes to selling their products in new

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July 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Aria Scoops a Tier1 Telco Customer

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a couple of years closely following the subscription and billing space – particularly the SaaS startups that are hoping to be the face of the next generation of technology. Historically of course, billing has been dominated by two particular approaches. The first is home baked solutions that large

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July 5, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Another Subscription and Billing Provider–Spinning the Wheels with Metanga

By Ben Kepes

I seem to have created a bit of a niche for myself commenting on the cloud subscription and billing space. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years speaking with players Aria, Monexa, Vindicia and Zuora (disclosure – I have done consulting work for all four 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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