Monthly Archives: August 2007

31/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

SaaS/s and SaaS/v post…

By Ben Kepes

Over here at SaaS blogs, Sinclair has posted about what he refers to as SaaS with ROF (Regular Old Functionality) as opposed to SaaS with ROF + Value. This is a very similar theme to my previous post about the two SaaS models – SaaS/s and SaaS/v. However while Sinclair

30/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, Manufacturing, Strategy 3 Comments

Nokia and public relations….

By Ben Kepes

This is a post that I hope will find its way into Nokia NZ or Nokia international’s public relations department. A month or so ago I acquired a new Nokia 6630 phone. Pretty much straight away it was obvious that the phone was buggy and needed repairs. I took it

30/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Crossing the chasm with SaaS…

By Ben Kepes

Smoothspan has this excellent post talking about SaaS as the enabler to cross the chasm between early adopters and everyone else. Excellent points are made in the post but more emphasis needs to be placed on the one imperative issue – SERVICE. Through user-centric design and taking a non-geek look

30/08/2007 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Telecom – coming at ya…

By Ben Kepes

With a hat tip to David MacGregor I thought Id post this image he has over on his site – I think it’s classic (and oh so true);

30/08/2007 Posted in Business, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

A good Office x.0 offering….

By Ben Kepes

I use MS office, Open Office (under duress) and Google Apps. That’s simply not enough office app choice for a budding geek so I’m now using Zoho as well. Initial observations – nice, really nice. Much better functionality in both writing and spreadsheeting than Google apps, great importing (although it

30/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT, Uncategorized, Web x.0 3 Comments

Google are evil….. but not THAT evil…

By Ben Kepes

Some super-sleuthing resulted in this post which identified that the Google Aps terms of service says; “… you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, modify, publish and distribute such Content on Google services for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services…” Now the conspricists

29/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy 6 Comments

Words from the lovefest – MoneyWorks vs MYOB vs Xero

By Ben Kepes

So….. reporting from the Small Business Expo – I’ve been undercover today – doing the rounds of the accounting software businesses talking them about what they do and pretending to know nothing. Both MoneyWorks and MYOB are on the defensive, running down Xero‘s strategy, product offering and viability. The man

29/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 3 Comments

More on existing ISV’s morphing to SaaS

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written in the past of the viability or otherwise of Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) changing their business model to embrace SaaS delivery. We see a lot of it around, Microsoft embracing SaaS (albeit by a different name), SAP going down the SaaS route etc. I’ve always been pretty sceptical

29/08/2007 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand Leave a comment

Xtra putting its money where its mouth is…

By Ben Kepes

$7million – that’s how much Xtra will spend in an effort to appease the customers left high and dry in the recent burst bubble fiasco. Nice of them to try but I can’t help but think that it might be a little too late – this incident might be the

29/08/2007 Posted in IT, Web x.0 3 Comments

Web 2.0 a discussion….

By Ben Kepes

As posted previously – I prefer to talk about Web x.0 rather than web 2.0. In my opinion giving the title 2.0 to anything only increases discussion about timescales to 3.0, 4.0 etc etc. Seth from Interclue gave a talk last night (I wasn’t there but he blogged about it

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance 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. More on Ben

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