Monthly Archives: June 2008

26/06/2008 Posted in Design, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

The battle royal will be mobile.

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest  post from the Unreasonablemen.net The announcement yesterday about Nokia’s acquisition of the rest of Symbian clearly draws the battle lines for a new age of competition. To me this strengthens my view about Google’s Android play. For those who suffer from Nick Carr’s internet driven attention disorder, I

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26/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Society, Strategy, Web x.0 2 Comments

On support for free apps and independence or otherwise…

By Ben Kepes

I posted last week about Etelos, the company creating a viable business by doing much of the heavy lifting for web-apps – they host, install, package and support the apps, leaving the users to concentrate on what is core. My post generated a few comments one of which questioned the

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26/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Strategy 1 Comment

A neutral perspective on broadband in NZ

By Ben Kepes

At the recent telcon9 conference in Auckland, Michael Cranna, managing director of Epitiro Technologies had some interesting things to say about our broadband. Epitiro is a global provider of broadband benchmarking data and hence is apparently as neutral as they come. While Cranna admitted that we’re a work in progress,

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25/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Gmail moves into the big time…

By Ben Kepes

Much discussion has centred around on-demand apps being primarily for smaller businesses. Many enterprise folks like to remind that Microsoft is still premier in their organisation. Interesting to read about the largest implementation of Gmail in the world. Google has secured the deal to provide for 1.5 million students at

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25/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

Another telco creates a SaaS aggregation platform

By Ben Kepes

Awesome to see that, fresh after the British Telecom move into creating a SaaS aggregation platform, Telstra has done similarly for Australia. The idea is that the platform will include applications from the major international players as well as offerings from smaller local companies. Telstra is targeting SMEs with the

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24/06/2008 Posted in PaaS, SaaS Leave a comment

Salesforce and Google integrate some more

By Daniel Fowlie

Since the beginning of the year Salesforce’s Tour de Force event has been touring the world. The Tour de Force events are all about the Force.com platform as a service, leaving Salesforce’s CRM offering for discussion at the Dreamforce conference. Today’s stop on the tour was the home town stop

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24/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, Web x.0 4 Comments

FriendsReunited – a little too late

By Ben Kepes

News this morning that FriendsReunited, formerly the FindaKiwi locale, has re-branded, dropped subscription fees and put in place a whole heap of social media functionality. Reading between the lines I take it that there were nowhere near enough subscriptions to make the site viable (paying to join a generic social

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24/06/2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS Leave a comment

Win a trip to Macau…

By Ben Kepes

Cool deal for those SaaS bunnies with video skills – there is a competition running currently to product the best video explaining  Microsoft’s Software + Services strategy. The competition is being run for the Asia Pacific region and closes on the 31st of July. Full detail here. Hey – maybe

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24/06/2008 Posted in Blogging, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, New business, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Society, Strategy 4 Comments

Ruby a pretty good first foray

By Ben Kepes

(and I’m not talking about Ruby on Rails) I’m currently in the throes of doing some work around creating a business community (more to come on that one) and in my research I came across The Ruby Connection, the network set up by Westpac Bank in order to create a

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24/06/2008 Posted in Business, IT, New business, SaaS 4 Comments

SaaS help desk solution…

By Ben Kepes

I came across Danish product Zendesk the other day. Zendesk is a SaaS delivered helpdesk solution that simply and effectively provides a helpdesk Fully customisable tickets RSS feeds for tickets and views Tagging of all helpdesk attributes Self-service portal for help desk users Tickets are email integrated Resolved tickets can

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The Author

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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