Monthly Archives: July 2008

27/07/2008 Posted in Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS 4 Comments

Training 2.0

By Ben Kepes

It seems like everything gets the 2.0 moniker these days. From accounting 2.0 to Web 2.0 to office productivity 2.0, it’s a veritable second coming. Another 2.0 title joins the fray in the form of training 2.0. Litmos in an on-demand training delivery offering that aims to make it easy

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26/07/2008 Posted in Blogging 4 Comments

Ben grovels…

By Ben Kepes

Hello everyone. 48 hours ago I installed a new comment moderation plugin that promised to provide better community rating and ranking. Unfortunately what it did provide was a mail bomb to recent commenters. I feel really bad about it – I’d like to thing that Diversity is anything BUT spammy

26/07/2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New business, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

PaaS (Postage as a Service)

By Ben Kepes

It’s not April the first is it? Simon G alerted me to the existence of PostalMethods, a service that…. "automates the sending of postal mail from their business processes". First comment – crawl out from the business speak guys – business processes is a moniker for a way things are

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26/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

On Telcos and content

By Ben Kepes

.Lance posted about the fact that the iPhone is having difficulty coping with telco giant mobile content offerings over in Australia. Lance puts it better than I could when he says that; The news is that these services are not really wanted – and have only been used to date

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26/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 4 Comments

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, what were you thinking?

By Ben Kepes

I like Sarah Lacy, I kind of felt for her when she was torn apart for her interview of Facebook founder mark Zuckerberg last year. True she came across that time as something of a sycophant – but she didn’t deserve the evisceration that she got. But then in my

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25/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, Strategy 7 Comments

Some new services for the general public (who will never see this post ‘cos they don’t read blogs)

By Ben Kepes

This is one of those posts that many will respond to saying "oh but Google/Yahoo/Facebook/Symantec/AVG/Lavasoft has been doing that forever and for free – what’s so new about that?" Which is sort of a valid point and sort of not. I live in two worlds – I’m an early adopter

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25/07/2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

Hardware company gets SaaSy? Morphing business models

By Ben Kepes

Interesting news that Microsoft president of its Platform and Services division Kevin Johnson is leaving the company. Apparently he’s heading over to become CEO of Juniper Networks, the manufacturer of networking hardware. As Om reports, this hire, and some other recent ones, point to a shift in strategy for Juniper.

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25/07/2008 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 7 Comments

If only banks "got it"

By Ben Kepes

I got an email from Xero today advising that Westpac customers can now have their bank feeds automatically brought into their Xero accounting software (this has been available from the other banks for some time now). Eagle eyed readers will remember that Westpac is the bank behind the destined-to-failure community

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24/07/2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Thumbs up to the Xero API!

By Julian Stone

Our development team have been working on an integration module between our ProWorkflow application  and Xero. ProWorkflow is web based project management software and XERO is web based accounting software. Both operate under a SaaS (Software As A Service) model. The aim is to transfer invoices from ProWorkflow to XERO

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24/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Governance, IT, Strategy 2 Comments

Corporate reinvention

By Ben Kepes

Mauricio posted about Foldera’s metamorphosis from a developer of web-based collaboration tools into one that creates "high speed, high density carrier grade Ethernet switches" (whatever those are!) Hmmmm – well I see the crossover there – one is physical, one virtual. One hardware, one software – come to think of

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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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