Monthly Archives: November 2009

30/11/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

SaaS, Accounting, Microsoft Money and Hyperbole.

By Ben Kepes
Over on Accounting Web, a right royal stoush was started when Aqilla's Hugh Scantlebury wrote an op ed piece opining what the withdrawal of Microsoft’s Office Accounting product means and, more importantly, what is behind the move. For those who need the history, Microsoft discontinued its Office
27/11/2009 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

T-Shirt Friday #19 – Search Engine College

By Ben Kepes
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt o
27/11/2009 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Thanksgiving huh?

By Ben Kepes
So it’s Thanksgiving. And it makes perfect sense that the only regular CloudAve writer who ISN’T based in the US should get to have a holiday as well… even if he’s actually going to be at work today (Thanksgiving isn’t a New Zealand holiday although, as anyone who has visited here will att
25/11/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Mixing SaaS and OpenSource, A Case Study…

By Ben Kepes
One of my favorite posts was written over two years ago, back when I was still trying to tie down this SaaS thing. In my post I called for an approach by SaaS vendors to recreate parts of the OpenSource ethos in order to build their customer base and even their product. I said in my post; Imagine i
25/11/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Chris Liddell Leaving Microsoft

By Ben Kepes
Big news for the Kiwis out there – Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell is leaving the company at the end of the year. The Microsoft position was a bit of a coup for New Zealand, one of our own filling a high profile role for a (very) high profile company. Liddell himself seems upbeat, saying that; My tim
24/11/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Collaboration? I’ll have Two of Those – In Blue Please

By Ben Kepes
My good friend and buzzword slayer Mike Riversdale, is in the habit of slaying the dragons of enterprise newspeak. He regularly bemoans organizations whose collaboration strategy is articulated (somewhat facetiously) by the title above – you know, the organization who pay lip service to collaborat
23/11/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Another PR Rant, I Must be Tired

By Ben Kepes
I’ve posted many times before about traditional PR and how it falls dismally short. This post is an opportunity to celebrate some success stories and tell a few sorry tales. Before the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, and in an attempt to make my time as efficient as possible, I
23/11/2009 Posted in Business and the Environment, Economic Development, Efficiency, New Zealand 1 Comment

Commoditization… and the Tragedy of the Commons….

By Ben Kepes

My good friend Ruth has started blogging and, in what can only be likened to a “butterfly from the chrysalis” moment, we get to see the thoughts her previous employment have rendered her unlikely to utter. Her latest post looks broadly at the Emissions Trading Scheme and questions the strategy

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20/11/2009 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

T-Shirt Friday #18 – TelecomONE

By Ben Kepes
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt o
20/11/2009 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Apprenda’s In the Money – $5 Million in Funding

By Ben Kepes
I’ve written before about Apprenda, a company I’ve followed since I started blogging. Their company blog (sadly somewhat silent of late) was one of the early places for vendor thought-leadership around PaaS in particular. I was stoked to hear from CEO and co-founder Sinclair Schuller the other

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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