Monthly Archives: February 2010

27/02/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

The Impact Of CA’s Acquisition Of 3Tera

By Krishnan Subramanian
Image via Wikipedia Yesterday CA Inc., the enterprise IT company formerly known as Computer Associates, announced its intent to acquire the cloud computing provider 3Tera. Even though the details of the deal are not available, there are some unconfirmed reports going around the blogosphere an
26/02/2010 Posted in Just for fun Leave a comment

T Shirt Friday #32 – defrag

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
26/02/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Cloud Connect – Discount Registration

By Ben Kepes
I’ll be attending Cloud Connect next month as will Krish – we’re looking forward to being part of the mass cloud pundits gathering – already the agenda looks awesome. The organizers have offered us the opportunity to give readers a 30% discount off the registration price. Just use code CNJRC
25/02/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

BeeBole and Charts – The Joy of APIs

By Ben Kepes
In advance of the Google I/O conference in May (which I’m stoked that I’ll be attending and covering live), Yves Hiernaux, CEO of BeeBole flicked me an email telling me that they’re hoping to be invited to the developer sandbox at the event. In order to showcase their own take on where theyâ
25/02/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Apigee Gains Traction And Adds New Security Features

By Krishnan Subramanian
Image via CrunchBase We live in an era where we consume computing through API and socialize through mashups. Our wide ranging computing needs from mobile apps to social networks to SaaS, brings API to the forefront of our computing senses. To cater to the needs of this API generation, Santa C
24/02/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Admit Your Frailty and People Will Respect You

By Ben Kepes
So Zendesk (more on them here) had a bad day. Their Worst Day Ever. CEO Mikkel Svane’s face paints a picture: To quote from his post: …a planned hardware maintenance with our service provider exceeded the one hour service window with a whopping three hours. Monday morning we experienced unus
23/02/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SaaS Implementation. A Case Study and a Call for a Deeper Needs Analysis…

By Ben Kepes

I spend a lot of time hand waving about the joys of SaaS accounting, I thought it’d be an idea to write some stories of successful implementations – kind of a case-study-lite type series. If you’re a vendor with a story to tell (or even better and end user with

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23/02/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Open-Xchange Gains SaaS Traction

By Krishnan Subramanian
Open-Xchange, pushed as an open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, is a versatile collaboration tool helping enterprises, academia and government take advantage of their smart collaboration capabilities. In this era where having a good collaboration platform is turning out to be a competitive
22/02/2010 Posted in Design, Product reviews Leave a comment

Central Desktop Rolls Out Big Changes to their UI

By Ben Kepes
Central Desktop (more on them here)  is today unveiling version 2.0 of its offering that is delivering an entire new user interface for it’s customers. A quick update on the past year for Central Desktop: 44% year-over-year growth in revenue (gross bookings) Employee growth from 20 t
21/02/2010 Posted in Analysis Leave a comment

Google Gears Gone

By Krishnan Subramanian
Google Gears, a technology developed by Google to offer offline functionality for browser based SaaS applications, is officially dead. Google today announced that they are not developing Google Gears any more because they plan to push this offline functionality into HTML 5.If you've wondered why t

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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