Category Archives: Design

03/05/2010 Posted in Design, Small business, Strategy Leave a comment

It’s All About Support – Granular Is Good

By Ben Kepes
The other day I had one of those nightmare situations that only those who are similarly detail-focused (some would say retentive) as myself can appreciate. Now I’m a stickler for detail – it really offends my sensibilities when things aren’t stacked in order, when things don’t match and, mo
30/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

T Shirt Friday #41 – Pervasive

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
29/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

On Design at Apple

By Ben Kepes
Whether you love or hate the way they do business, there are not many people who would argue that Apple creates product of deep thought and beauty. In this video, Apple chief designer Jonathan Ive, he who is credited with ideating every Apple device since the first iMac, talks about purposeful desig
29/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

ClearBooks Ups the Ante

By Ben Kepes
Interesting to read that ClearBooks , the UK based privately held online accounting application, has just secured a new financing deal for an undisclosed sum. Their press release announcing the deal is a marketing message – calling out Sage and Intuit, and specifically pitching itself as a “mor
28/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Differentiating in a Commoditized World: On Syncplicity and Expanz

By Ben Kepes
At the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Allister Croll gave an excellent presentation, actually as an aside, Croll ran close to half of the Cloud Connect sessions and really did a sterling job of managing the conference. Anyway – in his session Croll was talking about the opportunities for investm
27/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Appirio Guest Post

By Ben Kepes
Over on the Appirio blog they’re running a series getting cloud perspectives from a bunch of different industry players. Appirio approached me with a bunch of questions to answer, I thought I’d repost those questions (and my answers) here. It was a general overview of current cloud trends and ba
26/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

Who Said Accountants Were Backwards?

By Ben Kepes
Interesting to see this video that Findlay & Co, a New Zealand chartered accountancy firm, came up with: It’s all part of a campaign to promote their new “iCrunch” website , essentially an online tool to get a quotation for compliance work with the ability to pay in advance. Their quote
21/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

SaaS Sales – Don’t Discount Traditional Channels

By Ben Kepes
We’ve heard for years that SaaS applications will disintermediate traditional marketing channels with it’s direct to consumer and viral uptake – many were envisaging a future without traditional media usage. The truth however seems to be somewhat different – the number of SaaS vendors I’ve
19/04/2010 Posted in Design, Strategy Leave a comment

Webinar – 10 Questions to Ask About Cloud Computing

By Ben Kepes
This week I’ve been invited to take part in a webinar with Dan Druker from Intacct, co-presenting a webinar looking at the important questions that prospective end users of cloud computing need to ask their vendors. It’s a webinar that leads on from a whitepaper we published (see disclosure) rec
16/04/2010 Posted in Design Leave a comment

It’s All About the Suite – NetSuite Enters the Box

By Ben Kepes
Today Box.net is at the NetSuite SuiteCloud conference (see disclosure re my attendance at SuiteCloud here) opening the box (bad pun intended) on their integration with NetSuite. It’s an integration that Box have built using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud development platform, and it allows NetSuite cus

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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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