Category Archives: enterprise

13/08/2010 Posted in enterprise 1 Comment

Splunk Makes Monitoring Clouds Easy

By Krishnan Subramanian
Even though cloud makes provisioning of IT resources just a click away, it is only the beginning of the game. Cloud infrastructure is not a miracle pill that completely eliminates any need for IT. The typical IT management problems of the traditional computing world is carried forward to the cloud b
13/07/2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews, SaaS 2 Comments

AffinityLive – PSA For Us All

By Ben Kepes

I posted recently about OpenAir, NetSuite’s PSA offering. Hot on the heels of that I talked with Geoff McQueen, founder of Hiive Systems an Australian vendor who is bringing its own PSA solution to market later this year. Geoff gave me a deep dive into their offering, AfifinityLive and despite

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26/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, SaaS 2 Comments

Convergence? Or a Quasi Suite

By Ben Kepes

For awhile now I’ve been writing about suite vs best of breed. My thoughts have admittedly wavered a little bit, on the one hand I am a believer in the web being the platform, but on the other I’ve got extensive experience with the nightmare that is tying apps together.

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23/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 1 Comment

Private Cloud Redux – Nimbula Bets on Today’s Reality

By Ben Kepes
A number of cloud commentators seem to get all pent up and in a state of agitated hand-wringing about private cloud. “But it’s not the true cloud” they say, having some sort of dogmatic view over what is, and isn’t cloud. In my mind – so long as it’s scalable and abstracts management awa
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22/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 4 Comments

Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

By Ben Kepes
Tweet I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustra
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21/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, General 1 Comment

Rackspace Gives Email Users Choice

By Ben Kepes
Tweet I believe that all generic technology services should be outsourced. Anything that doesn’t provide a point of differentiation for your business is a candidate to move to the cloud. One of the first applications in this class is, I believe, email. Beyond security of your data, there is no com
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16/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, Small business, sterling commerce 3 Comments

B2B Integration, Available to the Little Guys at Last. Acquisition, funding and bootstrapping

By Ben Kepes
Tweet Lots of interesting happenings in the B2B integration space – some funding, an acquisition and a little battle aiming to bootstrap its way to stardom. Recently IBM announced its acquisition of Sterling Commerce – Colleague Ray Wang does an, as-always, excellent job of giving a quick persp
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10/06/2010 Posted in enterprise, Strategy 3 Comments

Box Takes on Desktop Sync, the Space Gets Ever More Crowded

By Ben Kepes
Tweet I’ve written before about a number of desktop sync products I use – these products help me to keep my life organized across multiple devices (see my Syncplicity posts for example). The fact is that, for me at least, I live on three different laptops, a desktop from time-to-time and one or
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01/06/2010 Posted in enterprise Leave a comment

Business ByDesign meet NetSuite, NetSuite meet Business ByDesign

By Ben Kepes
I wanted to refrain a little while from commenting on SAP’s announcement of the long-awaited (and oft-maligned) Business ByDesign on-demand product (as an aside, is it just me who feels a little finny calling a SAP product SaaS?). Zoli has covered the launch previously, but I wanted to return
26/05/2010 Posted in enterprise, Strategy 2 Comments

Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)

By Ben Kepes
A month or so ago I sat in a room with a small group of bloggers discussing the enterprise software space with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and one sentence he said stuck in my mind: The same was is playing out in this space all over again. And just like last time, the suite’s will win Nelson was an
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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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