Category Archives: enterprise

May 19, 2010 Posted in enterprise, General, marketing, Small business, Strategy 1 Comment

There’s a Reason It’s Free – Get Over It…

By Ben Kepes
I’ve been mulling this post around in my head for quite some time now – an eight hour flight across the great Australian Desert seemed as good a time as any to finally put pen to paper (fingers to keys?) and write this post. We’ve been hearing much lately about privacy concerns with free serv
May 19, 2010 Posted in enterprise Leave a comment

Booz Allen Hamilton Mk2- Enterprise 2.0 in Action

By Ben Kepes
Booz Allen Hamilton is one of those organizations that pops up every time Enterprise 2.0 is mentioned. I’ve attended at least three Enterprise 2.0 events where they were highlighted. It seems they must be the only large business doing stuff in the E20 space! Anyway - BAH just flicked the switch
May 13, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Strategy Leave a comment

Banking 2.0, The Cloud and Safety in Numbers

By Ben Kepes
A while ago, Alex Williams posted about a consortium made up of three banks – Bank of America, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Deutsche Bank – that was specifically set up as a buying alliance to source cloud infrastructure. Alex’s take on it was that this move was made because of a fru
May 11, 2010 Posted in Design, enterprise, security Leave a comment

Cloud Sherpas – Raising Money and Enhancing GAPE Admin

By Ben Kepes
I’ve written before about Cloud Sherpas, a cloud computing systems integrator and application developer. They’re a Google Apps reseller that also created SherpaTools for Google Apps, a free app that gives more administrator functionality to Google Apps users. Only a few days ago, Cloud Sherpas
May 6, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Small business 2 Comments

Integration is Good… When You Actually Do It

By Ben Kepes
Recently at the SuiteCloud event (see disclosure) I attended a presentation looking at the NetSuite integration with Google apps. At the session a development company, Daston, showed off its custom built functionality that allowed for a one way creation of calendar and mail events hin NetSuite, from
May 4, 2010 Posted in enterprise Leave a comment

SucessFactors Buys CubeTree – It’s a Defensive Move

By Ben Kepes
I wrote about CubeTree last October when they were finalist (and eventual winner) in the Enterprise 2.0 LaunchPad. News just out today that they’re to be acquired by SuccessFactors for $20 million with a three year, $30 million earn out clause. There’s been a flurry of commentary around this de
April 9, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews Leave a comment

Financial Force gets Chatter(ing)

By Ben Kepes
Right about now, Jeremy Roche the CEO of SaaS Accounting vendor FinancialForce (more on them here) is on stage at CloudForce in New York telling the world about the integration they’ve made with Salesforce’s chatter functionality. I had an opportunity to speak with Roche a week or so ago under a
April 6, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews Leave a comment

OneLogin – Single Sign On for the Enterprise

By Ben Kepes
After my recent post about LastPass,  Thomas Pedersen, a Zendesk alumnus and founder of SaaS password management tool OneLogin flicked me an email with an invitation to try out their product. OneLogin works via a browser extension which effectively pastes the credentials into your application a
April 5, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Strategy 3 Comments

Google and Resellers? – How Happy is the Relationship?

By Ben Kepes
Recently Google announced a new tool that would allow users to migrate email, contacts and calendar data from on-premise and hosted Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The tool would specifically: Perform a centrally managed bulk migration of users Selectively migrate email, calendar or conta
March 10, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 1 Comment

Google Docs Meets Outlook? – Yes, You Read That Right!

By Ben Kepes
Let’s face it – despite significant hand-waving to the contrary, Microsoft Outlook is the default email client for the vast majority of the enterprise world. No matter how much people love to hate the fact, Outlook is both widely understood and the accepted norm. I’ve talked to a number of p

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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