Category Archives: Product reviews

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
March 22, 2010 Posted in Product reviews, Small business Leave a comment

Personal and Business Finance – Blurring the Lines

By Ben Kepes
I posted a year or so ago that: the distinction between personal and business finance is pretty blurred It was a call for micro and small business accounting vendors to offer a personal finance service in the acknowledgement that most micro businesses have an increasingly blurred line between
March 18, 2010 Posted in Product reviews, Small business Leave a comment

MYOB Goes SaaS…. Again

By Ben Kepes
I wrote almost a couple of years ago now about MYOB’s (see disclosure statement) first foray into the world of SaaS. I wasn’t overly impressed, saying at the time that: MYOB has the experience, the money and the clout to bring a product to market with the features that users need. Under this
March 11, 2010 Posted in Product reviews, Small business Leave a comment

For SMBs, Automation is King. Saasu Delivers Some

By Ben Kepes
Small and medium businesses are inherently time poor. As such any tool that automates their processes is a good thing. Those who aren’t involved in business would look at automatic bank feeds (such as those offered by Xero) as a fun toy, but little more than that. This fails to appreciate just how
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
March 5, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews Leave a comment

SherpaTools, Channel Strategies and Google Apps Management

By Ben Kepes
CloudSherpas is a systems integrator and application developer that almost exclusively deals with Google Apps (they’re a high performing Google Apps Partner having moved over 80000 users to Google Apps to date). I spent a bit of time talking to CloudSherpas CEO Michael Cohn about life as a res
February 22, 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
February 11, 2010 Posted in Product reviews, Small business Leave a comment

Zoho Invoice 2.0 Unwraps

By Ben Kepes
Zoho has just unveiled the next generation release of its invoice product. The two most notable changes are the inclusion of a nice business-logic dashboard, and the addition of expenses to the offering. Generally the UI has been greatly improved – there is nice use of tabs as opposed to separ
February 9, 2010 Posted in marketing, Product reviews, Strategy Leave a comment

Dropbox – Envisaging a Future Well Beyond Files

By Ben Kepes
I’ve been talking a lot recently to cloud storage, cloud synchronization and cloud backup vendors (all variations on a theme but they all have a different emphasis to what they do). Recently I had a couple of opportunities to talk with Dropbox, first with founder Drew Houston, and later with rec
January 28, 2010 Posted in Product reviews Leave a comment

Yuuguu Takes on the Corporate Market

By Ben Kepes
Last week Yuuguu (previous coverage here) lifted the wraps on its corporate edition, a tool that brings together web conferencing, a business-class instant messenger and presence via a single, customizable and secure collaboration platform. Yuuguu is tailoring their offering to corpora

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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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