Category Archives: SaaS

November 19, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud 10 Comments

MYOB on the block

By Ben Kepes

Interesting to read that suitors are coming from far and wide for MYOB. Guinness Peat Group is supporting a takeover for the business in which it already holds a 13.6% stake. It has joined in with another three investors who jointly hold 34% of the company to form a united

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October 30, 2008 Posted in Blogroll, SaaS, The Cloud 1 Comment

And the Winner Is…..

By Ben Kepes

After an unprecedented response (people are so shallow out there – you offer something free and they swarm like vultures) the time has come to make the draw in the Diversity Bleeding Edge Competition. First though I’d like to run you through the exceptionally high tech process used to decide

October 24, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 4 Comments

A New Friend in the Playground

By Ben Kepes

I woke up in the middle of the night to take part in a phone conference (NZ 9am is some ungodly hour in India) only to find my time zones were confused and I was an hour to late. The conference was initiated by Telecom New Zealand and was to

October 17, 2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

CRM Webinar

By Ben Kepes

CRM is a really valuable tool that only now has become available to those on the smaller end of the business spectrum. Zoho is hosting a free webinar on “CRM Best Practices” in a few days. Most of you know that Zoho sponsors the other place I blog, you’ll also

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October 14, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Society 3 Comments

It May Be (Kind of) Ugly, But It’s What People Want

By Ben Kepes

Well not ugly – just not full of Web 2.0 rounded corners et al. I’m talking about Zoho mail, after the announcement the other day that it’s gone offline with Google gears. I’m an outlier I guess – I use Gmail pretty much exclusively, gave up on the traditional look

October 10, 2008 Posted in Business, Business and the Environment, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 81 Comments

Diversity Competition – Experience Life at the Edge

By Ben Kepes

Over on Geekzone Mauricio wants to send someone into space. Here on Diversity we’re not up to that level (yet) but we do want to send someone to the bleeding edge. I’m a firm believer in the Net PC concept – the idea that a low power machine, leveraging web

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October 9, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 17 Comments

Now this is what Traction and Credibility Taste Like

By Ben Kepes

Great for Xero that they’ve picked up one of the "big four". As announced over on the Xero blog Deloitte NZ has signed up as a Xero partner. Deloitte are one of the big boys – they don’t partner on a whim. They’ve also got international scale and presence so

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October 8, 2008 Posted in IT, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud Leave a comment

Computerworld on Chrome

By Ben Kepes

Computerworld published an article this morning looking at just how "game changing" Google’s Chrome browser is. In the article CEO of Xero, Rod Drury, Marketing manager of ProjectPartner and myself were interviewed. Check it out here.

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October 8, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand, SaaS 4 Comments

Spreading the Telco Love Around

By Ben Kepes

I like to spread the love around the telcos – the other day I posted about the cool Vodafone forum offering that really answer the needs of their own particular community of interest. Today it’s the turn of Telecom to get some bouquets. Telecom have just reviewed all their broadband

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October 1, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 10 Comments

Woot – Xero’s gone all dingo on us

By Ben Kepes

Fair suck of the sav Marge, and will ya throw another snarler on the barbie and grab me an xxxx out of the esky (sorry – just practicing for when New Zealand becomes another state of our Western neighbour). Cool to hear that Xero have fully launched their Australian offering.

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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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