Category Archives: Strategy

17/06/2010 Posted in Strategy 4 Comments

Zuora and Azure Hook Up to Bill the Cloud

By Ben Kepes
TweetAnd here was me thinking the cloud was all about altruism – no folks, it’s about money, pure and simple. Saving it at the buy-side, making it at the sell-side. News today from Zuora (see disclosure) that they will join the Microsoft Windows Azure Technology Adoption Program (TAP) as the fir
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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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09/06/2010 Posted in Strategy 1 Comment

Microsoft’s Private Cloud Is #NotACloud?

By Krishnan Subramanian
While talking about Private Clouds on Twitter, Sam Johnston (who is currently with Google and involved in OCCI , Cloud Audit, etc.) used to refer to them as #notacloud. His argument is that the so called Private Clouds are nothing but virtualization with management interface slapped around it. Even
09/06/2010 Posted in duane jackson, Small business, sridhar vembu, Strategy, tony hsieh, zappos 3 Comments

On Bootstrapping. And Big Bucks. And Organic Growth

By Ben Kepes
Tweet Recently there have been a few posts about growth through funding and growth through organic means. Tony Hsieh from Zappos told his tale of woe about the expectations of VC’s in terms of good exits. On the other hand, Sridhar Vembu, Founder of Zoho (disclosure – Zoho is exclusive spons
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02/06/2010 Posted in Small business, Strategy 9 Comments

Integration is Good… When You Actually Do It (Part Two)

By Ben Kepes
A month or so ago I wrote a post critical of the integration one vendor had made with the Google apps marketplace. Yesterday I was perusing Twitter when I came across this tweet: I’m actually a user of Xero for three of my businesses, so I was looking forward to seeing what their inclusion
27/05/2010 Posted in Small business, Strategy Leave a comment

A Tale of Two Generations – Sage Languishes while Financial Force Innovates

By Ben Kepes
Software is undergoing a generational change - I thought I'd pull out an example to show what the old generation is doiing and contrast that to what the "cool kids" are doing.I was interested to read Dennis Howlett’s post about Sage recently. In his post Dennis reflected on the signals he’s gett
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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24/05/2010 Posted in General, Strategy Leave a comment

On Google’s Analytics Gallery, Terms and Conditions, Software Ownership and Responsiveness

By Ben Kepes
This starts out as a chastisement for Google and ends up congratulatory. Read on for details. So Google launched an app gallery for Google Analytics – how interesting can that be you ask? Well quite interesting from a “who owns my stuff perspective” but first an intro about the gallery. I
19/05/2010 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
13/05/2010 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

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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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