Category Archives: Strategy

May 12, 2010 Posted in Strategy 3 Comments

Microsoft Office 2010 – A Commemorative Post

By Ben Kepes
So today is launch day, the day that Microsoft Office 2010 is released out and the world gets to see what a Microsoft take on a Software plus Services fuelled office productivity suite looks like. The world has already been inundated with reflections on the product itself so it seemed a good time to
May 10, 2010 Posted in marketing, Strategy Leave a comment

Media Relations is an Ongoing Process. Sage Seems to Forget That.

By Ben Kepes
A year ago I wrote a post congratulating Sage on an increase in communications they’d had with me. As I said at the time: So I give Sage significant kudos for reaching out and contacting some of us, but I’m also mindful that they’ve created an air of expectation, the hope of an organisat
May 6, 2010 Posted in Strategy Leave a comment

Gone Google or Google Gone?

By Krishnan Subramanian
Google launched their Google Apps campaign called Gone Google with so much fanfare. Now there seems to be some backlash against their offering. There were some rumors that Yale is delaying the switch to Google Apps due to security concerns and a Techcrunch post about concerns raised by City of Lo
May 5, 2010 Posted in General, Strategy Leave a comment

Tech Stocks, Some Interesting Trends

By Ben Kepes
So Greece is imploding, the flow on effects to the greater Eurozone (and even farther afield) are unknown. Wall Street is down and it’s fun to look at how tech stocks are doing… . Microsoft, down 2.37% on heavy trading. One million iPads and Apple is still down, even so more than Micros
May 3, 2010 Posted in Design, Small business, Strategy Leave a comment

It’s All About Support – Granular Is Good

By Ben Kepes
The other day I had one of those nightmare situations that only those who are similarly detail-focused (some would say retentive) as myself can appreciate. Now I’m a stickler for detail – it really offends my sensibilities when things aren’t stacked in order, when things don’t match and, mo
April 29, 2010 Posted in Analysis, Strategy Leave a comment

Red Hat Takes Another Step Towards Cloud Computing

By Krishnan Subramanian
Redhat, the poster child of open source and maker of most popular Linux distribution in the enterprise market, took another step into the cloudy future. Redhat recently released version 5.5 of their popular Enterprise Linux distribution. They followed it up with an announcement focused mainly on the
April 19, 2010 Posted in Design, Strategy Leave a comment

Webinar – 10 Questions to Ask About Cloud Computing

By Ben Kepes
This week I’ve been invited to take part in a webinar with Dan Druker from Intacct, co-presenting a webinar looking at the important questions that prospective end users of cloud computing need to ask their vendors. It’s a webinar that leads on from a whitepaper we published (see disclosure) rec
April 16, 2010 Posted in General, Strategy Leave a comment

Marketing Automation Made Easy With Suitecloud Platform

By Krishnan Subramanian
Netsuite's Suitecloud is in full swing now and our own Ben and Zoli are tracking it closely. Soon the videos of Suitecloud will be available on Netsuite's Youtube channel. The flexible Suitecloud platform is already making waves and I came across an announcement about how Leadforce1's marketing aut
April 10, 2010 Posted in Strategy 2 Comments

Twitter Acquires Tweetie, What's Next?

By Krishnan Subramanian
First one of Twitter's investors, Fred Wilson, said thisMuch of the early work on the Twitter Platform has been filling holes in the Twitter product. It is the kind of work General Computer was doing in Cambridge in the early 80s. Some of the most popular third party services on Twitter are like tha
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

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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