Category Archives: The Cloud

September 20, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, The Cloud, Web x.0 2 Comments

Joining the microblogging legions….

By Ben Kepes

Legions of different applications that is… At the recent Techcrunch50, Twitter-for-enterprise startup Yammer took out the top prize. I was interested to read a post by Bernard a couple of days later where he uncharacteristically lashed the decision. Basically Bernard calls Yammer a "me too" offering that offers little that

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September 12, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 1 Comment

Playing the contrarian

By Ben Kepes

I was a little surprised when I saw this post by Rodrigo over on the Zoho blog. The title struck me as a little strange coming from someone who works for a business that is pushing the SaaS boundaries – what was he up to saying that Software + Services

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September 9, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 8 Comments

“SaaS market will ‘collapse’ in two years” – I don’t think so!

By Julian Stone

Why is it that doomsayers popup every now and then with a completely negative message and somehow manage to get major press. Harry Debes, CEO of Law Software has publicly declared that the sky will fall on SaaS (Software as a Service) companies in 2 years. Personally I think it

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Design, The Cloud, Web x.0 4 Comments

And it’s over…

By Ben Kepes

Sitting in the last session of the conference – Ismael is going over the tools used to run the entire operation – 500 physical attendees and a couple of thousand virtual ones. All planned and arranged in a couple of months – it’s been a whirlwind. Overall it’s been great

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

A monolith opens up

By Ben Kepes

Really interesting to read this article in BusinessWeek. It tells the tale of Unilever, the massive company that brings us such staple items as Vaseline(!) It seems Unilever is realising that the college graduates they’re trying to attract simply cannot function within a rigidly locked-down IT infrastructure, where outside-the-firewall IM,

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Business, SaaS, Society, The Cloud 1 Comment

Money 2.0 Panel

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just finished moderating the Money 2.0 panel at the Office 2.0 conference. We were a little time-compressed as the previous session had run late. All in all it went pretty well. The participants were; Aaron Forth (Mint.com) Marc Hedlund (Wesabe) Justin Kitch (Intuit) Jeff Schultz (Bill.com) Mike McDerment (FreshBooks)

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud 1 Comment

Project Management 2.0

By Ben Kepes

Fellow blogger Zoli Erdos is moderating the panel. Panelists are; Dean Carlson (Viewpath) Andrew Filev (Wrike) Bruce Henry (LiquidPlanner) Mark Mader (Smartsheet.com) Guy Shani (Clarizen) Everyone intros their product – interesting that there doesn’t seem to be much differentiation in project management – they’re all perhaps fighting for the same

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, The Cloud, Web x.0 1 Comment

Google and Office 2.0

By Ben Kepes

10 things I can do in the cloud today, that I couldn’t do a year ago. Keynote by head of the enterprise applications team, Matthew Glotzbach. He’s drunk from the Kool-Aid big time! It was a very Google centric presentation – but cool nonetheless. Everything on the go – iPhone

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September 5, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Zoho docs – yet another reason operating systems will become irrelevant

By Ben Kepes

Zoho is launching Zoho docs today at the Office 2.0 conference. In essence Zoho Docs is a central place to manage all your personal documents. The same way Windows explorer helps manages your desktop files. It’s got all the good drag-and-drop goodness you’d expect from an explorer type product, integrates

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September 4, 2008 Posted in Design, The Cloud 1 Comment

Cloud computing

By Ben Kepes

Or Hariv agreed to moderate the cloud computing session. Benefits – accessibility and network effects. People getting very focused on technology discussing whether or not cloud computing is revolutionary. I bravely advocated the user perspective saying that cloud computing is an enabler – bringing technologies and processes formerly only available

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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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