Tag Archives: Business

February 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

10000 Jobs, and All Requiring Cloud Skills. Who Said Cloud Was Just About IT?

By Ben Kepes

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU.  How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find.  If that’s your cup of tea,

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February 1, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud Computing is Changing YOUR Job!

By Ben Kepes

Excuse the slightly cataclysmic title of this post, but the first post for 2012 in the CloudU notebook series is one which hopefully will get you thinking about your career and the changes it is going to undergo over the years to come. One of the drivers for the CloudU

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January 3, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

By Ben Kepes

It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its home market of Australia and New Zealand, MYOB is facing a

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December 14, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

ControlMyCloud Goes Beta

By Ben Kepes

One of the concerns that many people have when considering a move to the cloud is that of granular control. The last thing an organization wants is to open the flood gates to uncontrolled performance, cost or poor efficiency. Sensible Cloud is trying to deliver on these concerns and is

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December 13, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BMC Helping with the Cloud Transition

By Ben Kepes

While many commentators would say that traditional organizations (both vendor and end user) are not making the move to the cloud because of issues around lethargy, inertia, risk-aversion and being process bound, the fact is that despite large organizations having significant resource to put into IT, sometimes they’re just so

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December 7, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

UnemployedMBA–Grab Him While You Can

By Ben Kepes

Last week at CloudBeat as I was decompressing for a session, a well dressed gentleman approached me for a chat. Nimish Jalan proceeded to discuss with me the specific topics of the panel I’d just moderated, some themes he’d seen emerging at the show, and general trends in the industry.

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November 17, 2011 Posted in Business Comments Off

iComplete–The World’s Simplest CRM?

By Ben Kepes

There’s been a lot of talk among a new breed of CRM providers recently about finding the right balance of functionality and complexity to meet the needs of very small businesses. While salesforce has cleaned up in the enterprise cloud CRM space, there’s no denying it’s product offering is both

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November 11, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A Checklist for Customer Cloud Security

By Ben Kepes

I often hear how Cloud is insecure from people who claim that unauthorized access is a real and significant risk for users of Cloud Computing. It always kind of frustrates me as, in my (admittedly somewhat biased) view, Cloud is as secure, if not more so, than traditional IT. In

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October 10, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Totango Powers SaaS Vendor Insights

By Ben Kepes

Recently I’ve been doing a fair amount of advisory work with SaaS startups that are just taking their first tentative steps to market. I’ve sat in meetings at length trying to drill into sales cycles and pricing strategies and it often seems that organizations are flying a little blind without

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October 7, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

You’re Never Too Big–DropBox Drops the Ball

By Ben Kepes

I spend a bunch of time talking to different vendors about their products and services – having done what I do for a few years now it’s interesting to see how companies that I knew when they were tiny 3 person start ups start to act once they’ve got hundreds

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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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