Tag Archives: cloud computing

March 29, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SnapLogic Adds Monitoring to Integration

By Ben Kepes

Application integration in a cloudy world is an important and often forgotten area that I am predicting will see significant movement in the months ahead. One of the long standing providers in the field who still remains independent (after Dell’s purchase of Boomi and IBM’s purchase of CastIron) is SnapLogic

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March 28, 2012 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Is Multi-Currency Actually Important for SMBs?

By Ben Kepes

Of late there has been a bunch of discussion about whether or not multi-currency functionality is important for SMBs. Some commentators came to this conversation from the perspective that if SaaS accounting vendors want to achieve scale, they have to provide for multi-currency. n a post discussing this AccMan says

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March 26, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?

By Ben Kepes

Recently KashFlow CEO Duane Jackson made the decision to reduce the trial periods offered on his product from 60 days down to 14. In blogging about this change, Jackson explained the decision saying; We analysed our trial data and found that the vast majority of people who never converted from

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March 20, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

LiveMigrate Eases the MYOB to Xero Pathway

By Ben Kepes

I’m involved in a good half a dozen different businesses and do all the bookkeeping/accounting for most of them. Over the past 15 years I’ve got pretty comfortable with the main desktop accounting product in Australia/New Zealand, MYOB. Over the past five years or so I’ve used and reviewed pretty

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March 15, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

CloudSherpas and GlobalOne Merge–It’s a Services RollUp

By Ben Kepes

I was speaking with some folks in the cloud services game the other day about the state of the industry and the key theme in our conversation was that it’s absolutely a land grab out there. Cloud is a nascent but rapidly growing field and if the predictions that everyone

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March 13, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

On Geographic Flexibility–OxygenCloud Understands the Need

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written a lot lately about the need for cloud vendors to provide services that are tailored to specific countries or regions. Whether this is due to cross-cultural reasons or merely because of concerns around US located data, as a non US commentator I’m constantly talking with customers who want

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March 12, 2012 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Acclipse Rolls Out Client Side Application (Again)

By Ben Kepes

[Update - it turns out Acclipse have purchased an existing product with some 5 years development and the partnership with BankLink is for the bank feed part of the deal. I'll try and get my hands on the client side application to review] Acclipse is a New Zealand based accounting

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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director

By Ben Kepes

Ever since is launched, Nimbula has been focused on brining “Amazon-like” functionality to private data centers. There messaging has unwaveringly been about the agility and flexibility of the public cloud, for private data center operations. Their aim came another step closer today with the beta release of version two of

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February 9, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloud and the Enterprise

By Ben Kepes

Recently I spent a remarkably enjoyable hour chatting with Steve Gillmor and John Taschek on a special enterprise-focused Gillmor Gang. Somehow I was roped in to be the provocateur and judging by many of the comments on the back channel – it would seem I was successful. Over the next

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February 7, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

VMware Eases Service Provider Cloud Delivery with vCIM

By Ben Kepes

Service providers have an important role in helping drive the adoption of cloud computing. Part of ensuring that service providers are able to do this requires giving them a tool set that eases the creation of cloud services that their customers can use. I liken it to the automation of

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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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