Tag Archives: erp

10/01/2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Cloudwashing from SAP. Sigh

By Ben Kepes

“With SAP Business ByDesign, SAP was (and still is) the first company to release an ERP suite that users access and work with through the Internet.” Stuff like this frankly really peeves me. How long ago was it that the traditional vendors were decrying cloud as insecure, a waste of

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21/09/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimsoft Monitors SAP Environments

By Ben Kepes

Nimsoft, the company that provides IT management as a service (more on them here) today rolled out monitoring for a range of SAP products and services. The aim here is for Nimsoft Monitor to become the default monitoring service across all the products and services an enterprise uses – the

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29/07/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Reporting Season–NetSuite and Intacct go Stratospheric

By Ben Kepes

In these strained economic times with businesses retrenching and pulling back on non-essential projects, one could have expected to see the reported numbers for software companies also trend downwards. Right? Well not if a couple of recent results from SaaS accounting firms are anything to go by. Intacct Firstly Intacct,

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01/03/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite and Informatica Team Up to Preempt SAP

By Ben Kepes

News today that NetSuite and Informatica are partnering in an effort to provide what they’re calling a “two teir approach” to delivering subsidiary ERP solutions for large businesses. A tacit acceptance of the fact that for these largest of businesses at least, an on-premise ERP solution will, for the foreseeable

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10/10/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite – Sales Success, Keeping the Ecosystem Happy and a Hint of Future Moves

By Ben Kepes

I’m in Sydney en route to a CloudCamp in Canberra and taking in a day of the inaugural NetSuite APAC SuiteCloud event. Over lunch with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, APAC MD Chris Schafer and a bunch of customers and channel partners, I got to talk to people about some interesting

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23/02/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SaaS Implementation. A Case Study and a Call for a Deeper Needs Analysis…

By Ben Kepes

I spend a lot of time hand waving about the joys of SaaS accounting, I thought it’d be an idea to write some stories of successful implementations – kind of a case-study-lite type series. If you’re a vendor with a story to tell (or even better and end user with

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18/11/2009 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Microsoft Flicks the Switch on Azure, Acumatica Standing By

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference the switch will finally be flicked on Microsoft’s long awaited cloud computing offering Azure. Of course spinning up an infrastructure offering is one thing, having products and services to run on it is another – and this is where my accounting/ERP interest dovetails

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14/07/2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, Manufacturing, Strategy 2 Comments

Enterprise software adding value – or not

By Ben Kepes

I was a little flummoxed to read that Levi Strauss, the venerable Jeans maker, reported a 98% drop in quarterly net profit last week. Well I wasn’t flummoxed about the drop in profit – these are difficult times after all. No, what really surprised me was the major reason given

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10/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS 1 Comment

SaaS for enterprise supply chain…

By Ben Kepes

This morning I had a session with Viisibility, a company with an interesting supply chain management and reporting solution. Viisibiity builds customised web based communities that accesses member’s business systems, be they financial, planning, manufacturing, accounting or ERP. The key to Viisibility’s offering is that it is software agnostic, part

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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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