Tag Archives: Force.Com

01/09/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday

By Ben Kepes

Update – Both Infor and Concur have similar deals announcing today as well – details to come Update #2 – I spent time with Workday during the event to get a deeper understanding of what the force.com part of this deal actually means. Essentially Workday will use force.com for customers

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22/08/2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Dreamforce 2011–A Look Ahead, and a Review of Last Year’s Predictions

By Ben Kepes

Last year was the first time I attended salesforce’s DreamForce global conference (at least in person). DreamForce is a pretty intense event – tens of thousands of people, the entire Moscone center and most hotels and hospitality establishments in the vicinity are fully booked to cater for the multitude of

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24/07/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Rollbase Rolls Options for Salesforce Users

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from ReadWriteWeb One comment I hear regularly from Salesforce.com users (or potential users) are the concerns around the price, and lack of flexibility around pricing, of the Salesforce.com solution. It’s an issue that I predicted would see some movement at Dreamforce last year, but one that Salesforce.com has been mostly

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08/07/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Talking PaaS with Byron Sebastian from Heroku/salesforce

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post that garnered a fair amount of attention. In the post I talked about where I see PaaS developing and suggested that there would be a clear split between what I’ve called infrastructure PaaS (iPaaS) and application PaaS (aPaaS). It’s a concept

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14/06/2011 Posted in Business 9 Comments

On the Battle Lines of PaaS–The Future is Bifurcated

By Ben Kepes

Friend and one-time colleague Krishnan Subramanian posted recently his view of the different ways PaaS products can be differentiated. Very briefly, Krish classed products in three distinct categories; Traditional PaaS models (push your app to the PaaS and all the underlying stuff is taken care of). Examples – Heroku, Google

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14/03/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FinancialForce and Service Resource Planning

By Ben Kepes

When FinancialForce announced the acquisition a few months ago of the Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution created by Appirio – it seemed an obvious fit. FinancialForce is the financial solution of choice on the force.com platform, while a huge number of service professionals utilize the salesforce application itself. Tying all

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09/12/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Force.com and Heroku–A Kiwi Perspective

By Ben Kepes

I posted yesterday about the purchase by Salesforce of Ruby on Rails application platform Heroku. This is a quick post to look at how this can make a big difference to the ecosystem of developers out there who make their living using these tools. Fellow New Zealand company Trineo is

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02/12/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Z-Force Goes 4.0

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me and 25000 of my closest friends (!) descend on San Francisco for DreamForce, the annual salesforce.com conference. It looks set to be an amazing event and, judging by the number of invitations to parties and briefings that are descending on my email box, it looks set

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14/07/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zuora Launches Z-Force 3.0 – Changing the World One Release at a Time

By Ben Kepes

Zuora (lots more on them here and see disclosure) is today releasing the latest version of it’s billing and subscription product built on the force.com platform, Z-Force. It’s been a busy few months for Zuora and I wanted to touch base with CEO Tien Tzuo to get an update. Zuora

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01/07/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Intalio Introduces Something New – Cloud Computing

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time recently talking with Ismael Ghalimi – CEO of Intalio. Intalio has been around for a number of years but has been something of a quiet performer – Ghalimi wishes to change this with the new Intalio product range. From their website, Intalio is a company that:

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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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