Tag Archives: Force.Com

June 22, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 4 Comments

Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

By Ben Kepes
Tweet I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustra
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June 3, 2010 Posted in appcloud, Design, engineyard, rails, xcloud 3 Comments

EngineYard Goes Upmarket with its Ruby PaaS

By Ben Kepes
Tweet Just the other day Krish posted about the new partnership between Apigee and Heroku the Ruby PaaS player. Hot on the heels of that announcement comes news that EngineYard are partnering with TerreMark to provide a more enterprise class Ruby PaaS. First some background – EngineYard already h
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August 6, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, New business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 2 Comments

Trineo – Heading for the Big Time

By Ben Kepes


A few months ago I wrote a href="http://www.cloudave.com/link/making-crm-work-for-verticals"
target="_blank">post discussing some interesting vertical offerings that I’d seen built on top of the class="zem_slink" href="http://www.salesforce.com/"
rel="homepage"
title="Salesforce">salesforce.com platform. I alluded to a new offering that was, at that time in stealth mode – the company behind that offering, Trineo has been invited to San Francisco next week to pitch to a panel of investment and IT gurus, including class="zem_slink" href="http://www.sequoiacap.com/"
rel="homepage"
title="Sequoia Capital">Sequoia Capital, as part of the final selection process for the Force 40 Innovation Showcase competition, run by class="zem_slink" href="http://www.salesforce.com/"
rel="homepage" title="Salesforce">Salesforce.com as part of their Dreamforce conference in November.



Trineo is a development and


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June 20, 2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

SaaS VC 101

By Daniel Fowlie

Courtesy of Salesforce’s monthly newsletter I came across this webinar entitled SaaS VC 101. It’s naturally got a Force.com angle to it but it’s got some points of interest for SaaS in general. The webinar is presented by VC firm Emergence Capital who are 100% focused on SaaS and technology

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May 8, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, PaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Benioff – Web 3.0 is PaaS

By Ben Kepes

I love this – at the Salesforce.com mega conference in London, Marc Beniof stated that; We think Web 3.0 is now upon us. It’s the era of platforms….New platforms are coming right out of the cloud. It’s time to make a choice. You can continue to build your applications in

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April 30, 2008 Posted in IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

New McKinsey study on SaaS for enterprise…

By Ben Kepes

A new McKinsey report just released documents the paradigm shift evident in corporate IT. The survey canvassed 850 corporate software buyers and shows just how much attention on-demand is gaining in their minds. Key takeaways; SaaS is rapidly becoming mainstream 75% are favourably disposed to utilising SaaS for development and

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March 4, 2008 Posted in SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Who is using Force.com?

By TroyWing

A number of prominent blogs including Renee Boucher Ferguson, Sinclair Schuller and Bob Warfield this morning wrote about the outcome of an informal straw poll conducted during a panel discussion hosted by Phil Wainewright at the OpSource SaaS summit this week. In a show of hands, Out of 250 ISV’s

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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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