Tag Archives: Google apps

08/02/2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Google Apps Security Tool from BetterCloud

By Ben Kepes

One of the key issues for organizations moving to Google for office productivity applications is the ability to enforce policy on end users around sharing outside of the organization. This issue is a good example of the tension that exists between keeping an offering as simple as possible, and ensuring

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09/01/2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Google Apps Marketplace–Chances of Survival

By Ben Kepes

Over on his blog, VC Brad Feld posted about the experience of three of his portfolio companies being part of the Google Apps Marketplace – Spanning, Yesware and Attachments are all built on top of Google Apps and Feld is particularly positive about their experience; While Google has been building

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19/12/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud Considerations–A Need for Clarity

By Ben Kepes

As I travel around talking to organizations and the decision makers within them about Cloud Computing, I find myself enumerating a list of benefits that many of us believe come with Cloud Computing. The list includes scalability, economic benefits, the ability to focus on core business, etc. I must have

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16/12/2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Application Integration in the Wild–Can Discrete Apps Work for SRP?

By Ben Kepes

Last week I posted news of Intacct’s new SRP offering that ties together Clarizen, Salesforce and Intacct’s own system. It was timely given that only the week before I moderated a panel at CloudBeat that brought together a bunch of folks who think deeply about the application integration space –

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21/09/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Okta and Cloud Sherpas Partner to Accelerate GAPE Enterprise Adoption

By Ben Kepes

Identity management is one of the big challenges to be faced in easing the adoption of cloud within enterprise. Okta (more on them here) and Cloud Sherpas (more on them here) have announced a partnership that is squarely aimed at easing the barriers of entry into enterprise for Google Apps.

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23/08/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

PipeJump from Future Simple–Another Small Biz CRM

By Ben Kepes

Small businesses, formerly unable to enjoy the real benefits that CRM offers, are seemingly now spoilt for choice – there seem to be dozens of companies offering lightweight CRM specifically for SMBs – offerings from Zoho, CapsuleCRM are but a few of the multitude of offerings that exist. Today it’s

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02/06/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud Sherpas Rolls up Google Apps Reseller Omnetic

By Ben Kepes

I’ve previously held up Cloud Sherpas as a smart player in the cloud ecosystem area. They’re both a reseller of, and a contributor to, Google apps via their service offering and their product, SherpaTools. Today they’re continuing their expansion by announcing the acquisition of Omnetic, a West Coast Google Apps

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27/08/2008 Posted in Business, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy, The Cloud 4 Comments

Getting SaaS adopted at an enterprise level

By Ben Kepes

Is hard… simple as that What WILL however help it along is things like the announcement today (with a hat tip to MF) that Fronde has just been appointed the first Google enterprises partner for New Zealand. Fronde will be Google’s first partner in New Zealand for the Google Security,

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07/05/2008 Posted in Efficiency, IT, SaaS 5 Comments

Google hosted apps satire

By Ben Kepes

I ran into this the other day… Intermedia.NET, the US leader in Microsoft Exchange hosting for small and medium businesses (SMBs), today praised the innovative new service, Google Apps for Your Domain. By offering 24×0 support, no wireless access and scanning of company email and documents, Google has bucked the

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23/04/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Microsoft gets a trifecta!

By Ben Kepes

I’d avoided posting about Microsoft’s latest offering, Albany, because there is really not much anyone in the SaaS world can find to say about it…. I can’t resist however so here goes. Basically it seems that Albany is a way to derive some revenue out of existing products that aren’t

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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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