Tag Archives: Google apps

May 7, 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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April 23, 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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April 15, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

Salesforce and Google Apps

By Ben Kepes

The blogosphere is ablaze this morning on the formal announcement that Salesforce will be bundling (is it still called bundling when it’s SaaS!?) Google apps along with it’s CRM offering. There’s a bunch of analysis out there; Phil Waineright says; This is a huge validation for Office 2.0 Basically saying

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April 8, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Society, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

Offline access… important or not?

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW this morning, Sarah posted asking the question, “how important is offline access?”. She states in her post that; by focusing on an offline web, one has to wonder if this is really progress: if we wanted an offline word processor, well…don’t we already have several of those

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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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