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16/01/2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

IBM Goes Deep with Cloud and Social

By Ben Kepes

At Lotusphere IBM is today announcing a host of new offerings aimed at seeing it gain some relevance in the social enterprise space. There are a heap of announcements but the highlights include; New social analytics software that integrates wikis, blogs, activity streams, email, calendaring, and flags relevant data for

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22/12/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Don’t Wait for the Pros, Experiment!

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report we talked about the fact that a lack of formal Cloud Computing qualifications is something of a barrier to organizations adopting the Cloud. It’s something we’re trying, in some small way, to address with the CloudU certificate, but nonetheless the fact remains that when it

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15/11/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Syncplicity moves to Document Lifecycle and Workflow

By Ben Kepes

I use a bunch of document and file synchronization, backup and collaboration tools. From SugarSync to Box.net, from Dropbox to Syncplicity I’ve pretty much used, and currently use, them all. One of the things that interests me from a business strategy perspective, is how companies that primarily sit in the

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13/10/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

About Cloud. And SaaS. And How “Big Apps” Will Always Stay Local

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been doing this whole SaaS thing for a few years now, and fondly remember at the start when people said that only the most svelte of applications (or, more correctly, the applications with the most svelte of payloads) would ever move to the cloud. The people who used to

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20/09/2011 Posted in Business, Microsoft Word Leave a comment

What Does “Functionally Complete” Really Mean?

By Ben Kepes
Last week I wrote about some issues that were raised at a recent CloudCamp I ran in Australia. Last week I looked at the contention (of some) that Software as a Service (SaaS) is no more than the Application Service Provider (ASP) approach of the nineties, albeit with a different name. This week I
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01/11/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Free Products, Open Standards and Why Google Apps Beats OpenOffice

By Ben Kepes

Andy posted a link to this Microsoft video. Now most people would agree that this is a strange thing for Microsoft to do – OpenOffice can hardly be  threat to the MS Office franchise and this just looks like the big boys getting heavy on the little guys. On that

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18/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Office productivity apps analysis

By Ben Kepes

Raju posted about an InfoWorld analysis of alternatives to MS office. What makes the analysis interesting is that for the first time (that I’ve seen) cloud based and Open Source products have been evaluated side by side. As is often the case with these sorts of analyses, it’s what is

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17/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS Leave a comment

Google docs get templates

By Ben Kepes

Stuart alerted me to the fact that Google has released templates for Google docs. Google has created a number of templates across it’s various offerings (documents, spreadsheets, presentations). I’m stoked to see Google roll this out – it’s another feature that levels the playing field between the on-demand offerings and

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15/05/2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, My businesses, SaaS, Web x.0 Leave a comment

And google responds

By Ben Kepes

Call it observed parallelism, call it different ways of getting to the same place but either way, hot on the heels of Zoho opening up it’s services to Google and Yahoo account holders, Google has just advised that it is now possibly to view a spreadsheet directly from the URL

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10/05/2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS Leave a comment

Another word-esque development from Google docs

By Ben Kepes

Announced today that Google docs now supports customisation of style sheets. This change opens up the templating and styling options that have always been available in word, but does so obviously in an easy to collaborate, available anywhere, in the clouds way. See some examples over here. I have to

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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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