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February 14, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

WorldDesk and DropBox Make a Truly Virtual Desktop

By Ben Kepes

A few days ago a little battle raged around what the launch of Google’s GDrive product might mean for DropBox. At the time fellow Cloud watcher Alex Williams commented that DropBox has a lot of magic that would save its day – I wasn’t so sure but it’s nonetheless interesting

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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

OneBill Launches (Another) Subscription Commerce Platform

By Ben Kepes

Just when the world thought it was well provided for subscription commerce toolsets, OneBill is today launching its own take on this product area. Subscription billing is a massive area of opportunity as organizations look to gain increased flexibility and agility when it comes to selling their products in new

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February 9, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Google Drive, and Core Focus, and Dropbox

By Ben Kepes

News today (admittedly for the umpteenth time in the last few years) that Google looks likely to finally roll out its cloud storage product, G Drive. According to the WSJ; Drive allows people to store photos, documents and videos on Google’s servers so that they could be accessible from any

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February 8, 2012 Posted in Business 1 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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January 16, 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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January 11, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Automation Only Goes So Far–Google Apps Launches 24*7 Phone Support

By Ben Kepes

Awhile ago I wrote a case study about SmartPayroll who are bucking the trend towards automated customer service and support and providing real live people for customers to talk to. At the time it seemed that SmartPayroll were something of an outlier while other vendors were firmly fixated on human-less

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January 9, 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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November 18, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

EngineYard Adds Another Framework and Introduces Labs

By Ben Kepes

Quick post this morning to tell reader that EngineYard is rolling out yet another language/framework for its PaaS, this time Node.js. Alongside this fact (and we’ve all grown pretty well accustomed to PaaS players adding new languages and frameworks on a weekly basis, EngineYard is introducing a “labs” feature that

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November 17, 2011 Posted in Business Comments Off

iComplete–The World’s Simplest CRM?

By Ben Kepes

There’s been a lot of talk among a new breed of CRM providers recently about finding the right balance of functionality and complexity to meet the needs of very small businesses. While salesforce has cleaned up in the enterprise cloud CRM space, there’s no denying it’s product offering is both

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November 1, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Corporate IT–All That Is Bad

By Ben Kepes

I’m a volunteer firefighter here in New Zealand. As well as doing all the operational firefighting stuff, I have some responsibility for administration within the brigade and externally. As part of this role I have to utilize Fire Service systems and email. Which is where the trouble begins. Being an

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The Author

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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