Tag Archives: IBM

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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09/11/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Adaptive Planning Ups the Performance Management Ante

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written in the past about Adaptive Planning the corporate performance management (CPM) vendor that has been enjoying stellar growth off the back of more widespread adoption of cloud applications within mid sized organizations. I recently spoke to Adaptive Planning to get a run down on their upcoming release and

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20/07/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreshBooks Integrates with Salesforce. Democratization in Action

By Ben Kepes

This morning FreshBooks, the SaaS invoicing application that boasts hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide, will launch it’s integration with salesforce.com/ Normally another integration from FreshBooks,  company that prides itself on integrating with almost every SaaS player in the marketplace, wouldn’t raise any eyebrows – but this is interesting given

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01/06/2009 Posted in Branding, New business, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Strategy Leave a comment

Another Quiver to the HB bow

By Ben Kepes

I’ve always had a huge amount of respect for the team over at HB media – this isn’t just because I’ve been involved with them in past and present projects – long before my work with Idealog magazine I commented on their innovative business model that takes the (arguably) dying

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14/04/2008 Posted in Governance, IT, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Mashup tools for Enterprise…

By Ben Kepes

Interesting to see that IBM today released a pair of tools to help non-IT types to create, deploy and share customised web applications. Firstly IBM Mashup Center, which will go into beta tomorrow, and secondly WebSphere sMash, a development environment which incorporates dynamic scripting languages (downloadable today at www.projectzero.org). Interestingly,

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10/03/2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

Is the collaboration war just Google v Microsoft?

By The Unreasonablemen

This is a mirror post of my own blog unreasonablemen.net Pop quiz. Who is the second largest software company in the world? Who is the second largest provider of on-premise email & collaboration software?   The answer to both is IBM. The interesting thing about IBM is that they have

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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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