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January 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

By Ben Kepes

Now this is an interesting piece of scuttlebutt that I was alerted to via a private message. It seems that Intuit have quietly begun pushing QuickBooks users who have “outgrown” their own solutions on to Intacct. This is particularly interesting given the fact that Intuit, a venerable provider with a

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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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December 16, 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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November 21, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS Accounting Roundup

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been travelling for the past couple of weeks and haven’t kept up to date with news from the SaaS accounting companies that I usually watch closely. Here’s a summary of stuff that’s happened of late. Quick general disclosure though, I have consulted to a number of the companies below

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November 9, 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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October 24, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Shows its Hand–Enterprise Software Gets a Whole Lot More Interesting and NetSuite in his Sights

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago when the war of words between oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff went down, many of us characterized the battle as the tired old vendors versus the new upstarts. Commentators got tunnel vision parsing the events as a kind of binary example

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October 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

OKTA Builds Native MFA SSO Offering

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written a bunch in the past about how single sign on is growing in importance as organizations and the individuals inside them struggle to manage the wealth of different applications they interface with. One of the tools that is able to manage this difficult is Single SIgn On (SSO).

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October 11, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Analyst Relations–Contrasting Salesforce, NetSuite and Oracle

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past years exploring the world of enterprise software and cloud – two distinct areas that are tending towards a greater and greater intersect. In my journey of discover I’ve been fortunate that, as well as lots of conversations with customers, I’ve

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September 14, 2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

Is the Stack Dead?

By Ben Kepes

For years now those of us who talk Cloud on a daily basis have used variations on a triangle shape as a way to articulate what Cloud actually is and how the various services that make up Cloud can be differentiated. Traditional thinking (if one can have traditional thinking in

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September 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acumatica Offers Manufacturing Software on Azure

By Ben Kepes

I have a bit of a particular interest in Cloud ERP providers moving into the manufacturing space. Manufacturing is a highly complex space and one where the traditional ERP vendors have a very strong position – manufacturing relies on complex interconnected functionalities and often needs the connection of multiple organizations,

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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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