Tag Archives: New Zealand

25/01/2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Xero Market Update–Hockeystick Achieved

By Ben Kepes

Xero has just given a market update in advance of heir partner conference next week. The numbers are all heading in the right direction despite the fact that Xero is yet to break even – previous market announcements indicated that Xero was following a strategy that put market growth ahead

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03/01/2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

By Ben Kepes

It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its home market of Australia and New Zealand, MYOB is facing a

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17/12/2011 Posted in Business 8 Comments

New Zealand – Celebrate the Organic Growth Businesses!

By Ben Kepes

Over on his blog TradeMe alumnus Rowan Simpson has recently been giving some New Zealand startups the opportunity to tell their stories – it’s a great series that is well worth reading and it includes some posts by companies whose founders are friends of mine including Ponoko, Vend, MinuteDock, Polar

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01/11/2011 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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17/10/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Kiwi Airline Management System Scores AirAsia as a Customer

By Ben Kepes

I’m doing a bit of consulting work in the airline transport industry around cloud and API enablement and, as part of my research, I spent some time talking with Mark McCaughan, CEO of New Zealand based company Merlot. Merlot is a vendor that has created an application designed to optimize

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28/09/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NZ Cloud Code of Practice

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just heard that a draft of the Terms of Reference for the New Zealand Cloud Code of Practice have been released – the document, for those interested, can be viewed here. The initiative is something I support and something I’ve kept a bit of a watching brief on –

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05/09/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Air New Zealand–Please Sort out Your Insurance Partner

By Ben Kepes

I love Air New Zealand – I spend a significant amount of time on their planes and try, whenever possible, to evangelize them as an airline. The have, in my view, the best service bar none, and it’s always a pleasure to travel with them. So on the (admittedly exceptionally

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02/09/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Convergence–Mobile, Web and Cloud Improve Customer Experience at NZSki

By Ben Kepes

Part of my excitement about cloud is that it seems to me to be one of the factors that is enabling a real change in the way people interact with each other and with organizations. Recently and old-schoolmate of mine (from longer ago than either of us would like to

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21/08/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Pacific Fibre Signs Vodafone

By Ben Kepes

Pacific Fibre announced this morning that Vodafone New Zealand had signed up to a 10 year multi-million dollar deal to acquire international bandwidth from the fledgling cable company. With this deal, and the previously announced one with REANNZ, Pacific Fibre should have done enough to get them through to build

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09/08/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud POS Vendor VendHQ Picks Up Funding

By Ben Kepes

An exciting development that I’ve known about for some time but that finally goes public today is the news that New Zealand based Cloud POS vendor, Vend (see my GigaOm piece on them here) has secured a new funding round from German venture capital group PointNine Capital. Interestingly enough, PointNine

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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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