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27/05/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Acumatica Update

By Ben Kepes

It’s been six months or so since I spoke with mid-market ERP vendor Acumatica (much more on them here) so I was please to spend some time with them last week getting an update about how they’re going. As a reminder Acumatica is an interesting ERP vendor whose main differentiator

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14/03/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FinancialForce and Service Resource Planning

By Ben Kepes

When FinancialForce announced the acquisition a few months ago of the Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution created by Appirio – it seemed an obvious fit. FinancialForce is the financial solution of choice on the force.com platform, while a huge number of service professionals utilize the salesforce application itself. Tying all

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07/12/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FinancialForce Acquires Appirio PSA

By Ben Kepes

I’ve covered professional services automation (PSA) software previously – NetSuite created some news awhile back when they acquired OpenAir sold it as a module to their ERP offering. This morning FinancialForce is announcing that they have acquired the PSA solution originally developed by Appirio. FinancialForce says that it is making

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03/11/2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Cloud ERP Adoption Barriers–Functionality or FUD?

By Ben Kepes

Recently Frank Scavo wrote a great post regarding what he determined was the key success factor for SaaS suites: functional parity. The thesis of Scavo’s argument was that, until cloud vendors provide true functional parity with on-premise solution, a “rip and replace” will simply not be viable. As he said

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27/10/2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

FinancialForce Update

By Ben Kepes

I spoke the other day with Jeremy Roche, MD of FinancialForce the accounting application built on top of force.com. Readers will recall that about a year ago Coda2Go, as FinancialForce was called then, was partially acquired by salesforce.com – I wanted to catch up with Roche and see how things

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13/07/2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews, SaaS 2 Comments

AffinityLive – PSA For Us All

By Ben Kepes

I posted recently about OpenAir, NetSuite’s PSA offering. Hot on the heels of that I talked with Geoff McQueen, founder of Hiive Systems an Australian vendor who is bringing its own PSA solution to market later this year. Geoff gave me a deep dive into their offering, AfifinityLive and despite

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26/05/2010 Posted in enterprise, Strategy 2 Comments

Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)

By Ben Kepes
A month or so ago I sat in a room with a small group of bloggers discussing the enterprise software space with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and one sentence he said stuck in my mind: The same was is playing out in this space all over again. And just like last time, the suite’s will win Nelson was an
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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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