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24/10/2011 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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24/10/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Buys RightNow–MyPOV

By Ben Kepes

Last month it was Salesforce buying customer support solution Assistly. This month it’s Oracle buying RightNow, a more mature, but similarly positioned player. The deal, worth around the $1.5B mark, fills the void that Oracle had in terms of customer-facing engagement tools. While Oracle does have CRM on-demand, this acquisition

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11/10/2011 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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06/10/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Introduces Cloud and Social. My Perspective

By Ben Kepes

During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought the tech world to its knees, a number of announcements were made with the usual Ellison flourishes. Curiously these two massive announcements were

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04/10/2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

On Larry, and Marc, and All Publicity being Good Publicity

By Ben Kepes

So I’ve been mentioning it on Twitter all afternoon, after being one of the first to pick up on the announcement from Marc Benioff that Oracle had reneged on its offer for a keynote position at Oracle’s OpenWorld event in San Francisco this week. Ever the showman, Benioff turned it

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23/09/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Once the BitchSlapping is Over – On Oracle and Salesforce

By Ben Kepes

Oracle Open World was a depressingly staid affair (or so it seemed from  distance) with the one exception being the schoolyard antics of Larry Ellison and salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. For those who missed it (and how could you?) some historical back and forth is in the video below. Call

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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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21/08/2008 Posted in Business, IT 4 Comments

I’m in the wrong industry

By Ben Kepes

Well kind of the right industry but the wrong part of it… or something. I wonder how Oracle CEO Larry Ellison copes – SEC filings released today show that his 2008 fiscal year total compensation package was USD84.6 million. Ellison also realised a $544 million windfall from cashing in stock

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12/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New business, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

Ellison on SaaS…

By Ben Kepes

Sometimes it’s hard to know how to take Ellison’s missives on SaaS. Bear in mind that Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, is also the founder and largest single shareholder in Netsuite (and also a major shareholder, for good measure in, salesforce.com which was founded by an ex-employee of his). In

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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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