Tag Archives: salesforce

June 21, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Benioff on the future…

By Ben Kepes

Robert Scoble interviewed salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff in a broad ranging discussion about the future of applications and platforms. It’s an interesting and insightful interview. Key takeouts and themes were; It’s not about the browser, it’s about the network. With a move to mobile and other non PC

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April 29, 2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy 3 Comments

Is there a SaaS 1.0 and a SaaS 2.0?

By Ben Kepes

With all the attention of late that PaaS providers are getting, it seems a good time to reflect on the stark contrast between two types of SaaS provider: those who do their own infrastructure, and those who farm it out. Everyone knows that salesforce.com is the grandaddy of SaaS vendors,

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April 17, 2008 Posted in Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

Zoho creating a Salesforce doppelganger… or more…

By Ben Kepes

News this morning that Zoho CRM is launching an enterprise edition. I’ve always had a little bit of scepticism about enterprise editions – knowing what I know about enterprise it seems that the only different between SMB and enterprise editions is that the latter need to be slower, more needlessly

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April 15, 2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Web x.0 1 Comment

More on SFDC/Google apps

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just been alerted to the following video; It looks compelling, and Phil Wainewright goes hyperbolic to the extreme when he says; When it takes just a mouse click to open Gmail and have the message saved with the prospect record, it won’t take long before Gmail becomes the default

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April 15, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

Salesforce and Google Apps

By Ben Kepes

The blogosphere is ablaze this morning on the formal announcement that Salesforce will be bundling (is it still called bundling when it’s SaaS!?) Google apps along with it’s CRM offering. There’s a bunch of analysis out there; Phil Waineright says; This is a huge validation for Office 2.0 Basically saying

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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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