Tag Archives: Salesforce.com

February 22, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Amazon Goes PaaS–Game On. Let’s See How the Competition Respond.

By Ben Kepes

A week or two ago I had a heated argument on Twitter with someone who was adamant that Amazon would remain an infrastructure player and avoid the temptation to move up the stack. Even after the release of DynamoDB, we weren’t entirely sure as to their intentions. That kind of

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February 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

OneBill Launches (Another) Subscription Commerce Platform

By Ben Kepes

Just when the world thought it was well provided for subscription commerce toolsets, OneBill is today launching its own take on this product area. Subscription billing is a massive area of opportunity as organizations look to gain increased flexibility and agility when it comes to selling their products in new

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January 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Assistly rebrands as Desk.com. Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

It was only a few months that salesforce acquired Assistly (more here) but already we see the product relaunching under its new corporate overlords. Rebranded desk.com, the offering has been rebuilt from the ground up including an all new UI, a new HTML5 mobile app and a range of new

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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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December 6, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Intacct Launches New UI and Rolls Out SRP

By Ben Kepes

I was briefed recently by Dan Druker from Intacct about their Fall 2011 release which marks some significant improvements and expansions to their mid tier accounting solution. As part of the briefing Druker shared with me a competitive landscape diagram that Intacct produces to show where they feel they sit

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November 10, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Why I’m excited about CloudBeat 2011: It’s not just another vendor-centric event

By Ben Kepes

First posted at VentureBeat I tend to be a little jaded about cloud technology events. I’ve attended a few dozen high-profile events a year over the past handful of years, making me a bit of a veteran. The amount of cloud-washing I’ve seen, and the number of events that rapidly

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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 24, 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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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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October 6, 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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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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