Tag Archives: SAP

10/01/2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Cloudwashing from SAP. Sigh

By Ben Kepes

“With SAP Business ByDesign, SAP was (and still is) the first company to release an ERP suite that users access and work with through the Internet.” Stuff like this frankly really peeves me. How long ago was it that the traditional vendors were decrying cloud as insecure, a waste of

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20/12/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS for Agility, Lightweight as an Enabler

By Ben Kepes

In a recent CloudU report, we talked at length about how an organization should approach a move to the Cloud and which applications they should pick as initial prospects for migrating. In the report we advised organizations to look at applications that; • Have significant interaction with external applications or services • Are

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21/10/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Box Raises $81M and Raises the Stakes at the Same Time

By Ben Kepes

Big news last week was the confirmation of a massive new funding round for perennial crowd favorite box.net. For those that didn’t see the news, Box snagged $81M from existing and new investors including salesforce and SAP ventures. While others carried news of the funding, I wanted to spend some

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21/09/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimsoft Monitors SAP Environments

By Ben Kepes

Nimsoft, the company that provides IT management as a service (more on them here) today rolled out monitoring for a range of SAP products and services. The aim here is for Nimsoft Monitor to become the default monitoring service across all the products and services an enterprise uses – the

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17/02/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud ERP for Manufacturing

By Ben Kepes

Derek Singleton of Software Advice has attempted to give some guidance to manufacturing organizations looking o roll our a SaaS product. In his post, he assesses the following vendors; Epicor Infor NetSuite Plex SAP BusinessByDesign In making his assessment, Singleton uses several different metrics; Business size product is suitable for Manufacturing modes

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10/12/2010 Posted in Business 14 Comments

SAP, Salesforce and the Velocity of Change

By Ben Kepes

This week has been an intense one for me in the Bay area. After a vibrant few days at DreamForce, the extravaganza that is the annual salesforce.com conference, I joined a select group of bloggers and analysts for a more reflective influencers briefing day yesterday in Santa Clara. I wanted

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10/10/2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite – Sales Success, Keeping the Ecosystem Happy and a Hint of Future Moves

By Ben Kepes

I’m in Sydney en route to a CloudCamp in Canberra and taking in a day of the inaugural NetSuite APAC SuiteCloud event. Over lunch with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, APAC MD Chris Schafer and a bunch of customers and channel partners, I got to talk to people about some interesting

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02/08/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

ByDesign 2.5 Releases – Some Questions (and answers)

By Ben Kepes

Given the recent release of the latest version of SAP’s ByDesign product, I wanted to revisit a conversation I had with the SAP folks back at the initial ByD launch. In terms of this particular release, Dennis Howlett has a good roundup post pointing out some thoughts, in particular the

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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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15/07/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Coupa – Managing Procurement and Expense

By Ben Kepes

Recently I spoke with Coupa Software, a provider of what they call cloud spend management (CSM) solutions. Basically CSM is a combination of e-procurement and expense management capabilities. They seek to automate the purchasing process for mid-market companies in the $100mill to $1bill turnover bracket. They seek to consolidate all

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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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