Tag Archives: SAP

July 20, 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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July 15, 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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August 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, Strategy Leave a comment

Some cool stuff for SAP

By Ben Kepes

Has social media found a role within enterprise? I know it’s hard to believe but people are doing some really cool stuff for SAP. A bunch of geographically distributed people from various stakeholders (industry observers, Siemens, Adobe, SAP insiders and consultants etc). Details of who was involved can be seen

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May 14, 2008 Posted in Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

SAP and SaaS again…

By Ben Kepes

Recent announcements by SAP that its long awaited BusinessByDesign SaaS product would be significantly delayed has got the commentators buzzing about the issues facing SAP. It’s been said a number of times in the past that there is a big difference between the business model, revenue stream and development cycle

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May 5, 2008 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Where incumbents go wrong

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I saw this from Ovum analysing SAP’s Q1 financials. There are a couple of take outs from this that really struck me with respect to SaaS and incumbent business models. 1) The company is still growing its core business (double digit growth no less)

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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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