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13/10/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

About Cloud. And SaaS. And How “Big Apps” Will Always Stay Local

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been doing this whole SaaS thing for a few years now, and fondly remember at the start when people said that only the most svelte of applications (or, more correctly, the applications with the most svelte of payloads) would ever move to the cloud. The people who used to

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03/10/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VisualBees–Trying to Automate Creativity

By Ben Kepes

Like many people in the technology industry, I’m regularly tasked with creating and delivering presentations – it’s something I really enjoy – spreading the message of cloud to the world. One of the things I don’t especially enjoy however is the design process around presentations – luckily I have a

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17/05/2011 Posted in Business 4 Comments

VMware Getting Seriously SaaSy. And PaaSy. And IaaSy. Dang, They Do the Entire Stack Now

By Ben Kepes

The announcements are coming thick and fast for VMware – once pigeonholed as a provider of core infrastructure tools, they’ve rapidly been building a portfolio hat sees them offer tools at all levels of the stack. Let’s recap on the news of late… SaaS is the future – SlideRocket When

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06/05/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Downstream Effects–The Salesforce Mafia

By Ben Kepes

We often here about the alumni from companies like Google and PayPal, and the startups they’re involved in – indeed it seems that having one of these elite put their name to a startup holds a cachet similar to that given to “by Royal appointment” in the UK. When news

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08/02/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SlideRocket Provides Inspiration for New Users

By Ben Kepes

Sometimes vendors need to do the heavy lifting for users in order to encourage adoption. This is especially so in situations where vendors are trying to disrupt an existing market player. Case in point: SlideRocket, the presentation application that is trying to move sales personnel away from their attachment to

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16/11/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SlideRocket Goes Mobile with HTML5

By Ben Kepes

SlideRocket, the online presentation company that seeks to break organizations out of the PowerPoint gridlock, today released its HTML5 mobile presentation players. I’ve spent lots of time talking with SlideRocket CEO Chuck Dietrich so appreciate what a big deal this actually is – you see one of my concerns around

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05/10/2010 Posted in Business 5 Comments

Sliderocket – Doing for Presentations what Blogging has Done for Media (Trolls Included)

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written many times in the past about Sliderocket – the company that is reinventing presentations for a live, on-demand and insight driven world. Sliderocket is a cutting edge content creation tool, a useful asset store, and an analytics driven delivery channel. It’s this very breadth of functionality that has

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26/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 4 Comments

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, what were you thinking?

By Ben Kepes

I like Sarah Lacy, I kind of felt for her when she was torn apart for her interview of Facebook founder mark Zuckerberg last year. True she came across that time as something of a sycophant – but she didn’t deserve the evisceration that she got. But then in my

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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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