Tag Archives: Software as a Service

January 3, 2012 Posted in Business 3 Comments

The Path to the Cloud is Paved…. With Jagged Rocks…

By Ben Kepes

It’s always interesting to watch companies looking to move from their “traditional” approach of software delivery to living in the cloud. One company I’ve had a first hand glimpse of making that shift is MYOB (see disclosure). In its home market of Australia and New Zealand, MYOB is facing a

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December 20, 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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December 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

SnapLogic Releases its take on Master Data Management

By Ben Kepes

Last week I moderated a panel at CloudBeat looking at application integration and whether standalone applications could successfully be integrated to meet the common data requirements of the enterprise. There were a few different perspectives on the panel but one thing everyone was in agreement about was that the meaning

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December 2, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Cloudology–All That is Bad About IT

By Ben Kepes

I haven’t got a lifetime’s experience in IT. Rather than an impediment in my career however, I’ve found that having come from a varied background has given me a degree of perspective that perhaps some of my lifers don’t enjoy. Case in point – this Cloudology diagram that Simon Wardley

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November 21, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

SaaS Accounting Roundup

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been travelling for the past couple of weeks and haven’t kept up to date with news from the SaaS accounting companies that I usually watch closely. Here’s a summary of stuff that’s happened of late. Quick general disclosure though, I have consulted to a number of the companies below

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November 18, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Wave Goes Payroll

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about Wave Accounting, a vendor that is hoping to turn SMB accounting software on its head by delivering a product at a zero price point and monetizing through the smart utilization of aggregate data. The jury is out as to SMBs appetite for their data being used,

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October 26, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written

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October 25, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Uptime Offers Monitoring and Capacity Planning for VMware

By Ben Kepes

As we move into a world where organizations make more and more usage of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, providers that offer those same organizations tools to ensure the performance of those resources will become more and more important. Into that role steps uptime software, an existing player in the IT systems

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October 13, 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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October 10, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Totango Powers SaaS Vendor Insights

By Ben Kepes

Recently I’ve been doing a fair amount of advisory work with SaaS startups that are just taking their first tentative steps to market. I’ve sat in meetings at length trying to drill into sales cycles and pricing strategies and it often seems that organizations are flying a little blind without

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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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