Tag Archives: user interface

30/09/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Bank Simple–Not Traditional Banking But Definitely Not Banking 2.0

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written in the past about Banking 2.0 – a concept that sees the flexibility and openness of web 2.0 bought that most staid of industries, banking. As I see it, like the web we now know, banking 2.0 would involve banks creating APIs that would allow (and yes, after

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02/09/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Convergence–Mobile, Web and Cloud Improve Customer Experience at NZSki

By Ben Kepes

Part of my excitement about cloud is that it seems to me to be one of the factors that is enabling a real change in the way people interact with each other and with organizations. Recently and old-schoolmate of mine (from longer ago than either of us would like to

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15/08/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimbula for Geographically Distributed Clouds

By Ben Kepes

I’ve covered Nimbula previously, the company that is aiming to blend the scale enjoyed by public cloud providers like Amazon with the customization and control that private infrastructure enjoys. Nimbula has royal blood behind is with an executive/founder team of high fliers including the original team behind Amazon EC2. According

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11/07/2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

KashFlow Puts Its Funding to Good Use–New Engineering Project and New COO

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday the news broke that KashFlow has allegedly raised funding of £4 million from its existing 40% shareholder, Lord Young. It’s an interesting funding position – while we don’t know any details about how it is structured – it’s a significant amount of money and will allow KashFlow to scale

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18/08/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT 11 Comments

Does design matter in a UI?

By Ben Kepes

Interesting post over on Dennis’ blog about design. He quotes some peoples perspectives on whether UI is an important attribute for an offering. In relation to enterprise UIs, Natalie Hanson says; For the most part, an EUI doesn’t have to win over its users.  An employee is essentially trapped –

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12/08/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Ten best UIs awarded

By Ben Kepes

With a twitter hat-tip (a twhit maybe) to Stuart for pointing it out, the Neilsen Norman Group has awarded it’s bouquets for the ten best UIs of 2008. Good to see on-demand well represented and great to see our very own Xero take a spot. I use two of the

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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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