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  • Moving To The Cloud – Internal Business Considerations

    June 29, 2012

    Business
    Application service provider, Business, cloudcomputing, Google apps, Organization
     

    CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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  • On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?

    March 26, 2012

    Business
    Application service provider, Business, cloud computing, Duane Jackson, kashflow, Services, Xero
     

    Recently KashFlow CEO Duane Jackson made the decision to reduce the trial periods offered on his product from 60 days down to 14. In blogging about this change, Jackson explained the decision saying; We analysed our trial data and…

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  • Totango Powers SaaS Vendor Insights

    October 10, 2011

    Business
    Application service provider, Business, Customer relationship management, Engine Yard, Software as a Service, Totango
     

    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…

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  • What Does “Functionally Complete” Really Mean?

    September 20, 2011

    Business, Microsoft Word
    Application service provider, cloud computing, google docs, Software as a Service
     

    Last week I wrote about some issues that were raised at a recent CloudCamp I ran in Australia. Last week I looked at the contention (of some) that Software as a Service (SaaS) is no more than the Application Service Provider (ASP) approach of the nineties, albeit with a different name. This week I want to […]

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  • ASP Isn’t SaaS. Is It?

    September 13, 2011

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    Application programming interface, Application service provider, cloudcamp, Software as a Service, zendesk
     

    A month or so ago I was running a CloudCamp in Australia. As always it was a great event but was made more so by a fascinating exchange between two very different people. On the one hand was Michael Folmer-Hansen from SaaS customer support vendor Zendesk, who was attending his first CloudCamp after Zendesk had […]

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  • Cloud ERP for Manufacturing

    February 17, 2011

    Business
    Application service provider, BBD, Businessbydesign, Enterprise resource planning, Epicor, infor, netsuite, plex, SAP, Software as a Service
     

    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…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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