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  • Fairfax Selling Remaining TradeMe Shares–My Two Cents

    December 16, 2012

    Business
    Apple, Australasia, Business, Fairfax, IBM, New Zealand, Sam Morgan, trademe
     

    Big news in Australasia this weekend was the planned sale of the remaining 51% that Fairfax still holds in TradeMe. Lance Wiggs has been doing the rounds of the media outlets with the view that the move is “absolutely…

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  • CCH Acquires Acclipse Limited–Accounting Vertical Gets Converged

    July 12, 2012

    Business
    acclipse, Australasia, CCH, google, MYOB, New Zealand, Practice Management, Wolter Kluwer
     

    Big news in the accounting space with the announcement that CCH, a division of the international group Wolters Kluwer is acquiring software vendor Acclipse. Acclipse sells practice management software under the iFirm brand, and announced a few months ago…

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  • Cloud Migration – The Pain And The Opportunity

    May 29, 2012

    Business
    2012 Cisco Global Cloud Networking Survey, Australasia, Business, cisco, cloud computing, e-commerce, ProQuest
     

    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 you can…

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

    January 3, 2012

    Business
    Australasia, Business, cloud computing, MYOB, New Zealand, Software as a Service, Xero
     

    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…

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  • On the Sale of MYOB Again. Bain’s Strategy–Acquisition of Australasian Cloud Players?

    August 22, 2011

    Business
    acclipse, Australasia, Bain Capital, MYOB, Private equity, SaaSu, Xero
     

    I’ve been commenting over the past week or so about the long saga around the sale of Australasian accounting vendor MYOB. At the same time other vendors have taken the opportunity to suggest what they believe is happening –…

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  • Rolling out the Cloud to Australasia

    July 22, 2011

    Business
    amazon web services, Australasia, cloud computing, CloudCentral, data center, Equinix, New Zealand
     

    Spending as much time as I do talking about the benefits of cloud computing, it’s sometimes a little frustrating living somewhere that is generally the last place in the world to have access to technological innovations. Case in point…

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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

About Me

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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