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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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Fairfax Selling Remaining TradeMe Shares–My Two Cents

CCH Acquires Acclipse Limited–Accounting Vertical Gets Converged

Cloud Migration – The Pain And The Opportunity

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

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

Rolling out the Cloud to Australasia