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  • Salesforce and Core Transactions – Moving Inside from the Edge

    July 8, 2013

    Business
    benioff, ExactTarget, marketing, salesforce, Salesforce.com, SAP AG, Workday, zach nelson
     

    Big news a few weeks ago was the acquisition of ExactTarget by Salesforce at an eye watering $2.5B valuation. Enough people have opined on that deal already  – for a good summary check out this Diginomica post. Less well…

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  • Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown

    September 17, 2012

    Business
    Aaron Levie, Asia, benioff, dropbox, salesforce, Salesforce.com, TechCrunch Disrupt, Zero–sum game
     

    At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff leaked his own company’s news of a new content collaboration and sharing service dubbed ChatterBox. I’ve actually known about the product for a month or so, my sources who told…

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  • Looking Forward to DreamForce 2012

    September 11, 2012

    Business
    Aneel Bhusri, benioff, Heroku, Rypple, Salesforce.com, VMware, work.com, Workday
     

    The annual Salesforce extravaganza DreamForce is just around the corner (disclosure, I’ll be attending DreamForce and Salesforce will be covering my T&E account) and with it comes my annual look forward and prediction of what is to come. For…

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  • The Social Revolution

    November 16, 2011

    Business
    benioff, Facebook, KLM, salesforce, Social enterprise, social media, Social revolution, Wall Street
     

    I generally don’t go in for the hand waving around social for business. While I’m a proponent of social, I like to see proof before I announce the revolution. There’s nothing I hate more than the social media gurus…

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  • On Larry, and Marc, and All Publicity being Good Publicity

    October 4, 2011

    Business
    #OOW11, benioff, Ellison, larry ellison, oracle, Salesforce.com, San Francisco, twitter
     

    So I’ve been mentioning it on Twitter all afternoon, after being one of the first to pick up on the announcement from Marc Benioff that Oracle had reneged on its offer for a keynote position at Oracle’s OpenWorld event…

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  • Benioff on the future…

    June 21, 2008

    Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy
    benioff, salesforce, scoble
     

    Robert Scoble interviewed salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff in a broad ranging discussion about the future of applications and platforms. It’s an interesting and insightful interview. Key takeouts and themes were; It’s not about the browser, it’s about…

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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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