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  • Guest post – Death of a cloud provider – 5 practical ways to avoid becoming a SaaS refugee

    August 11, 2014

    Business
    Big data, Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, JSON, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Springpad
     

    A guest post from Paul Muller – Paul Muller leads global strategic marketing within the Software business at HP responsible for building awareness and implementation of best practices across all elements of the IT value chain as well as…

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  • IT: Cost Center or Strategic Enabler?

    August 2, 2013

    Business
    Arab Spring, Business, Business agility, Business transformation, Chief information officer, Commonwealth Bank, Innovation, Middle East
     

    Cross posted from the Salesforce blog As I talk and write about business transformation generally, and IT transformation in particular, I often meet technologists who sit within traditional businesses, frustrated at the lack of progressive attitude towards IT that CIOs often…

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  • Tying Cloud Costs to Return – The Hunt for ROI

    July 2, 2013

    Business
    Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, Organization, Pivot, Return on investment, Silicon Valley, Software as a Service
     

    Cross posted from the Cloudability blog In difficult economic times, every manager within an organization is feeling the pressure to reduce budgets. Given this fact, it is unsurprising that customers are often looking to cloud cost savings as the…

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  • On Centralized File Control – NTP Software Launches Universal File Access

    April 30, 2013

    Business
    BYOD, Chief information officer, Computer file, dropbox, Filesharing, Network Time Protocol, NTP, Solution
     

    The enterprise world is split between those who believe bottom-up approaches to file sharing (as typified by vendors like Box and Dropbox) will be the future of large organizations. On the other hand a number of people point to…

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  • Good Reading–On What an Enterprise REALLY Needs

    February 6, 2013

    Business
    Business, Chief information officer, Enterprise software, google, Market share, Microsoft, Search Engines, Searching
     

    Another chance to share an article that provides an alternative view from one you normally read here – in this case an opinion piece from an enterprise CIO on why he doesn’t believe Google is a credible enterprise vendor.…

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  • Drivers for Cloud Adoption–CIO Research

    December 18, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, Business, Business-to-Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, e-commerce, Software as a Service, Technical support
     

    Interesting survey results just released that indicate cost isn’t the highest factor in cloud adoption (yay – at last people are talking more about non-cost impacts of cloud) – Respondents believe compliance requirements, value and competitive advantage are the…

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  • Private Clouds Must Be Agile

    October 12, 2012

    Business
    Chief information officer, cloud, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Infrastructure, Scalability, Self-service, twitter
     

    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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  • More on the IT Business Boiling Point

    April 19, 2012

    Business
    Appirio, Asia-Pacific, BMC, Chief information officer, cloudcomputing, IBM, Information technology operations, netsuite
     

    Over the last few days I’ve been talking to people about the tension that exists between “traditional” and “next generation” software platforms. The discussions had their genesis in a post I wrote specifically looking at NetSuite and Oracle, but…

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  • Cloud Computing is Changing YOUR Job!

    February 1, 2012

    Business
    Business, CA Technologies, Chief information officer, cloud computing, EMC Corporation, Forbes, management, Strategic management
     

    Excuse the slightly cataclysmic title of this post, but the first post for 2012 in the CloudU notebook series is one which hopefully will get you thinking about your career and the changes it is going to undergo over…

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  • Freemium – A Word of Caution

    April 14, 2010

    Design
    Bob Warfield, Business, Chief information officer, freemium, Freemium Summit, HelpStream, Lincoln Murphy, service
     

    I’ve been harkening back to the good old days recently – the days when real companies made real products for real customers who paid real cold hard cash for said products. Call me old-fashioned but I still see value…

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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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