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  • Cloud Financials on the Up and Up

    August 1, 2013

    Business
    Business, Diversity Limited, intacct, netsuite, rod drury, SAP AG, service, Software as a Service, Xero, zach nelson
     

    For a long time the traditional financial vendors dismissed the cloud upstarts as little more than amateur providers that caused no challenge to their own market share – in their mind “real” businesses would still use the rock solid…

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  • Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

    February 4, 2013

    Business
    Ben Kepes, Chief financial officer, cloudability, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, Mat Ellis, Tyler Sloat, zuora
     

    Recently, I moderated a CloudU roundtable that continued an ongoing theme of mine –overcoming the hurdles to greater cloud adoption. In this case we looked deeply at the cloud cost area. This is a really important problem space to…

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  • The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators, Part Two

    January 11, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, Application programming interface, Cloud Foundry, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, OpenStack, Platform as a service, RightScale
     

    A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take…

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  • Actual Cloud – The One To Chose

    October 31, 2012

    Business
    Ben Kepes, cloud computing, Diversity Limited, Las Vegas, Mark Thiele, Om Malik, Organization, 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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  • Barriers To Entry – Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

    October 19, 2012

    Business
    Ben Kepes, Chief financial officer, cloud computing, cloudability, cloudcomputing, Company, Diversity Limited, education, Tyler Sloat, zuora
     

    A theme I’ve been exploring over the past year or so has been the barriers to cloud adoption. Time spent with organizations using cloud has shown me just how valuable a move to the cloud can be – in…

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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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  • Diversity Analysis Becomes Diversity Limited–What’s In a Name?

    September 4, 2012

    Business
    Business, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, Krishnan Subramanian, Organization, Rishidot Research, techcrunch, Technology
     

    For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how best to describe what I “do”. I run Diversity, a pretty diverse (hence the name) operation which covers a bunch of different things – I spend time evangelizing about Cloud Computing,…

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  • A Conversation on Open Cloud–Google+ Hangout

    August 31, 2012

    Business
    CloudOpen, Diversity Limited, Jonathan Bryce, Krishnan Subramanian, opensource, OpenStack, Rackspace Cloud, YouTube
     

    The discussion around open versus closed in the cloud is reaching fever pitch but what does it all mean? Many people have but the loosest understanding of what open cloud means and the differences between open source, open clouds…

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  • Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps

    December 7, 2009

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    Diversity Limited, gmail, google, Google Account, Google apps, Google Reader, New Zealand, WYSIWYG
     

    I was sitting down for a pleasant morning coffee with the boys from WaveAdept, a New Zealand based company that, among other things, is a reseller for Google apps. Our discussion got on to the barriers to adoption for…

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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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