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A OneLogin Update

May 16, 2012

Business

google, Google Apps Marketplace, Identity management, Joomla, OneLogin, Security Assertion Markup Language, Single Sign, Steelcase

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months identifying some underlying themes within the cloud space, and some corresponding big opportunities which dropout of those themes. One bucket of opportunities that I’m excited about is services…

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The Google Apps Marketplace–Chances of Survival

January 9, 2012

Business

AppExchange, Apps, google, Google apps, Google Apps Marketplace, Intuit Partner Platform, Microsoft, netsuite

Over on his blog, VC Brad Feld posted about the experience of three of his portfolio companies being part of the Google Apps Marketplace – Spanning, Yesware and Attachments are all built on top of Google Apps and Feld…

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Okta Focuses on Application Discovery and Self-Service

December 15, 2011

Business

Authentication, cloud computing, Google Apps Marketplace, Okta, Single sign-on, SSO, Todd McKinnon

Okta (more coverage here) is this morning announcing a new self-service capability built upon its own Okta Application Network,a pre-integrated package of multiple business and consumer applications in one hit. The idea here is that enterprise IT organizations will…

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Cloud Sherpas Acquires WaveAdept

July 3, 2011

Business

Cloud Sherpas, google, Google Apps Marketplace, New Zealand, Software as a Service, WaveAdept

Now that someone with lower respect for embargoes has broken the news, there’s nothing stopping me from talking about the latest acquisition for US based Google Apps reseller Cloud Sherpas. Cloud Sherpas is a company I’ve written about before,…

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Integration is Great Xero. What of Those Security Issues Though?

June 14, 2011

Business

google, Google Apps Marketplace, rod drury, Single sign-on, Xero

A year ago I remarked upon Xero’s entry to the Google apps marketplace congratulating Xero for being part of the Google initiative but questioning why the integration wasn’t deeper. As I said at the time; I clicked the link…

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Cloud Sherpas Update

May 9, 2011

Business

Apps, Cloud Sherpas, google, Google Apps Marketplace

I’ve written before about Cloud Sherpas the company that has built an advanced administrator toolset for Google Apps. originally the toolset was an add-on to their own Google Apps reseller business, it seems to have grown well beyond that.…

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Friends Helping Friends–Google Joins The Small Business Web

March 16, 2011

Business

BatchBlue, cloud computing, freshbooks, google, Google Apps Marketplace, mailchimp, Small business, Small Business Web

I’m sitting in a panel at SXSW watching Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead, Google Enterprise question a select group of representatives from companies creating applications for SMBs. The topic of this panel is Friends with Business Benefits: How…

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Salesforce, Seesmic and ManyMoon–Good Move or Kool Aide Consumption?

February 10, 2011

Business

dimdim, google, Google Apps Marketplace, groupswim, Loïc Le Meur, Manymoon, Salesforce.com, seesmic

A few days ago salesforce.com announced that it had acquired social productivity application ManyMoon. Surprisingly the blogosphere remained relatively silent about the deal beyond a post by Klint who referenced Sameer Patel saying; With its strong project facilitation focus,…

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Brightpearl goes Google Marketplace – Now Available to US Customers

October 12, 2010

Business

brightpearl, Enterprise resource planning, google, Google Apps Marketplace

Brightpearl, formerly called Pearl – is the little cloud ERP vendor that should really be way bigger than it is. As I’ve said previously; I’ve always thought of it as the little engine that could, with a team of…

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