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  • Cloud Case Study–BlueWolf

    October 5, 2012

    Business
    AppExchange, Appirio, BlueWolf, cloud computing, openair, psa, quickbooks, Salesforce.com
     

    While at DreamForce recently I took the opportunity to sit down and talk with BlueWolf a business process and strategy consultancy that does a lot of work with mid sized and enterprise customers helping them move their IT to…

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  • Baker Tilly Extends Beyond Accounting–Delivers FinancialForce PSA

    April 13, 2012

    Business
    Appirio, Baker Tilly, Baker Tilly International, financialforce, Jeremy Roche, netsuite, openair, psa, Salesforce.com
     

    The world of the cloud channel is an interesting one – I recently published a whitepaper specifically looking at ways that partners can prosper in a cloudy world where revenue streams are significantly different than in an on-premise world.What…

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  • Acumatica Update

    May 27, 2011

    Business
    acumatica, cloud computing, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, openair, Software as a Service
     

    It’s been six months or so since I spoke with mid-market ERP vendor Acumatica (much more on them here) so I was please to spend some time with them last week getting an update about how they’re going. As…

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  • FinancialForce and Service Resource Planning

    March 14, 2011

    Business
    Appirio, Enterprise resource planning, FinancialForce.com, Force.Com, netsuite, openair, Professional Services Automation, Salesforce.com
     

    When FinancialForce announced the acquisition a few months ago of the Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution created by Appirio – it seemed an obvious fit. FinancialForce is the financial solution of choice on the force.com platform, while a huge…

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  • FinancialForce Acquires Appirio PSA

    December 7, 2010

    Business
    Appirio, FinancialForce.com, netsuite, openair, Salesforce.com
     

    I’ve covered professional services automation (PSA) software previously – NetSuite created some news awhile back when they acquired OpenAir sold it as a module to their ERP offering. This morning FinancialForce is announcing that they have acquired the PSA…

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  • Cloud ERP Adoption Barriers–Functionality or FUD?

    November 3, 2010

    Business
    acumatica, FinancialForce.com, netsuite, openair, Plex Systems
     

    Recently Frank Scavo wrote a great post regarding what he determined was the key success factor for SaaS suites: functional parity. The thesis of Scavo’s argument was that, until cloud vendors provide true functional parity with on-premise solution, a…

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  • FinancialForce Update

    October 27, 2010

    Business
    acumatica, Enterprise resource planning, financialforce, intacct, netsuite, openair, Salesforce.com
     

    I spoke the other day with Jeremy Roche, MD of FinancialForce the accounting application built on top of force.com. Readers will recall that about a year ago Coda2Go, as FinancialForce was called then, was partially acquired by salesforce.com –…

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  • AffinityLive – PSA For Us All

    July 13, 2010

    enterprise, Product reviews, SaaS
    affinitylive, geoff mcqueen, hiive, netsuite, openair, psa
     

    I posted recently about OpenAir, NetSuite’s PSA offering. Hot on the heels of that I talked with Geoff McQueen, founder of Hiive Systems an Australian vendor who is bringing its own PSA solution to market later this year. Geoff…

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  • Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)

    May 26, 2010

    enterprise, Strategy
    Application programming interface, cloudave, netsuite, openair, quickbooks, SnapLogic, Software as a Service, zach nelson
     

    A month or so ago I sat in a room with a small group of bloggers discussing the enterprise software space with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and one sentence he said stuck in my mind: The same was is…

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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

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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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