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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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  • Media Relations is an Ongoing Process. Sage Seems to Forget That.

    May 10, 2010

    marketing, Strategy
    cloud computing, Duane Jackson, kashflow, Paul Walker, Phil Wainewright, sage, Sage Group, service
     

    A year ago I wrote a post congratulating Sage on an increase in communications they’d had with me. As I said at the time: So I give Sage significant kudos for reaching out and contacting some of us, but…

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  • Appirio Guest Post

    April 27, 2010

    Design
    Appirio, Application programming interface, cloudcomputing, Facebook, iPad, Platform as a service, Quality policy, service
     

    Over on the Appirio blog they’re running a series getting cloud perspectives from a bunch of different industry players. Appirio approached me with a bunch of questions to answer, I thought I’d repost those questions (and my answers) here.…

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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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  • SaaS, Accounting, Microsoft Money and Hyperbole.

    November 30, 2009

    Uncategorized
    freshbooks, intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, kashflow, Microsoft, sage, service, Web application
     

    Over on Accounting Web, a right royal stoush was started when Aqilla’s Hugh Scantlebury wrote an op ed piece opining what the withdrawal of Microsoft’s Office Accounting product means and, more importantly, what is behind the move. For those…

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  • Why Banking is Broken, A BNZ Rant (Part two)

    September 14, 2009

    Business, My businesses, New Zealand, Strategy
    bnz, business banking, service, support
     

    I posted last week about a banking situation that had me all hot under the collar. In an effort to continue naming and shaming (and hopefully drive improvements in the process), here is part two. This morning I received…

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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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