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  • Some Xero Analysis

    July 4, 2011

    Business
    FreeAgent Central, intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, kashflow, MYOB, quickbooks, rod drury, sage, SMB, sme, Software as a Service, Xero
     

    A month or so ago I was asked to provide some comment for the Natonal Business Review to go with Xero’s full year financial report. I was positive but with reservations and comments. In response to my comments, Xero…

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  • Controlling (and Identifying) Cloud Spend with Cloudability

    June 30, 2011

    Business
    cfo, cloud computing, cloudability, enterprise, iaas, LaunchPad, Monitoring, SaaS, SMB
     

    One of the exciting companies I met with at the recent Structure Conference was Cloudability – in fact a number of commentators (well, myself and Paul Miller anyway) were a little shocked at the relatively poor ranking that the…

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  • Charity Begins At Home – Lending for Small Business

    June 17, 2009

    Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Society
    kiva, microfinance, SMB, sme
     

    Image via Wikipedia Kiva is a US based peer-to-peer lending system that allows people to temporarily loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. Kiva acts as the agent hosting profiles of entrepreneurs for lenders to access, collecting the…

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  • “Word of Mouse” will drive adoption of SaaS

    February 12, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Web x.0
    Dell, SaaS, SMB, Web 2.0
     

    Recently, I attended the Small Business Summit hosted in Times Square, New York. The catchphrase of the summit was ‘Technology: Its time to reinvent your business’ The key note speaker was Karen Quintos of Dell Inc, VP of Marketing…

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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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