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  • Chrome rounds out Google’s platform plays

    September 9, 2008

    Business
    Adblock, Android, Browser, Chrome, google, Microsoft, Nick Carr, Platform, tim o'reilly, unreasonablemen.net
     

    A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A year or so ago I went to a Salesforce.com event in which they trotted out a Google Apps exec to support their no software message.  The guy (I forget his name) was delayed…

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  • I won’t be using Chrome.

    September 5, 2008

    Business
    Ben Kepes, Chrome, google, privacy, Read Write Web, unreasonablemen.net
     

    A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net A couple of reasons. Firstly unlike Firefox and Safari and of course the corporate supported IE, it doesn’t seem to get past the companies proxy server.  Second, and most importantly to me I’m not…

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  • People, you’ve only got yourselves to blame.

    July 8, 2008

    Business
    iPhone pricing, unreasonablemen.net, Vodafone NZ
     

    A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net Vodafone NZ’s iPhone pricing has become so topical we even made some US news wires…well done but I’m sorry you only have yourselves to blame… I told a couple of you repeatedly that…

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  • Can Google go Enterprise?

    July 2, 2008

    SaaS
    google, Microsoft, Om Malik, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, unreasonablemen.net
     

    A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net There’s a growing opinion that the answer to that is no. Om Malik got stuck into Gmail last week. How is one supposed to run a business on such an unreliable platform? The…

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  • Where incumbents go wrong

    May 5, 2008

    Business
    nzwc, SaaS, SAP, Seibel, unreasonablemen.net
     

    A guest post from the unreasonablemen.net I saw this from Ovum analysing SAP’s Q1 financials. There are a couple of take outs from this that really struck me with respect to SaaS and incumbent business models. 1) The company…

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  • It was never about competition

    April 7, 2008

    Business
    FTTN, llu, Stuff, The Line, unreasonablemen.net
     

    In case you were wondering. The Labour government has zero interest in improving the broadband situation in this country. This report on the line just shows that the whole operational separation is a political exercise. The reports here were…

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  • A grand vision…

    March 18, 2008

    Business, Cleantech, Economic Development, Society, Strategy
    biofuels, economies, NZ herald, nzwc, unreasonablemen.net
     

    This isn’t my normal topic, but I can’t resist. I’ve secretly always harbored a dream that NZ might really make something of itself. Do what Germany & Japan did post WWII & Ireland have done recently & recreate their…

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  • Microsoft’s picture of a unified future…

    March 11, 2008

    Business
    Future, Microsoft, SaaS, unified Communications, unreasonablemen.net
     

    {this is a mirror post of unreasonablemen.net} And no it has nothing to do with Vista…. BUT, it does have everything to do with Microsoft Mesh and MS’s S+S strategy. Gianpaolo from the development team outlines a simple S+S…

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  • Scale Benefits in Action

    March 3, 2008

    SaaS
    nzwc, SaaS profitability, Salesforce.com, Smoothspan, unreasonablemen.net
     

    I’ve been thinking a bit more about SaaS. & scale. One of the assertions I made in my previous post was that companies that achieve scale get more profit. I wrote a piece previously on SaaS provider profitability in…

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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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