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  • Salesforce and Core Transactions – Moving Inside from the Edge

    July 8, 2013

    Business
    benioff, ExactTarget, marketing, salesforce, Salesforce.com, SAP AG, Workday, zach nelson
     

    Big news a few weeks ago was the acquisition of ExactTarget by Salesforce at an eye watering $2.5B valuation. Enough people have opined on that deal already  – for a good summary check out this Diginomica post. Less well…

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  • A Big Week for Oracle – Ellison Yet Again Proves He’s a Master Strategist

    June 26, 2013

    Business
    larry ellison, Microsoft, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, salesforce, Salesforce.com, Workday
     

    So… What to make of all this. In the space of a week we have Oracle announcing deep partnerships with Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce. In the case of NetSuite and Salesforce the deal sees those two cloud vendors commit…

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  • Workday Launches Version 18 – Quick Analysis

    November 5, 2012

    Business
    human resources, linkedin, Performance management, salesforce, SAP AG, Software as a Service, Workday, Workday 18
     

    At the Workday Rising event being held in Las Vegas this week, Workday announced the latest version of its product, on top of which they held an analyst/influcner day that I was following remotely. I’ve got a few thoughts…

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  • Looking Forward to DreamForce 2012

    September 11, 2012

    Business
    Aneel Bhusri, benioff, Heroku, Rypple, Salesforce.com, VMware, work.com, Workday
     

    The annual Salesforce extravaganza DreamForce is just around the corner (disclosure, I’ll be attending DreamForce and Salesforce will be covering my T&E account) and with it comes my annual look forward and prediction of what is to come. For…

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  • FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions

    September 11, 2012

    Business
    Customer relationship management, Customer support, Force.Com, netsuite, Salesforce.com, Service Cloud, Workday, zuora
     

    Nicely timed to coincide with next week’s DreamForce conference comes the summer 2012 release from FinancialForce, the cloud accounting company that is both part owned by Salesforce, and built upon the force.com platform. While product announcements tend to be…

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  • Zuora Partners With a Host of Mid Market Financial Vendors

    May 14, 2012

    Business
    FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite, Subscription business model, Tien Tzuo, vindicia, Workday, zuora
     

    In my extensive writing around the subscription billing space, I have often noted that it is a very polarized sector of our industry with a handful of well funded companies providing services for large organizations – Zuora, Vindicia and…

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  • DreamForce 2011–A Look Back

    September 6, 2011

    Business
    #df11, cloud computing, concur, Heroku, infor, netsuite, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, wokday, Workday
     

    Having just returned from my trip to the US for DreamForce, I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on the news (see here and here) from the event. I wanted to write up  post that takes a more…

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  • Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday

    September 1, 2011

    Business
    FinancialForce.com, Force.Com, Heroku, netsuite, Platform as a service, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, VMforce, Workday
     

    Update – Both Infor and Concur have similar deals announcing today as well – details to come Update #2 – I spent time with Workday during the event to get a deeper understanding of what the force.com part of…

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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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