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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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  • 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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  • This one’s straight from the “what the..” category

    March 13, 2008

    Business
    Broadband in NZ, nzwc, Telecom, unreasonablmen
     

    From computerworld this morning Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds has joined the board of XConnect Global Networks, which provides VoIP and IP-based services From the Xconnect website XConnect’s award winning services enable over 400 VoIP service providers and carriers…

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  • Is the collaboration war just Google v Microsoft?

    March 10, 2008

    SaaS
    Collaboration, IBM, Microsoft, nzwc, SaaS, Saugatuck, unreasonabmen.net
     

    This is a mirror post of my own blog unreasonablemen.net Pop quiz. Who is the second largest software company in the world? Who is the second largest provider of on-premise email & collaboration software?   The answer to both…

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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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  • The impact of Scale and Economics on SaaS and broadband

    February 25, 2008

    SaaS
    Broadband in NZ, nzwc, Pricing, SaaS, Scale
     

    NOTE: this is a mirror post of my unreasonablemen.net blog. There have been a few posts recently about broadband in NZ, some well thought through, others not so. The crux of this issue is about scale & economics. This…

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  • Some thoughts on SaaS acquisitions

    February 14, 2008

    SaaS
    nzwc, PaaS, SaaS acquisition, SaaS strategy, Salesforce.com, Smoothspan, Unreasonablemen
     

    Note: This is a mirror post from my unreasonablemen blog. Over on Smoothspan, Bob asks the question “when do the SaaS acquisition games begin?”. This got me thinking, about the why, who, how and impact of acquisition on SaaS.…

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  • Anonymity. The web and SaaS.

    February 12, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Society, Web x.0
    Fake Steve Jobs, nzwc, SaaS, Steve Borsch, Unreasonablemen, Web Anonyity
     

    Note: This is a mirror post from my unreasonablemen blog. Ben Kepes and I recently locked horns over this topic. As you can tell I like having anonymity on the web. There are various reasons for this, but my…

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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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