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Do you really want your IT department to define your application stack?

Do you really want your IT department to define your application stack?

By Maarten Ectors on August 14, 2013

The term “Platform-as-a-Service” or PaaS is gaining widespread popularity. The PaaS promise is that either a hosted solution or a private cloud solution gives your enterprise all you need. You just write an application and post it to the Cloud. “Cloud Magic” will run and scale it for you. There is no lack of competition in […]

Posted in Platforms, Your POV | Tagged app engine, Cloudfoundry, devops, force.com, heroku, juju, openshift, paas, stratos, wso2 | 1 Response

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

By Ben Kepes on January 4, 2013

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and Heroku was creating a real gravity pull for developers and that Salesforce was primed to be […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged CloudComputing, engineyard, force.com, heroku, platform services, salesforce.com, software as a service, Visual Basic | 4 Responses

Netsuite Introduces Billing and Subscription Service

Netsuite Introduces Billing and Subscription Service

By Ben Kepes on October 17, 2012

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference held earlier this year, CEO Zach Nelson announced that the company would begin to provide some billing and subscription functionality into their platform. Billing in the services based world is an immense nightmare, others have delved into intricate detail of the reasons why this is

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged aria, Chief operating officer, force.com, netsuite, Subscription business model, zach nelson, zuora

FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions

FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions

By Ben Kepes on September 11, 2012

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 a little ho-hum, this one is interesting since it comes from

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged customer relationship management, customer support, force.com, netsuite, salesforce.com, Service cloud, workday, zuora

Salesforce Broadens Both Down and Outwards with Rypple and Site.com

Salesforce Broadens Both Down and Outwards with Rypple and Site.com

By Ben Kepes on March 15, 2012

I’m not in San Francisco for Salesforce’s CloudForce event, I decided to come directly home after SXSW instead. Rather I’m watching the live stream – while the beer and party may only be virtual, the stream fidelity is pretty good otherwise. Anyway – two big announcements today, the full integration of Rypple and the launch of […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged chatter, facebook, force.com, rypple, salesforce chatter, salesforce.com, SAP AG, Sites.com, successfactors

Will “Mad Men” Drive the Social Enterprise?

Will “Mad Men” Drive the Social Enterprise?

By John Taschek on September 15, 2011

Note this is a special guest post from industry authority Bruce Richardson. His blog can be found at http://stellwagenresearch.blogspot.com/. Bruce has a 30-year career in high-tech, harkening back to the days in which he worked alongside George Colony (founder and CEO of Forrester), Frank Gens (Chief Research Officer of IDC),…

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Marketing, Trends & Concepts | Tagged @jtaschek, Benioff, Bruce Richardson, chatter, cloud, dreamforce, force.com, hospitals, infor, marc benioff, radian6, salesforce, salesforce.com, toyota, Weblogs, zipcar

Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday

Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday

By Ben Kepes on September 2, 2011

Update – Both Infor and Concur announced similar deals  – 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 this deal actually means. Essentially Workday will use force.com for customers who wish to make advanced customizations on their Workday […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #df11, dreamforce11, FinancialForce.com, force.com, heroku, netsuite, platform as a service, salesforce chatter, salesforce.com, vmforce, workday | 1 Response

VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry - An Analysis

VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 12, 2011

VMware (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Cloud Foundry, its Open Platform as a Service product, at a special event in Palo Alto. Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source. More interestingly, it can run on your laptop or a single server or 1000s of VMs or, even, hundreds of dedicated servers. Apart […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, cloud foundry, Cloudfoundry, engine yard, federated clouds, federation, force.com, google app engine, insights, java, node.js, open source, opensource, paas, paasfuture, rails, salesforce.com, springsource, vmware | 16 Responses

iPad In The Enterprises: ServiceMax Announces Field-Service iPad App

iPad In The Enterprises: ServiceMax Announces Field-Service iPad App

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 23, 2010

I have been covering the iPad in the enterprise meme here at CloudAve and many others are regularly talking about how iPad is changing the business landscape. Clearly, the use of iPad is not a fad. From sales teams to IT admins, enterprises of all sizes are finding iPad to be very convenient, even increasing […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged chatter, field techs, force.com, ipad, ipad-enterprise, iPad4B, salesforce, salesforce.com, servicemax | 3 Responses

Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

By Ben Kepes on June 22, 2010

I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustrating. Just look at his quote about Chatter: Salesforce Chatter is the […]

Posted in Enterprise, Product reviews | Tagged chatter, force.com, marc benioff, salesforce.com | 1 Response

EngineYard Goes Upmarket with its Ruby PaaS

EngineYard Goes Upmarket with its Ruby PaaS

By Ben Kepes on June 3, 2010

Just the other day Krish posted about the new partnership between Apigee and Heroku the Ruby PaaS player. Hot on the heels of that announcement comes news that EngineYard are partnering with TerreMark to provide a more enterprise class Ruby PaaS. First some background – EngineYard already has AppCloud, a mid level Ruby PaaS offering […]

Posted in Design | Tagged appcloud, azure, engineyard, force.com, heroku, rails, xcloud | 1 Response

Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)

Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)

By Ben Kepes on May 26, 2010

A month or so ago I sat in a room with a small group of bloggers discussing the enterprise software space with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and one sentence he said stuck in my mind: The same was is playing out in this space all over again. And just like last time, the suite’s will […]

Posted in Enterprise, Strategy | Tagged best of breed, erp, force.com, google, intuit, netsuite, platform, salesforce, suite

The Skinny on Google's New SMB Application Marketplace

The Skinny on Google's New SMB Application Marketplace

By Ben Kepes on March 9, 2010

Last week I speculated to some impending announcements from Google about application stores specifically tailored to the small and medium business market. Well, readers didn’t have to wait long, Google has just launched what is essentially an SMB application marketplace – A place where (they hope) customers will discover, purchase and deploy integrated third party […]

Posted in Small business | Tagged app store, force.com, gam, google, intuit, marketplace, partner platform, smb, sme | 3 Responses

Google Launches Apps Marketplace

Google Launches Apps Marketplace

By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010

I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace.  The site is live now, feel free to browse.  The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners. The new Marketplace […]

Posted in Analysis, Product reviews, Small business | Tagged appexchange, CRM, echosign, echosystem, erp, force.com, freshbooks, gam, google, google apps, google apps marketplace, marketplace, netsuite, partners, saas, salesforce.com, smb, sme, zoho | 1 Response

Salesforce shows the future of enterprise collaboration - but have they got the branding right?

Salesforce shows the future of enterprise collaboration – but have they got the branding right?

By David Terrar on January 7, 2010

A month ago on Monday 7 December I was sitting in the London version of the CloudForce2 Partner Summit, and then stricken by a virus overnight, I watched Marc Benioff livestreamed for the 2 hours and 15 minutes of his keynote in the general customer session on the following day.   It sounds like he did […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged chatter, collaboration, CRM, Enterprise, Esme, financialforce, force.com, netsuite, on-demand, saas, salesforce.com, web 2.0 | 2 Responses

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