Ben Kepes

Director at Diversity Ltd

Ben’s background is in business in varied industries from manufacturing to property to technology. He’s also gone down a fork in the road to build a significant online presence - He’s a blogger and evangelist for cloud computing generally, and software as a service specifically - most notably as Editor of CloudAve.com, the preeminent location for Cloud Computing commentary. He’s an advisor to early stage software companies and a strong advocate for software, having a user-centric focus. His particular area of interest is accounting and business process software. He writes for physical publications, blogs and consults from a small farm in rural North Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Paper: Questions to Ask Your Cloud Vendor PDF
This report articulates a number of questions to ask when evaluating cloud applications. These questions fall into several distinct groupings, including: Business Requirements, Reliability, Availability, Upgrades, Maintenance and Outages, Security, Privacy, Data Ownership, Integration, and Customization questions. http://www.cloudave.com/link/new-whitepaper-questions-to-ask-your-cloud-vendor?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CloudAve+%28CloudAve%29


Paper: 10 Questions You Need to Ask a Collaboration Vendor PDF
In just the last few years, the enterprise collaboration software market has become one of the most crowded areas in IT. It seems as though new vendors are appearing on a weekly basis while traditional software vendors are working feverishly to retrofit their legacy offerings by introducing new collaboration add-ons. Further clouding the issue are the various delivery models available to customers today - on-premise, on-demand and cloud-based options are available. This combination of a multitude of vendors and delivery models has created a confusing landscape, where messaging collision has become the rule, not the exception. This primer is intended to help those organizations researching enterprise collaboration by arming them with the most important questions to ask the collaboration vendors they are evaluating, in hopes of helping them make buying decisions based on empirical evidence, rather than flashy positioning and messaging.


Article: On Pricing, Demand and Critical Mass
An overview of recent shifts and pricing adjustments for SaaS vendors in a competitive landscape.


Article: Where is your Data?
Location of cloud data is important


Article: Please Don't Gild the Lily
The move to cloud email is a great thing but the reality here is that this is an email application not some flash new enterprise suite.


Article: Cloud-Based Email - Bringing in the Savings, and the Value
A look at the benefits that various cloud email providers can bring to their customers and a discussion on the relevance of hosted email for large and small organizations and some of the problems people have identified.


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