Michael Baum, the co-founder and former CEO of Splunk, has made millions from Big Data. Splunk debuted last week to a stellar IPO as the company cashed in on growing market demand and interest in leveraging Big Data. Now a…
IBM reported first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday, stating revenue of $24.7 billion, a 1 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was $3.1 billion, up 9 percent from the first quarter of 2011. Looking ahead, IBM is more optimistic now…
The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to be synonymous with databases too. SAP today announced a series of initiatives that will further enable its database efforts, including the in-memory…
Modern Big Data application architectures are all about distributed development and resources. When it comes to running apps, those distributed architectures also have multiple points of potential failure that need to be monitored for optimum efficiency and uptime. One solution…
Of all the applications and hardware Oracle has, the software giant is still perhaps best known for its namesake database. One of the best places to run the Oracle Database is on Linux and particularly Oracle Linux. Yet until this…
Though some observers had worried Oracle was in trouble after some disappointing second quarter results, Oracle stormed back in the third quarter to prove its naysayers wrong. Oracle reported its third quarter fiscal 2012 financial results late Tuesday, reporting revenues…
Open source business intelligence and analytics vendor Pentaho has built a business around delivering standalone enterprise solutions. It also now has growing business embedding its solutions into OEM products. To help accelerate the adoption and integration of Pentaho into third…
The cloud is big business for Salesforce.com. Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2012 results late Thursday showing double digit revenue growth coming from clients both big and small. For the fourth quarter, Salesforce reported revenue of…
Enterprises can look at their data in many different ways. One of them is by using the open source R statistical programming language, which is now a fully supported technology on Oracle Database 11g. The support for R comes in…
Open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho is bringing Big Data transformation capabilities into the open source fold. Pentaho announced today the new Kettle 4.3 release, which includes new capabilities for transforming and working with Big Data. Kettle is an Extract,…
At one point or another, every user has struggled with a help button to try and figure out how to get their applications and desktops to do what they need it to do. A new idea from Ubuntu Linux vendor…
Big Data startup Cloudera is getting a big vote of confidence from Oracle. Oracle today announced the availability of the Oracle Big Data Appliance, including Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop (CDH). Oracle first announced the Big Data engineered system at its OpenWorld conference…
In the world of Big Data, Hadoop is the big thing. Yet even though Hadoop has become the defining application of the Big Data world, until today it had not officially attained 1.0 status. The Apache Software Foundation today officially…
Oracle is continuing to grow both its software and its hardware business, though not quite as much as it had originally forecast. Oracle (ORCL: NASDAQ) reported second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings after the close of market on Tuesday. Revenues came…
Open source business intelligence provider JasperSoft is among the many software vendors looking to help companies derive value from Big Data information. The new JasperSoft 4.5 release isn’t just about connecting to Big Data, it’s about analyzing the data quickly. Mike…
The move towards Big Data and NoSQL is being fuelled by big money, as investors bet on the next big thing in technology. One of those venture capitalists is Frank Artale, a partner with Ignition Partners and an investor in…
Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho is advancing its capabilities with new in-memory features. The Pentaho Business Analytics 4.1 release provides advanced in-memory features that enable enterprises to leverage the benefits of in-memory as well as disk-based analysis. “Most…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is rolling out a new set of SmartCloud services and software, providing new opportunities for enterprises to move their applications to a cloud model. The new offerings include the debut of SmartCloud Enterprise 2.0, which is a…
Data is at the root of good decision making, but how do you get the right data in the right place to make those decisions? IBM (NYSE:IBM) is enhancing its software portfolio with new capabilities for analytics and business intelligence.…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is now a cloud vendor. The Oracle Public Cloud was officially announced at OpenWorld, providing users with the opportunity to run Oracle Fusion Apps, Middleware, Database and Java on an Oracle managed and operated cloud infrastructure. Oracle…
Business analytics at the speed of thought? That’s the pitch that Oracle CEO Larry Ellision made at the Oracle OpenWorld conference with the announcement of the new Exalytics appliance. Exalytics is an in-memory database appliance that leverages parallelism and DRAM…
Jaspersoft is expanding its business intelligence software for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The Jaspersoft 4.2 release also provides an open source software development kit to help build mobile BI apps. “The open source mobile SDK is for embedded apps,” Jim…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is continuing to grow its software business while moving away from commodity x86 hardware. Oracle reported first quarter fiscal 2012 revenues of $8.4 billion, a 12 percent year-over-year increase. A key part of Oracle’s quarterly growth was…
There is now a new choice for those looking to deploying SAP applications on Linux. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) today announced that its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) operating system platform has now been certified for SAP (NYSE: SAP).…
How secure is SAP (NYSE: SAP)? That’s a question that security researcher Alexander Polyakov set out to answer during a session at the Black Hat security conference last week. Polyakov is the CTO of security firm ERPscan, with a specific…
Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) software business remained strong in its most recent quarter, but hardware sales came in shy of Wall Street estimates. Oracle reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2011 earnings late Thursday, with revenues of $10.8 billion, a 13 percent…
Business intelligence (BI) software is all about deriving value from data. It’s a goal that commercial open source BI vendor Pentaho is aiming to expand upon with the Pentaho BI 4 Enterprise Edition release this week. The Pentatho BI 4…
Red Hat and SAP are teaming up with new integrated support for SAP customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The new support system will help streamline how customers are supported by way of an integrated trouble ticket system. The…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) keeps on getting bigger. The enterprise applications and database giant last night reported third-quarter 2011 revenues of $8.8 billion, a 37 percent year-over-year increase. Net income was $2.2 billion, a 78 percent year-over-year gain. Earnings per share…
Business intelligence (BI) software can provide a wealth of information, though it’s not always easy to build reports and dashboards to make sense of the data. The new Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 3.8 release aims to help, with new…
After three years of development, the open source Drupal 7 content management system debuted earlier this year. Drupal developers aren’t resting on their laurels and are now beginning to plan for Drupal 8. Speaking at that annual DrupalCon conference this…
Novell is enhancing its partnership with SAP with an expanded Linux offering for SAP applications. Josh Dorfman, director of alliance marketing at Novell, told InternetNews.com that the new version of SLES for SAP Applications is based on SLES 11. “Most…
The open source Ruby language is getting a big enterprise boost today with the proposed acquisition of Ruby cloud vendor Heroku by Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) for $212 million in cash. The deal is set to close in Salesforce.com’s fiscal fourth…
Helping enterprises take action based on enterprise data sources is the focus of a new solution from SAP called StreamWork Enterprise Edition. With StreamWork Enterprise edition, SAP (NYSE: SAP) is delivering a collaborative decision-making (CDM) solution that is available in…
LAS VEGAS — For many enterprises, SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) software is mission-critical. But according to Mariano Nunez Di Croce, a security researcher from Argentinean research vendor Onapsis, SAP software is at risk even when users properly follow all of the…
After four months of beta availability and testing, SugarCRM today officially announced the general availability of its Sugar 6 CRM customer relationship management platform. Sugar 6 includes an open source community edition as well as commercially licensed professional and enterprise…
After five years, Sugar’s open source CRM platform remains alive and well, this week debuting a new version that touts a sharper look and new enhancements. The new Sugar 6 release includes a revamped user interface and other tweaks that…
Despite concerns about a potentially weak 2008 for software companies, there’s one sector of the business that continues to draw startups and acquisitions at a brisk pace: business intelligence software. “Business intelligence is no longer a back-office, nice-to-have application,” said…
The multi-billion-dollar market for CRM software is hotly contested by closed source vendors like SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.com among others, all of whom spend tens of millions of dollars marketing their wares. Can open source compete? John Roberts, CEO of…
John Roberts is a man on a mission to change the CRM industry. As the founder and CEO of open source startup SugarCRM, Roberts is competing in an industry with strongly entrenched and well-financed competitors. Roberts officially launched SugarCRM in…
Article courtesy of Internetnews.com. With the 4.5 release of its open source CRM package, SugarCRM is capitalizing on its growing popularity in the space, with downloads doubling from 400,000 to 800,000 in six months and a Microsoft partnership highlighting its…
SugarCRM 4.0 is set to debut this week with new features in the commercial open source CRM enhanced workflow, reporting and marketing automation software. The latest version is the seventh major release since SugarCRM started back in April 2004 in…
Immediate customer interaction is often the key to increased customer satisfaction and sales for both bricks and mortar retailers and for e-commerce businesses as well. Crafty Syntax Live Help (CSLH) is an open source solution that helps customer interaction with…
Open source CRM vendor SugarCRM hopes its new offering, which comes in professional and open source flavors, is even sweeter than its predecessors. Sugar Open Source Edition 2.5 expands the CRM interface to include Web portal tools, according to the…
Surveys have always played a critical role in developing marketing strategy and measuring user/customer response. However, creating, managing and delivering surveys hasn’t always been easy or cost effective. The latest tool from the WebSurveyor Corporation, the self-titled WebSurveyor 5.0 hopes…
Verisign has launched its new name server initiative, a move designed to improve the speed with which .com and .net DNS zone files are updated. VeriSign Naming and Directory Services (VNDS) promises to update the core 13 .com and .net…
Customer relationship management software and sales force automation are favored ticket items with small and medium-sized businesses, according to a report from AMI-Partners. The firm’s study of the 2003 U.S. Enterprise Software Market found that small and medium sized businesses…
In a show of force and determinism, PeopleSoft made a barrage of announcements at its Las Vegas Leadership Summit, touching on virtually all aspects of its business. For starters, the company launched the latest version of PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM versions…
A handful of large and mid-tier software vendors are rumbling about what customers really want as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) sector continues to define itself. The marketplace, which includes collaborative suits such as Customer Resource Management (CRM), Human Resource…
It’s 9 a.m. Do you know where your users are? For increasingly more marketers, that’s not such a crazy question. As the Web becomes more measurable and we target our audiences more directly via psychographics, demographics, dayparts, and measures, knowing…