SAP (NYSE: SAP) said it will better meet the needs of the smallest businesses with new hosted subscription and starter packages for the SAP Business One ERP solutions for small businesses. The new starter packages let SAP channel partners offer…
CA (NASDAQ: CA) has expanded its Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution by incorporating collaboration capabilities with Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) Chatter integration. Salesforce Chatter is the cloud CRM vendor’s Facebook-like private social network for enterprise collaboration. By integrating the CA…
According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Business Intelligence Tools Tracker, the worldwide business intelligence (BI) market generated more than $4 billion in revenues in the second half of 2010. This marks the first time the market has surpassed the $4 billion…
Actuate (NASDAQ: BIRT) has announced support and services for Hadoop and MapReduce in the new release of BIRT 3.7, the company’s open-source enterprise business intelligence toolset. Hadoop is an open source framework for managing vast amounts of distributed data (big…
Today’s college grads are ill-prepared to meet business needs for data-savvy workers. Even as the growth of big data is skyrocketing, universities worldwide are struggling, and too frequently failing, to adequately prepare students to meet the demand for employees skilled…
Social CRM is one of those new words that some label a buzzword while others look to find merit in the new technology and applications. For the most part, social CRM is a CRM (customer relationship management) strategy that is…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has expanded its software portfolio to help organizations embrace the power of social business with the announcement of a new version of IBM Connections — a social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities. The new IBM Connections…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has entered into an agreement to acquire web experience management (WEM) company FatWire Software. FatWire is the maker of the well-known FatWire Content Server, a web content management (WCM) platform. It provides tools to speed and streamline…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced the general availability of its HANA in-memory analytics appliance software. The release, according to SAP, heralds a new generation of analytics, business applications and IT simplification with SAP’s in-memory computing technology. SAP’s High-performance Analytic Appliance…
HP (NYSE: HPQ) acquired Vertica earlier this year to tap the fast-growing market for big data analytics and business intelligence. Now Vertica is gearing up for its first major release as an HP company. Vertica today unveiled Vertica 5.0, the…
Pronto Software has unveiled Pronto-Xi Dimensions, a new “smart” ERP solution that brings together enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence in a unified, out-of-the-box solution, with help from IBM Cognos. Launched at Pronto Software’s customer conference in Chicago, the…
Oracle Exadata Database Machines are now certified for SAP applications. With the new Oracle Exadata certification, all SAP products based on SAP NetWeaver 7.x that are also certified for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 can now be used on Exadata…
Business analytics leader SAS has announced the latest version of SAS Fraud Management. According to the company, the new version provides faster, more versatile and accurate enterprise fraud detection. “Real-time transaction and behavioral monitoring is a critical component of internet…
According to a recent IBM (NYSE: IBM) global study of CIOs, the top strategic technology investment over the next five years at outperforming midsize organizations is using business analytics to extract actionable insights from big data. The study also indicated…
Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite (NYSE: N) has extended its cloud-based business management suite with new demand planning features for wholesalers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors. Leveraging NetSuite’s integrated business management suite, NetSuite said its new demand planning bridges the gap between…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced the availability of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting 4.5, the newest version of Oracle’s enterprise solution for insurance rating and underwriting. The latest release extends the product’s capabilities to international insurance markets, with support…
Business process management (BPM) software provider Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA) has unveiled the latest version of Pega BPM, which offers new predictive and adaptive components to help with business decisions. “Organizations need to be able to build for change in today’s…
Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) says it has unleashed the business potential of “big data” by offering support for social media data and Hadoop in the new Informatica 9.1 open data integration platform. “Building on nearly two decades of innovation and leadership,…
A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by business analytics leader SAS identifies a clear need for technology to help organizations maximize social media efforts. The report, Re-envisioning customer value, found that the rise of social media has required…
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has announced that enterprise social collaboration solutions provider Socialcast is joining the recent acquisitions of SlideRocket and Zimbra, as the virtualization leader continues to build out its collaboration and enterprise social networking portfolio. The acquisition of Socialcast…
The worldwide business process management (BPM) and middleware market has recovered strongly from a 2009 slump, according to IDC. The research firm said 2010 BPM and middleware revenue totaled nearly $16.1 billion, representing growth of 9.2 percent and up from…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has expanded its business intelligence portfolio with the release of a new analytics application for the retail sector. Part of the Retail Analytics product family, Oracle Retail Merchandising Analytics is a prebuilt business intelligence application that incorporates…
According to a recent survey by Hubspan Inc., when it comes to enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployment, customization and integration are the two greatest application challenges facing enterprises today. The Hubspan survey, based on responses from more than 200 North…
Open source business process management (BPM) provider BonitaSoft has announced some significant upgrades for its new version 5.5 release. Bonita Open Solution (BOS) 5.5 includes many upgrades that were the result of feedback from the company’s 5,500 community users and…
Enhancing functionality of its business process management (BPM) suite, AuraPortal has announced a new Marketing Campaigns (MC) module that forms part of the customer relationship management (CRM) domain of AuraPortal. AuraPortal’s Web-based business process management suite integrates CRM functionality and…
Software AG will acquire Terracotta, which offers some of the most widely-used software for application scalability, availability and performance. Terracotta is the developer of Ehcache, the open source distributed data cache for Java applications, and the Java add-on for Enterprise…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled news software and services to address “Big Data” challenges like mining massive amounts of social media data for business intelligence. The new software and services are part of Big Blue’s Big Data Initiative that will…
Business analytics leader SAS has announced new pre-built Industry Taxonomy Rules starter kits for SAS Enterprise Content Categorization. The new taxonomy add-ons, according to SAS, can cut the implementation time for text analytics from months to weeks. SAS’ text analytics…
Openbravo has announced a new commercial offering that extends its web-based open source ERP solution. The new POS Retail Module, based on Openbravo’s popular POS open source project, delivers integrated Point-of-Sale and store management capabilities to the Openbravo ERP solution.…
Enterprise social networking provider Yammer has unveiled a number of new integration products that add a “social layer” to improve collaboration and decision-making within enterprises. According to Yammer, the new suite of integration products enable enterprise networks to integrate social…
The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) has released findings from its six-month Health Care and Life Sciences Analytics Research Council (HARC) study that the group says demonstrates that analytics can change health care. According to the technology and market research…
The worldwide supply chain management software market rebounded strongly last year, according to research and advisory company Gartner Inc. For 2010, the worldwide supply chain management (SCM) software market returned to double-digit growth, as the year saw SCM software revenue…
EMC (NYSE: EMC) says the company has a new strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software that is emerging as the preferred solution for Big Data analytics across unstructured data in enterprises. Announced at EMC World…
Looking to establish itself as a market leader in cloud ERP solutions for enterprises, NetSuite (NYSE: N) this week unveiled NetSuite Unlimited, the company’s online business suite designed to meet the financial and ERP software needs of the biggest and…
AVOS, a new Internet company led by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has acquired Tap11.com, a real-time business intelligence platform. Tap11’s platform integrates social media publishing and analytics into a single dashboard to allow marketers to monitor, engage…
Business intelligence (BI) solution provider Information Builders has partnered with Teradata (NYSE: TDC) to offer a new data warehousing solution as part of the Teradata Accelerate program. Built on a Teradata data warehouse appliance, the new offering leverages Information Builders…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched new cloud-based analytics software, Coremetrics Lifecycle, that Big Blue says will help boost online marketing results. The announcement follow’s IBM’s recent launch of a new software and services practice dedicated to the emerging category of…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is taking a grassroots approach to business intelligence (BI) technology with the quiet launch of its new portal for experimental business intelligence projects and applications. First spotted by ZDNet Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley, the website, Microsoft…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) is going social. The company has announced it is extending enterprise social networking and collaboration by integrating its cloud-based SAP StreamWork Application with all SAP business software, making StreamWork the “social hub” for all things SAP. The…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has completed its acquisition of social CRM vendor Radian6. Salesforce said Radian6’s social media monitoring platform is already used by more than half of Fortune 100 companies to monitor, analyze and engage in social media conversations. Salesforce…
The mission is clear: to take enterprise productivity to new heights. That’s the statement posted on the Magnet Systems blog after the startup’s announcement that Andreessen Horowitz was the lead investor in a $12.6 million Series A round of funding…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is offering a free Calendar Analytics application to demonstrate the power of its PowerPivot business intelligence tool. The new Calendar Analytics PowerPivot application from Microsoft’s Business Intelligence team helps solve a problem many busy professionals have —…
Business Intelligence spending may be on the rise, but not everyone is happy with their purchase, if a recent survey is any indication. The survey, by online business intelligence vendor LogiXML, outlines a number of reasons why many companies suffer…
Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS) has announced that its Epsilon Business unit has agreed to acquire Aspen Marketing Services. Epsilon’s agency business and Aspen will be integrated into one agency marketing platform operating under the Aspen Marketing Services name.…
Open source enterprise content management company Alfresco Software has released the 2.0 version of the Activiti Business Process Management (BPM) open source project. According to Alfresco, Activiti is an independently-run and branded open source project that will work independently of…
Vancouver-based Maximizer Software has joined the array of CRM vendors adding cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to their lineup. Now, Maximizer customers can choose to subscribe to Maximizer CRM Live cloud-based applications or deploy Maximizer CRM software on-premise. In…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has upgraded its enterprise performance management software to include new financial reporting and compliance features. Following its recent PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM) feature pack, Oracle is adding financial reporting and compliance to Oracle…
Business intelligence (BI) software provider MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has unveiled MicroStrategy 9.2, which offers a number of improvements and includes a major new feature called Visual Insight that lets users mine data without the need for IT assistance. MicroStrategy says…
Business Intelligence (BI) solution provider Panorama Software has unveiled its new Necto BI solution. As noted by the company in a release statement, the socially enabled Necto BI platform can connect data, analytic insights and individuals across a company and…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has unveiled Business Process Manager, new software and services aimed at helping organizations transform their business processes through the use of tools that provide an integrated view of business processes across the organization. With the new business process…