SnapLogic Raises $40M in Series F Funding Round
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Is AI the Next CRM Battleground?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting a lot of attention of late. Salesforce unleashed a torrent of hype about…
The Red Herring of Marketing’s ‘Digital Transformation’
Marketers are no longer just marketers. They’re “digital marketers” with fancy, techno-age buzzwords festooning their LinkedIn profiles and…
Node.js Moves to a Stable, VM-Neutral Future
On November 29, 2016 the Node.js Foundation announced a major effort to help further grow and stabilize node.js…
Salesforce Aims for $10B in Fiscal 2018
Software as a Service (SaaS) pioneer Salesforce is moving into new revenue territory as the company continues to…
Sauce Labs Raises $70M for Application Testing
Before any company deploys any web or mobile app, it needs to test, and that’s where Sauce Labs…
Neo Technology Raises $36M to Boost Graph Database App Tech
Graph database developer Neo Technology announced on November 10 that it has raised a $36 million Series D…
Tibco Intros Cloud Task Automation Tool
While process automation has long been the purview of IT organizations, Tibco Software is rolling out Simplr, a…
Apple Updates Apps Ahead of MacBook Pro Update
Apple made waves in the tech world last week with the announcement of its new MacBook Pro. A…
ServiceNow Intros ‘Command Center’ for IT Leaders
ServiceNow, which earlier this year introduced products for enabling cross-functional customer service and improving enterprise security, continues to…
JIRA Service Desk Broadens Customer Support Horizons
Customer support can be a weak link of traditional CRM software, which often focuses more on sales than…
Vendors Pile on Big Data News at Strata
Vendors big and small are making news at this week’s Strata + Hadoop event as they try to…
Workday Intros Planning, Learning, Education Products
Workday is expanding into new areas of the enterprise which it hopes will appeal to its current user…
Oracle Updates Apps for Next Gen Cloud
Oracle is aiming to grow its applications business in the cloud, with announcements — lots of them —…
Worksoft Aims to Facilitate Process Discovery in SAP Apps
Despite the proven importance of process improvement in technology initiatives, many companies give short shrift to mapping and…
Teradata Expands Database Deployment Options
Teradata rolled out several new cloud-friendly deployment options for its analytic database at this week’s Teradata Partners Conference.…
Sencha Offers Service to Modernize Legacy Oracle Forms Apps
When it comes to software development, most companies prefer to focus on developing new applications. Yet updating legacy…
Marrying Email and CRM, Zoho Targets CRM Giants
Zoho, a provider of business apps including Zoho CRM, does not have to look far for a successful…
Sales Productivity Software Startup TinderBox Rebrands as Octiv
TinderBox, a provider of sales productivity software that was profiled in an Enterprise Apps Today article last August,…
Jive Collaborative Software Update Leverages Machine Learning
Taking a cue from Facebook and other social channels that attempt to surface information most relevant to users,…
Hadoop Summit Brings Big Data News
It was a big week for Big Data, with multiple vendors making announcements at this week’s Hadoop Summit…
Red Hat Reiterates Support for Java EE With New Release
Red Hat officially closed on its acquisition of enterprise Java tools vendor JBoss for $350 million last June.…
AppFormix Debuts ContainerFlow to Monitor Docker Apps
Sumeet Singh, founder and CEO of AppFormix, has been busy over the last 12 months. In June 2015,…
Microsoft’s $26B Deal for LinkedIn Puts Social Back on Enterprise Map
One Twitter user reacted to Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn by saying both companies are “basically tech…
Summit Sparks Flurry of New Products
At the center of this week’s Spark Summit is the open source Apache Spark technology, which has emerged…
Puppet Embraces Docker Containers for Delivery
Puppet is widely used by organizations today as part of a DevOps model and to help enable configuration…
ServiceNow Aims to Enable Cross-functional Customer Service
Anyone who has spent time on the phone or online trying to resolve a customer service issue has…
Professional Services Firms, FinancialForce Has an App for You
The Technology Service Industry Association recently recognized FinancialForce PSA, introduced in 2010, as the world’s most widely used…
Salesforce on Track for $10B in Revenue
The big news from Salesforce’s first quarter fiscal 2017 earnings: The CRM giant is on track to crack…
Host Analytics Beefs up Analytics, Collaboration Capabilities
Finance departments are finally beginning to lessen their reliance on spreadsheets and use more advanced analytics. Cognizant of…
MarkLogic 9 Boosts NoSQL Database [PODCAST]
The world of NoSQL database technology has many entrants, among them MarkLogic. This week the company announced some…
Dell SharePlex Supports Replication for More Databases
The explosion in different data types – including structured and unstructured, Big Data and Fast Data – has…
Qlik Intros New Cloud Analytics Software
When it comes to cloud, analytics has seen a slower adoption rate than some other types of enterprise…
Easier Data Prep Is Focus of Datawatch’s Software Update
Business intelligence expert Howard Dresner, of Dresner Advisory Services, is bullish on the market for self-service data preparation.…
Cloudera Gives Hadoop a Spark
The open source Hadoop platform has emerged in recent years as the defacto standard tool for Big Data.…
IBM Intros Apache Spark Platform for Mainframe
Open source data processing engine Apache Spark continues to win favor in the enterprise, as evidenced by its…
More Map Features, Faster Data Analysis in Tableau Update
Geolocation and map customization features were among the new capabilities in a December update of Tableau Software’s business…
Yellowfin Update Aims to Boost BI Collaboration
For some time now there has been much buzz around the idea of getting more data into the…
With IQity Buy, NetSuite Broadens ERP Appeal for Manufacturers
There is little doubt that IQity’s cloud manufacturing software complements NetSuite’s cloud ERP software. After attending a webinar…
FinancialForce Adds Personalization to Finance Apps
“Personalization” is a big buzz word in enterprise software, especially in customer-facing marketing applications. FinancialForce, a cloud ERP…
Clari Intros Sales Analytics Tool to Enhance Pipeline Visibility
Sales analytics in traditional CRM systems, like other types of analytics, have largely provided “after the fact” analysis…
Apache Arrow to Accelerate Open Source Big Data Analytics
The Apache Software Foundation is rolling out a new top level project this week, and it’s one that…
Salesforce Refreshes Sales, Service Clouds
Salesforce chairman and CEO Marc Benioff did not intend to add configure-price-quote (CPQ) software to Salesforce’s suite of…
Pentaho Expands Data Analysis with Python [PODCAST]
There are a lot of different ways for data scientists to manipulate data. Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company,…
MariaDB Raises New Money, Gets New CEO
MariaDB Corporation, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open source MariaDB database, started 2016 off with a bang,…
Machine Learning Part of Atlassian’s JIRA Service Desk Update
Hot on the heels of a $531 million IPO, the fifth largest IPO in the U.S. of 2015,…
Tableau Gets Native iPhone App with Latest Version
When it comes to mobile apps — especially highly visual ones like data analytics — few things are…
Zendesk Brings Advanced Voice to Customer Service
Customer service support is often a make or break attribute for companies offering goods or services. For Zendesk,…
Apperian Brings Universal Distribution to Mobile App Management
There is more than one way to distribute a mobile application, and mobile application management (MAM) vendor Apperian…
Azuqua Aims to Eliminate CRM Data Silos
Many CRM vendors are striving to offer more user-friendly interfaces to make their software more useful. While this…