ServiceNow Aims to Expand Use of Service Management
As Enterprise Apps Today reported a few months ago, companies are finding new uses for their service management…
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Tibco Simplifies Data Discovery with Latest Spotfire Update
Companies finally appear to be making business intelligence accessible to a broader group of users, according to at…
RingCentral Intros App Development Platform
Application integration is still too often an afterthought for folks evaluating enterprise software. While folks understand its importance,…
FinancialForce.com Tackles Rebate Revenue Management
Closed-loop business processes, even ones that directly impact the bottom line, are relatively rare in supply chain management.…
Salesforce ‘Doubles Down’ on Mobile Analytics
Growth in mobile business intelligence has been steady but slow, according to many experts. But 120 days after…
Logi Analytics Intros Hourly Pricing for Analytics Tool
One of the original promises of the cloud was that enterprises could buy computing infrastructure on-demand, so they…
Hitachi Buys Pentaho to Bolster Big Data Business
Business intelligence and Big Data analytics vendor Pentaho is being acquired by Hitachi Data Services (HDS), in a…
Lavastorm Simplifies Predictive Analytics
Many business intelligence experts, including those who made recent business intelligence and analytics predictions for 2015, predict that…
Lightning Strikes at Salesforce with DIY Development Platform
Salesforce.com is a company that is perhaps best known for its array of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, but it…
Jive Adds Mobile Apps in Bid for New Business
Given that inspiration to brainstorm an idea with colleagues can strike at any time and in any place,…
SAP ‘Reinvents’ Business Suite for HANA
One of the trickiest tasks for enterprise software giants like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft is offering the cloud-based…
MapR Frees Hadoop Education
Hadoop is a big deal in the world of Big Data applications and analysis, but getting qualified staff…
Distelli Raises $2.8 Million for App Deployment as a Service Platform
As organizations of all sizes increasingly look to the cloud as a deployment and delivery model for applications,…
Teradata Buys Mobile Marketing Specialist
Like Salesforce and Oracle before it, Teradata is building a suite of cloud-based marketing software through a series…
GraphLab Becomes Dato, Raises $18.5M for Machine Learning Tech
GraphLab, a provider of analytics software based on open source code, is changing its name to Dato as…
Salesforce Offers Tool for Enterprise App Stores
There are so many app stores out there, it can be tough to keep track. Though Apple was…
Hachicorp Raises $10M to Advance Open Source DevOps Vision
HashiCorp today announced that it has secured a $10 million Series A round of funding. The company will…
Mesosphere Raises $36M for Application Data Center OS
Startup Mesosphere today announced it has raised $36 million in a Series B round of funding, to fuel…
Attunity Buys BIReady’s Data Warehouse Automation Technology
Attunity, a provider of data management software, is beefing up its Big Data offerings by acquiring the data…
Apache Drills into Hadoop
It’s a big week for Big Data and the open source Hadoop ecosystem. The Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 project…
Splice Machine Releases Hadoop RDBMS Version 1.0
In a recent discussion about how the Internet of Things will change Big Data analytics, a Cisco executive…
Adobe’s Marketing Cloud Gets Geo-Location, Other Mobile Features
Marketers are bullish on mobile marketing, and especially on location-based services. Adobe is hoping to capitalize on this…
Attensity Boosts Ability to Discover ‘Unknown’ Trends in Data
Most social analytics tools use “mentions” as a key criteria for measuring campaign success, market interest or user…
Anaplan Intros App Sharing Community for Enterprise Planning
When Anaplan, a provider of cloud-based operations and financial planning software, raised $100 million in Series D funding…
Workday Puts Predictive Spin on HR Analytics
It’s a new day for Workday, the maker of financial management and HR software, as it rolls out…
Birst Analytics App Unifies Marketing Data
Companies have almost more marketing data than they can handle, coming from a variety of channels and applications,…
SAP Intros Program to Boost HANA Adoption
SAP’s HANA suffered an image problem a few months ago when three-quarters of the members of the Americas’…
Cloudera Improves Hadoop Big Data Features and Security
Hadoop vendor Cloudera has rolled out a new enterprise platform release and improved security controls for Big Data…
NetSuite Payroll Software Gets New Features
Few business processes are as important as employee payroll. The process is often complicated, however, by the need…
Zoho Tightens CRM Integration for Unified Customer Experience
While CRM vendors are striving to improve the usability of their products, integration is a far bigger issue.…
Salesforce Revamps Sales, Service Apps
With less than a week to go until Dreamforce, CRM giant Salesforce is already making major announcements that…
Company Rebrands to Reflect App Expansion
Open source ERP provider OpenERP, which announced a new name and a $10 million round of funding earlier…
Cloud ERP, Financials Among New Infor Apps
Infor, a company that assembled a large portfolio of enterprise applications through dozens of acquisitions over the past…
Micro Focus Acquiring Attachmate for $2.3B
Micro Focus announced today its intention to acquire privately-held Attachmate in a deal valued at approximately $2.3 billion.…
Adaptive Insights’ Analytics Software Adds Data Integration Tool
While companies are interested in using cloud analytics, many of them cite data integration issues as a key…
Clarabridge Adds Speech Analytics to Contact Center Software
Clarabridge, a provider of customer experience management (CEM) software, is rolling out Clarabridge Speech, a speech analytics solution…
F&A Process Automation Is Focus of Host Analytics Release
Finance and accounting professionals don’t have time for “mundane processes” said Alex Ortiz, head of Product Marketing for…
Data Discovery Gets Social in Logi Analytics Software
Earlier this year Logi analytics rolled out Logi Vision, software designed to make data discovery accessible to “regular”…
Infor Bolsters Cloud Suite with Saleslogix CRM Buy
Infor, a company known for its cloud ERP targeted to specific industry verticals such as automotive and hospitality,…
Teradata Addresses Marketing Analytics Shortage
Big Data is the new Big Man on Campus. As the New York Times reports, schools offering data…
Is Tibco for Sale?
Is Tibco for sale? The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones both published reports that it is, which…
Pipeliner CRM Updates App with Gmail Integration, More
Pipeliner CRM has updated its flagship application with productivity and usability enhancements, including more functional calendar views, social…
Accelerating Big Data Value Aim of Actian Program
Though lots of organizations are interested in leveraging Big Data, relatively few of them already have Big Data…
Qlik Intros Desktop Data Visualization App
Qlik, a provider of data discovery software, introduced a free version of its data visualization application called Qlik…
Logi Analytics Expands Big Data Influence with Partnerships
Logi Analytics, provider of a Web-based data discovery solution, has inked partnerships with more than half a dozen…
Host Analytics’ App Narrows Finance and Sales Divide
Many sales teams continue to eschew analytics software and use Excel spreadsheets for their sales forecasting and trend…
NetSuite Buys E-commerce Provider Venda
NetSuite, which is known primarily for its cloud-based ERP software, has acquired London-based Venda, a provider of e-commerce…
SoftWatch’s Analytics Service Targets Software Licensing Costs
SoftWatch, a company that earlier this year introduced an analytics application that tracks usage of Microsoft Office across…
Genesys to Put IBM’s Watson to Work
Contact centers have long recorded customer telephone calls in an effort to improve agent performance and increase customer…
MapR Gets Big Money for Big Data
If there was any doubt that the Big Data market is a platform for big money, those doubts…