Enterprise Software Leads IT Spending Growth: Gartner
IT spending is predicted to reach $3.7 trillion worldwide in 2013, a 2 percent increase over last year’s…
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Coming this Fall
Microsoft is setting out to help businesses better connect with today’s empowered, social media savvy consumer. The company’s…
Adobe Acquires Neolane to Bolster its Marketing Cloud
Adobe announced June 27 that the company is acquiring Paris-based Neolane, a privately held marketing software company that specializes…
Base CRM Steps Up to the Enterprise
Base is branching out and aiming at the booming market for enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The Chicago-based…
Salesforce and Oracle Link Clouds
Salesforce and Oracle, whose outspoken CEOs have often traded barbs, announced this week that they have entered into…
Microsoft Moves ERP to the Cloud
Microsoft ERP solutions are now available in the cloud, with a little help from channel partners. The company…
IBM Aims SmartCloud Analytics at the C-Suite
High-level executives aren’t only bigwigs around the office, they are also emerging as VIPs in IBM’s efforts to drive adoption…
Zurmo 2.0: Open Source CRM for Gen X and Y
Zurmo, the PHP-based open source customer relationship management (CRM) software platform, arrived at a big milestone today. Today…
KnowledgeAdvisors Takes on HR with Talent Analytics Suite
The market for human capital management (HCM) solutions is showing no signs of slowing down. Today, KnowledgeAdvisors announced…
RelateIQ Raises $20M for Relationship Intelligence Platform
Relationship management is a thing of the past, according Palo Alto-based RelateIQ. The future of maintaining and maximizing business…
HP Autonomy Launches Marketing Cloud
HP is beefing up its cloud services slate with some help from Autonomy, the information management software specialist…
Marketo Revs Customer Engagement Engine
Marketo launched its new Customer Engagement Engine today, a product that the company claims enables marketers to distribute the right…
HP Builds New Big Data HAVEn
HP is expanding its existing Big Data solution set with a new offering known as HAVEn. HAVEn is…
ThinkVine Updates Marketing Mix Optimization Platform
Effective marketing planning will increasingly hinge on accurate forecasting, according to Cincinnati, Ohio-based ThinkVine. In support of this philosophy,…
SAP Readies CRM Onslaught with Hybris Buy
Following SAP’s forays into cloud-based Big Data analytics and social enterprise software to boost its customer relationship management…
Salesforce Buys ExactTarget Marketing Cloud for $2.5B
Salesforce’s push into cloud-based marketing took a big turn today as the customer relationship management (CRM) company announced…
Canvas Raises Millions for Paper-Killing Business Apps
Canvas is helping businesses crumple up and toss away their paper-based workflows, enabling a growing number of workers to…
IBM Aims Big Data Analytics at HR Function
Employees generate and share a lot of data. IBM is banking that human resource (HR) executives and managers…
Salesforce Guns for Corporate Intranets with Company Communities
Ancient content, moldy blogs, wikis piled high with digital dust… Those are just some of the signs…
Pronto Furthers BI for Everyone Mission with Xi 710
Pronto, an Australian enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) specialist, today unveiled the latest edition of…
Big Data App Startup WibiData Raises Millions
WibiData is betting once enterprises start getting a handle on Big Data management, their attention will turn toward…
Splunk, Hortonworks Team for Big Data BI
Splunk, a provider of real-time Big Data intelligence software, and Hadoop innovator Hortonworks are tackling interoperability between their…
IBM Watson Brings Big Data Smarts to Customer Service
IBM’s Watson supercomputing technology is taking on a new role, and this time it has little to do…
Alteryx Raises $12M to ‘Humanize’ Big Data
Alteryx is wasting little time in its efforts to “humanize” Big Data and some venture capitalists have taken…
G2 Crowd Shakes up Enterprise Software Buying with Peer Reviews
Godard Abel is gunning for Gartner. Abel founded a startup called G2 Crowd, a company that grew out…
Jive Delivers Social Inbox with StreamOnce
Jive Software is out to banish one of the most enduring productivity killers in the business app scene:…
SAP Fiori: Consumerization of Enterprise Software Comes to ERP
SAP is betting that “consumer-style apps” will come to define how workers interact with enterprise software in the…
IBM Consolidates Analytics Apps with Blue Insight
Analytics software has been as critical to IBM’s own internal operations as it has been to the company’s…
Twitter Buys Big Data Analytics Startup Lucky Sort
Enterprise software and services providers aren’t the only ones snapping up Big Data analytics startups. Twitter made news…
Crafter Open Source CMS Goes Solo
The open source Crafter content management system (CMS) is getting a new life as a standalone operating entity.…
Oracle Intros In-Memory JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apps
SAP HANA isn’t the only in-memory game in town. Oracle is also leveraging in-memory technology and new software…
SAP Unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud
SAP on May 7 announced HANA Enterprise Cloud, opening up a high-performance, cloud-enabled deployment option for organizations that…
SalesFUSION 8 Blurs CRM and Marketing Automation
SalesFUSION is strengthening and deepening the ties between its marketing automation application and popular customer relationship management (CRM)…
Citrix Adds IM, Video Chat to Podio Collaboration Suite
Citrix is adding a new, social twist to some well-established technologies, namely instant messaging and video chat. The…
Salesforce Communities Shakes up Customer Service
Salesforce officially launched Communities today, a service that according to the company ends “the era of legacy portal software.” Explosive…
Cloudera Accelerates Big Data with Impala GA
Six months ago, enterprise Big Data vendor Cloudera announced the open source Impala project. The goal of Impala…
Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Help Skytree Land $18M
One loves logistics and the other ran an IT empire. Together, they feel that machine learning can pave…
Social Analytics Startup VoloMetrix Banks $3.3M
As enterprises grow more social, organizations can find themselves struggling to align their business goals with the near…
Actian Snags ParAccel for Big Data Management, Analytics
Redwood City, Calif.-based Actian, a Big Data management company, announced today that it had acquired ParAccel, an analytics database…
Salesforce Launches Social.com Ad Platform
Salesforce flipped the switch today on Social.com, a new offering that provides social ad creation, optimization and campaign automation…
Adaptive Planning Intros Financial Consolidation Software
Analytics provider Adaptive Planning has released Adaptive Consolidation, a cloud-based solution it says can help manage business ownership…
Marketing Automation Startup Brandcast Gets Benioff’s Blessing (and Cash)
Salesforce.com is tearing up the enterprise software market, and one startup is hoping to follow in its footsteps…
Enterprise NoSQL Firm MarkLogic Raises $25M
San Carlos, Calif.-based MarkLogic Corporation has raised $25 million in VC funding, which will go toward increasing its ability to…
Oracle Debuts New In-Memory Business App Slate
Oracle is leveraging in-memory technology to give its business applications a performance boost. In-memory systems are packed with much…
Oracle Revamps Endeca and Business Intelligence Foundation
Oracle has updated its analytics software slate in an effort to ease and simplify IT management tasks while…
Jive and Bunchball Usher in Personalized Gamification
Social enterprise specialist Jive released a new version of its Advanced Gamification Module, which the company says will…
Mulesoft Raises $37 Million for App Integration
Getting data out of one app and into another is big business. It’s a business that enterprise integration…
SiSense Nabs $10M by Thinking Small for Big Data Analytics
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based SiSense, a maker of business intelligence software, announced this week it raised $10 million in…
SAS Survey Reveals Big Data Disconnect
Big Data may be dominating the conversation in IT circles, but most businesses just can’t seem to get…
iPad Sales Presentation Software Startup Showpad Raises $2M
Showpad, a Belgium-based startup that makes cloud-based sales presentation software for the iPad, is gearing up for a…