MapR Brings Open Source Hadoop to Github and Ubuntu Linux
Big Data startup MapR is expanding its open source and Linux footprint this week. MapR recently announced a…
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Big Data Genomics Firm Bina Raises $6M
Big Data marketing and analytics companies aren’t the only ones soaking up the VC funds. Bina Technologies, a…
Latest Zoho CRM Upgrade Boosts Email Efficiency
Zoho never goes long without making updates to its flagship cloud-based CRM software. In Zoho’s last update, in…
Platfora Launches In-Memory BI Platform
The consumerization of Big Data trend continues apace with new software that puts Hadoop-powered analytics into the hands…
IBM’s Social Email Push
Email is one software application that’s practically guaranteed to be on the taskbar of every office worker. IBM…
MapR Hauls $30M for Enterprise Big Data
It’s time for Big Data to make a serious push into the corporate data center, argues MapR Technologies. And…
Microsoft Ramps up Yammer Integration
Jared Spataro, senior director of Microsoft’s Office division, is constantly fielding the same question. IT execs and managers…
Big Data Open Source App Framework Gets Funded
The world of Big Data is full of big money. The latest group to raise capital is Big…
Salesforce Chatter Bridges Social and Mobile CRM Divide
Chatter updates are nothing new, but the latest upgrade finally bridges the gap between consumers empowered by social media…
Information Builders Dives into Social Media Analytics
Just weeks after giving WebFOCUS BI the Big Data analytics treatment, New York City-based Information Builders today announced the…
Cloud BI Firm HG Data Raises $2M
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based HG Data, a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) and analytics specialist, is preparing to venture into new…
Alteryx Updates Analytics Platform
George Mathew, COO and president of Alteryx, earlier this year predicted that one of the top business intelligence…
Adobe Marketing Cloud Makes Move to ‘Mobile First’
Adobe Marketing Cloud is about to grow much more accommodating of mobile devices, including Android smartphones and tablets like…
Cloud Analytics Startup Anaplan Hauls $30M
Anaplan, a San Francisco-based enterprise modeling and planning startup, announced today it has raised $30 million in a…
Information Builders Gives WebFOCUS the Big Data Analytics Treatment
Business intelligence (BI) software provider Information Builders today unveiled three updated offerings aimed at simplifying Big Data analytics…
Salesforce Tops CRM Rankings: Capterra
Salesforce is the most popular customer relationship management (CRM) solution, according to a new infographic charting the 20 most…
Chartio Adds Salesforce to Visual Analytics Mix
Chartio, a San Francisco-based visual analytics startup, is expanding its platform by adding support for a major source…
Teradata Enhances Visualization Capabilities of Big Data Platform
One of the top 10 business intelligence trends for 2013, based on interviews with experts conducted by Enterprise…
Open Source Elasticsearch Firm Raises $24M
Amsterdam-based Big Data search startup Elasticsearch announced it just closed on a Series B round of funding valued at…
Social Video Ad Firm Virool Raises $6.6M
Virool, a San Francisco startup that specializes in social video advertising, has raised $6.62 million in an early…
Persado Raises $15M for Persuasive Marketing
Persado, a marketing and Web advertising software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, today announced that the company closed on a round…
Sailthru Raises $19M for Personalized Slant on Big Data
New York City-based startup Sailthru today announced that it had raised $19 million to grow its “Smart Data” platform and…
DataXu Raises $27M for Big Data Marketing
Boston-based DataXu announced today that it had raised $27 million in a round of funding led by Thomvest Ventures and…
Google Snaps Up Channel Intelligence for $125M
Google is acquiring online and social marketing and e-commerce specialist Channel Intelligence for $125 million, the latter’s parent company ICG…
IBM Buys Business Intelligence Automation Specialist
When it comes to business analytics companies, IBM can’t seem to keep its checkbook closed. In its latest…
SAS Aims Visual Analytics at Midsized Businesses
SAS is opening the Big Data visualization floodgates with an update to SAS Visual Analytics. The company is…
Big Data Market to Reach $48.3B by 2018
There’s big money to be made in Big Data, according to a forecast from Albany, NY-based Transparency Market Research.…
Dell Accelerates Moves to SAP HANA
SAP’s HANA in-memory database is one of the fastest-growing technologies in the history of SAP. While HANA is…
EMC Debuts Greenplum Unified Analytics Appliance for Big Data
EMC is throwing down the analytics gauntlet and claiming a Big Data first in the process. The data…
Oracle Advances Cloud App Plans
Oracle is pushing forward with its effort to bring its enterprise applications to the cloud. During a call…
IBM Forges Cloud Connections for Revamped Social Enterprise Slate
IBM today pulled back the curtain on a new version of its Connections software that will make even…
Integration Key to Social CRM Solution from NextPrinciples
NextPrinciples, a ZDNet 2013 CRM Watchlist winner, today introduced an integrated social analytics and engagement platform called Insight-to-Action.…
Zettaset Raises Millions to Orchestrate Big Data
There has been a lot of Big Money invested in Big Data in recent years. You can now…
Microsoft Dynamics for Retail Goes Omni-Channel
Omni-channel engagement is the latest battleground for retailers and the tech titans that they depend on for their…
IBM Retail Software Targets Omni-Channel Shoppers
IBM took the wraps off new retailing software and solutions offerings under its Smarter Commerce banner during NRF 2013,…
Alteryx Analytics Gallery Gathers Steam
Alteryx, a business analytics software maker, is bullish on its Big Data for the masses approach to analytics.…
Epicor Extends Retail CRM’s Reach
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) software specialist Epicor today announced a new version of its CRM…
SAP Business Suite Gets a HANA In-Memory Boost
SAP is not slowing down when it comes to finding new markets for its HANA in-memory analytics platform.…
Host Analytics Raises $17M for Cloud EPM
Enterprise performance management (EPM) is emerging as an important new front in the cloud business app wars. Host…
HP Launches Big Data Certification Program
Want to get schooled in Big Data? IT systems and services provider Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced a new…
Zoho CRM Adds Smart Email, Location Awareness, More
Zoho today launched new updates to its CRM suite aimed at helping sales and marketing professionals collaborate better, prioritize…
Infusionsoft Banks $54M for Small Biz CRM
Sales and marketing software provider Infusionsoft announced today that it had completed a round of financing worth $54 million…
OpenERP 7.0 Sets Stage for One-Stop Integrated Business Apps
OpenERP, a Belgium-based maker of open source ERP software, capped off the year by announcing a new release…
Oracle Grabs Eloqua’s Marketing Cloud for $871M
Oracle today announced that it is acquiring Eloqua, a cloud-based marketing automation and revenue performance management software company, in…
Splunk Intros More Big Data SDKs
San Francisco-based Splunk is taking a page out of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s playbook in order to build developer interest…
Oracle Debuts Big Data Appliance X3-2 and Updated Hadoop Connectors
Oracle today unveiled Big Data Appliance X3-2, a combined server hardware and software offering that the company is…
Oracle Snaps up DataRaker
Oracle announced that it is acquiring DataRaker, a firm that specializes in cloud-based analytics for energy companies and water…
Feds to Spend $7.2B on Big Data by 2017
A new forecast from Deltek indicates that Big Data software and IT systems vendors will find a big customer in…
Birst Launches Predictive Sales Analytics
San Francisco-based Birst, a maker of business analytics software, announced a new version of its analytics platform for sales…
IDInteract Launches Demand Exchange Cloud
Seattle-based IDInteract today launched Demand Exchange, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product for sales and marketing organizations. IDInteract leverages Big…