Sage SalesLogix 8 Champions Sales Roles, Mobile Access
Business software maker Sage today announced the launch of Sage SalesLogix 8, the latest edition of the company’s on-premise…
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Big Data Analytics Startup ClearStory Raises $9M
Analytics startups are starting to attract the attention of venture capitalists, potentially hastening the consumerization of Big Data.…
IBM Completes Kenexa Buy, Preps Analytics-Driven HCM
IBM’s bid for Kenexa is officially a done deal. Big Blue today announced that it had closed on its…
SAS Points Big Data Guns at Fraudsters
Anti-fraud is emerging as a potentially lucrative front in Big Data analytics. Business software maker SAS hopes to…
Zurmo CRM Gets In-App Email
Zurmo’s developers keep on piling on the features. After adding gamification to the open source customer relationship management (CRM)…
Drupal Sponsor Acquia Brings in $68.5 Million of Funding
There is a lot of money backing the open source Drupal content management system (CMS). Acquia, the lead…
SAP Launches Predictive Analysis for Big Data
SAP forges ahead with its predictive analytics strategy with this week’s public launch of new software aimed at…
Yellowfin Adds Social Sharing for Business Intelligence Boost
Yellowfin today previewed new features in the upcoming 6.2 version of its namesake business intelligence software. Having already established a…
Salesforce Keeps Adding New Products, Growing Revenues
Salesforce.com is widely considered a pioneer of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, having helped create it from the ground…
Socialbakers Raises $6M to Accelerate Global Expansion
Socialbakers, a social analytics firm, announced today that it had closed on a round of funding worth $6…
Nimble Offers API for Social CRM Integration
Social CRM provider Nimble this week introduced an API called Contact that will allow third-party software companies to…
Jaspersoft 5.0 Enables Business Intelligence with HTML5
Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft is updating its commercial platform with a new release. The Jaspersoft 5.0…
SAP Unveils Windows 8 Mobile Apps
Betting that Windows 8 will make a splash in the enterprise mobility market, SAP today announced six new…
Selligy iPhone App Streamlines Sales Meetings
There’s a productivity dead zone somewhere between the time a salesperson last checks Salesforce and the moment she…
Microsoft Adds Moxie to Dynamics CRM
Moxie Software, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based customer service software specialist, today announced a partnership with Microsoft that brings its…
MicroStrategy Uses Cloud to Deliver Self-serve Business Intelligence
Buying business intelligence software has traditionally involved purchasing both the software and the hardware required to run it.…
Microsoft Preps Dynamics CRM Update for December
Capitalizing on the wave of new product releases that have swept over the company, Microsoft announced today that…
RedPrairie Snags JDA Software in $1.9B SCM Deal
Supply chain software makers JDA Software and RedPrairie announced today that they are merging in a deal valued at an estimated $1.9…
SAP Jam Adds Business Context to Social Enterprise
Salesforce.com, Jive Software and other companies offering social software to enterprises are taking the wrong approach, said several…
Microsoft, Hortonworks Debut Hadoop-powered HDInsight
Azure for Big Data workloads? Hortonworks has again teamed with Microsoft to extend Hadoop support to the latter’s…
EMC Addressing Dearth of Big Data Talent with Kaggle Partnership
While it’s easy to find marketing hype about Big Data, it’s hard to find professionals who understand what…
Cloudera Intros Hadoop Real Time Query Engine for Big Data
The Apache Hadoop project is at the core of the Big Data revolution. One of the key enablers…
Former Yahoo Cloud Chief Aims to Ease Hadoop Development
Todd Papaioannou knows a thing or two about Hadoop. The former chief cloud architect at Yahoo, Papaioannou is…
Cisco Tidal Takes on Big Data
Cisco is expanding its Tidal Enterprise Scheduler technology in a new release that takes aim at Big Data…
Alpine Predictive Analytics Takes Aim at Hadoop
Hadoop support is quickly emerging as a prerequisite for predictive analytics software makers. San Mateo, Calif.-based Alpine Data…
Microsoft Makes Marketing Automation Acquisition
If enterprise app popularity was judged by the number of big vendors buying small pureplays, marketing automation would…
SAP HANA One: In-Memory Analytics Meets SaaS on Amazon’s Cloud
Buoyed by the popularity of HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) among developers, SAP has launched HANA One, a business…
HP Enters Business Analytics Services Fray
HP today took the wraps off a new services slate aimed at helping companies leverage the business-boosting potential…
SAS High-Performance Analytic Server Gets Hadoop Boost
SAS is leaving nothing to chance when it comes to in-memory Big Data analytics, according to Jim Davis,…
SAP HANA Comes to Cisco and HP
SAP is not a hardware company. That fact is helping fuel a rush of new server hardware platforms…
Alteryx Enlists Cloud for Consumerization of Big Data
Alteryx, a maker of business analytics software, today revealed another part of its strategy to “humanize” business intelligence. The…
Insightly Raises $3M, Will Use Funds for Its Small Business CRM App
Insightly, a company that has the top-ranked customer management application in the Google Apps marketplace, has completed a…
SAP Debuts HANA-Powered Precision Retailing Cloud Service
SAP today unveiled Precision Retailing, a cloud-based service powered by the company’s HANA in-memory analytics platform, which allows retailers…
HootSuite Reveals Social Enterprise Ambitions with Conversations
HootSuite, a company best known for helping customers manage their social media accounts, today announced its new Conversations…
SAP Still Has Analytics Aspirations for Sybase IQ Database
Although SAP is putting its HANA in-memory database at the center of its analytics strategy, it obviously wants…
Tibco Spotfire 5.0 Casts Wider Big Data Analytics Net
How does Tibco follow up on a big in-memory analytics and visualization software release? By diving deep into the…
Salesforce Launches Social Services at Dreamforce
Despite an abandoned attempt to trademark the term, Salesforce is not slowing down in its quest to become…
Infor Intros Marketing Automation App on Salesforce Platform
Infor, a provider of CRM, ERP and other business applications, launched Inforce Marketing, a marketing automation system built…
Oracle Buys SelectMinds, Another Cloud HCM Company
Oracle is once again stirring things up in the heated human capital management (HCM) space. The company is…
IBM Connections: Big Data Analytics Meets Social Enterprise
IBM is blending two of the hottest areas in enterprise software today — Big Data analytics and social…
Epicor Readies Cloud ERP for Midsized Businesses
Epicor is following up on its cloud-based Epicor ERP Express Edition product — and revealing its enterprise software…
SAP Adds More HANA Cloud Apps
HANA, SAP’s in-memory database platform, continues to play an increasingly big role in the German software giant’s strategy…
HootSuite Buys Seesmic to Woo Enterprise Social Media Users
HootSuite, a social network management specialist, has acquired rival cross-platform social account management app maker Seesmic for an…
Kred Sniffs out Social Influencers on Salesforce CRM
Klout, a startup that offers a service that helps individuals and companies measure their social clout, brought the…
BP Logix Delivers New Version of Process Director BPM Software
BP Logix, a provider of business process management (BPM) software, has introduced Process Director Version 2.5, the latest…
CallidusCloud Is Salesforce’s Latest Force.com Partner
Salesforce.com’s enterprise application development ecosystem, Force.com, grew a little bigger today with CallidusCloud’s LeadFormix. LeadFormix is a cloud-based lead…
HCM Specialist Workday Files for $400M IPO
Pleasanton, Calif.-based Workday filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), it was revealed late Thursday. Founded…
Cloud Security Alliance Sets Sights on Big Data Security
Is Big Data ushering in an era of big security challenges? The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) isn’t taking…
Quest Launches Toad Business Intelligence Tools
Quest Software is entering the business intelligence (BI) tools fray with new software that the company has named Toad Business Intelligence…
Tidemark Aims at Mobile Users with Cloud EPM Apps
Redwood City, Calif.-based Tidemark today announced new enterprise performance management (EPM) applications aimed at bringing the company’s financial planning, operational…