IBM Buys Social HCM Specialist Kenexa for $1.3B
Big Blue today announced it is acquiring Kenexa, a social-enabled, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) specialist, for approximately $1.3…
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Benioff Teases Dreamforce Releases as Salesforce Revenues Grow
Sales are still on an upward trajectory for Salesforce.com. The software-as-a-service cloud application provider reported fiscal second quarter…
Swedish ERP Company Sets Its Sights on North American SMBs
There’s a new ERP kid in town, Sweden’s Jeeves Information Systems. The company, which has offices in France, Germany,…
Big Data Startup Sqrrl Raises $2M, Focuses on Security Challenges
Sqrrl, a Big Data startup that specializes in software based on Apache Accumulo, an open source data storage…
Zoho Campaigns Brings Email Marketing to Cloud CRM
Zoho’s cloud-based CRM platform is branching out into markets pioneered by MailChimp and Constant Contact. The company this…
Salesforce Embarks on Community-Building for Social Enterprises
Salesforce.com is betting the path to prosperity for social enterprises requires taking a social-enabled, community-based approach. The cloud-based…
Tableau Adds MapR Support for Hadoop-Powered Analytics
Business intelligence software maker Tableau is broadening its reach in Big Data analytics with a newly-announced version of its namesake…
To Socialize SharePoint, NewsGator Goes on the Lookout
What Yammer acquisition? cNewsGator is signaling there’s plenty of room for other social enterprise players on Microsoft’s court…
Freeborders Launches Program to Help Businesses Migrate SAP Environments to Cloud
Freeborders Inc., a consulting company with an SAP practice among its products and services, last week introduced the…
Yammer Adds Sentiment to Social with Kanjoya
Yammer is teaming with Kanjoya, an emotion-aware sentiment analysis specialist, to help organizations draw insights into what workforces are really thinking…
Salesforce’s Do.com Gets Social for Contact and Sales Management
Do.com, a social task management and collaboration service known as Manymoon when it was acquired by Salesforce, today unveiled…
Oracle’s CRM On Demand Rolls on with Release 20
Oracle hit a major milestone today with Release 20 of its cloud-based On Demand CRM platform. With this latest version,…
Birst Brings Data Warehouse to the Desktop
Just like Las Vegas, what happens in the data warehouse has generally stayed in the data warehouse, with…
SAP Hacked at Black Hat (Again)
LAS VEGAS — SAP applications could potentially be at risk from an emerging type of exploit known as…
QuestBack Intros Listen & Act Social Engagement Tool
While early “social listening” software focused largely on simply monitoring customer communications, a new breed of applications promise…
HANA, Cloud Uptake Drive Record Q2 Revenues for SAP
SAP today announced its “best ever second quarter” based on software revenues that crossed the €1 billion mark,…
Adaptive Planning Introduces Data Visualization App
Scores of software companies are adding data visualization capabilities to their products, confirming that visualization is one of…
Microsoft Addresses Security Concerns about Cloud CRM Data
Users of cloud CRM software and other cloud-based apps are understandably concerned about protecting their customer data. While…
Microsoft Closes Yammer Acquisition
That was fast. During its Q4 2012 earnings call, Microsoft said it had completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of…
Big Data-Fueled Social Startup 33Across Raises $13 Million
33Across, a New York City-based startup at the intersection of two of the biggest trends in tech —…
Ubuntu Linux Brings Web Apps to the Desktop
In a world where applications are increasingly delivered in cloud-based models, the line between native desktop and Web-based…
Actiance’s Salesforce Connector Helps Monetize Social Media Interactions
Companies are increasingly communicating with their customers via social channels like Facebook and Twitter in addition to more…
Alteryx Embarks on User-Friendly Analytics Software
Business intelligence software provider Alteryx is setting out to help businesses derive value from ballooning stores of digital information even…
SAP Analytic App Helps Reveal Supply Chain’s Hidden Costs
As companies add channels, services and stakeholders, it becomes increasingly difficult to get an accurate view of their…
Oracle Grabs Involver, Its Third Social CRM Startup in Two Months
It’s shaping up to be the spring and summer of social CRM acquisitions, several of them made by…
Kana Bolsters Customer Experience Management with Ciboodle Buy
Companies are experiencing challenges in offering effective customer experience management across multiple channels, including contact centers and social…
Salesforce Buying Social CRM Startup GoInstant
Salesforce.com’s social CRM buying spree continues unabated with the acquisition of Halifax-based GoInstant for over $70 million in cash, according to…
SAP Offers Partner Incentives to Further Boost HANA Adoption
Enterprise software giant SAP mentioned some impressive adoption numbers for HANA, its in-memory data platform, during a press…
Attensity Pipeline Powers Social Media Analytics
As recent surveys show, consumers are increasingly using social channels like Facebook and Twitter to resolve customer service…
SAP: We Love Linux
BOSTON – With its large portfolio of proprietary applications, SAP is a software company few folks would associate…
Spotlight on SharePoint as Microsoft Snaps up Yammer
It’s official. In an announcement that surprised no one, Microsoft confirmed that it is acquiring Yammer, a social enterprise…
MemSQL Rides In-Memory Rocket, SQL Legacy for Big Data
San Francisco-based MemSQL released a new database that the startup says will give companies struggling with Big Data the benefits…
IBM Puts Focus on Predictive Analytics with Analytical Decision Management
IBM is delivering new predictive analytics software aimed at providing businesses with tools that enable instantaneous, insight-driven decisions…
ERP to Top Enterprise App Spending in 2012
It’s shaping up to be a good year for enterprise application makers according to a forecast released by…
SUSE Advances Linux for SAP Applications
SAP applications run on Linux, and in particular they run on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). SAP and…
SunView Unveils ITIL-as-a-Service Software
Bigger isn’t better when it comes to implementing the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), a framework of IT service…
Report: Microsoft to Acquire Yammer for $1B
News that Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire San Francisco-based Yammer for approximately $1 billion lit up the Twittersphere…
Kognitio Ups Hadoop Integration Ante
Kognitio has introduced a solution it says will help companies reduce the amount of time required to run…
VMware Open Source Project Serengeti brings Hadoop to Virtualization
The open source Hadoop project is getting a real boost today from virtualization vendor VMware. Getting Hadoop up…
Teradata Gives Business Analysts Direct Access to Big Data
Open source Apache Hadoop offers companies an inexpensive way to store the increasingly massive amounts of information they…
Actuate, Pervasive Team for Big Data Visualizations
Actuate is not done forging alliances as it looks to align its open source BIRT business intelligence platform…
Jacada Says Mobile App Will Promote Self-service Via Smartphone
While overall growth in the mobile phone market is slowing, recent IDC research shows smartphones are still experiencing…
Cloudera Updates Enterprise Hadoop
As demand for Big Data technologies grows, one technology has stood head and shoulders above all others –…
Oracle Puts Cloud to Work for New Services Offering
While Oracle has been talking up its cloud plans, most of the discussion has centered around how it…
Revolution Pumps up Performance in Big Data Analytics App
Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical…
Oracle Buys Collective Intellect in Cloudy Social CRM Play
Oracle revealed today that it is acquiring Boulder, Colo.-based Collective Intellect, a cloud-based provider of social intelligence services, for…
Google BigQuery Makes Big Data More Accessible, Says French Startup
While Big Data has the potential to revolutionize business intelligence, it will first need to become considerably less…
Salesforce Expands Social Media Platform with Buddy Media Acquisition
In the modern world of marketing, social media is a channel that cannot be ignored. It’s a message…
Zurmo Open Source CRM Beta Adds Gamification
Zurmo, an open source CRM project, hit a big milestone with the recent release of the Beta version…
Huddle Snags $24M, Aims at SharePoint
Alastair Mitchell, co-founder and CEO of Huddle, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, pegs his company…