Rootstock Software, FinancialForce.com Partner on Supply Chain Solution
Rootstock Software, a provider of cloud manufacturing and supply chain applications, has teamed with FinancialForce.com, a company that…
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Partnerpedia Intros New App Management Options for BYOD Workplaces
As Enterprise Apps Today recently reported, enterprise application stores are grabbing the attention of companies trying to address…
Oracle Snaps up Vitrue’s Social Marketing Cloud
In a sure sign the social CRM market is booming, Oracle today announced it is acquiring cloud-based social…
SAP Bolsters Cloud Business with $4.3B Ariba Buy
SAP made quite a splash when it poured billions into acquiring cloud human capital management (HCM) provider SuccessFactors in December.…
Salesforce Pumps up Chatter’s Enterprise Collaboration Capabilities
Salesforce is adding real-time chat and screensharing functionality to its Chatter platform with offerings called, fittingly enough, Chatter…
Zendesk Partners with Microsoft on Dynamics CRM Integration
Zendesk, a provider of cloud-based contact center software, announced a new two-way integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM that…
LiveOps Adds Facebook Integration to Social Contact Center Software
Social media and contact centers are like the peanut butter and chocolate of the enterprise – a once-unusual…
Salesforce CEO Bullish about Year Ahead, Scornful of Competition
Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) reported first quarter fiscal 2013 financial results late Thursday that paint a rosy picture for the…
Xactly Releases Sales Performance Apps for iPad
It’s no surprise that mobile CRM applications for sales people are in demand, given they spend so much…
SAP Taps into Visualization Trend with Desktop Business Intelligence Tool
Data visualization is one of the hottest trends in business intelligence, with experts saying it can help take…
Opera Solutions Brings Predictive Analytics to SAP HANA
SAP’s HANA ecosystem gets a little bigger today as Opera Solutions revealed that its Signal Hub tech and…
Customer Service Gets More Social with Zoho Support
Consumers are increasingly taking to Twitter and Facebook to voice their customer service quibbles. It only makes sense…
Spinnaker Support Now Provides Maintenance for SAP Apps
Do companies with aging applications from Oracle and SAP want to pay those vendors for support and maintenance?…
Hortonworks, Kognitio Partner to Drive Hadoop Adoption
As the popularity of Apache Hadoop continues to increase, so do the partnerships for Hortonworks, a provider of…
Spotfire 4.5 Leverages Tibco Architecture for Big Data Analysis
When it comes to dealing with Big Data, software architecture matters, said Lou Jordano, director of product marketing…
IBM Gathers Tealeaf in Analytics Buying Streak
You don’t have to be a fortune teller to see that business analytics figures prominently in IBM’s future.…
Jive Updates Platform with Seamless Sharing, Big Data Brawn
Jive launched its revamped social business platform today, bringing in its wake new features aimed at not only…
Birst Grabs $26M in Financing
Analytics software provider Birst has completed a $26 million investment led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors including Hummer…
Mobile App Analyzes Best Customer Service Options
There appears to be growing interest in giving consumers more options to use their smartphones and other mobile…
Intuit Gains Expanded CRM Presence with $420 Million Demandforce Purchase
Intuit is snapping up San Francisco-based Demandforce, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) CRM provider, for $423.5 million in an all-cash deal.…
Pentaho 4.5 Visualizes Big Data Analytics
Big Data is all about finding the needle in the haystack. One of the ways to make that…
IBM Seeks Big Data Domination with Vivisimo Buy, Cloudera Support
When it comes to growing its Big Data analytics portfolio, IBM is showing no signs of letting up.…
Yammer Positions Its Social Software as Intranet Replacement
Streamlining communications and making it easier to find information are fairly obvious use cases for social software in…
SugarCRM Credits Open Source for Growth, Intros Software Updates
SugarCRM’s open source roots are showing at its SugarCon conference, taking place this week in San Francisco. The…
Teradata Debuts In-Memory System for SAS Analytics
Today, during the SAS Global Forum in Orlando, Fla., data warehousing specialist Teradata launched a new Big Data analytics system…
W2O Group Buys Ravel in Big Week for Big Data Startups
Little guys that tackle Big Data are having, well, a big week. W2O Group announced that it had acquired…
eXo Software Promises Social Intranets Made Simple
Writing for IT Business Edge, Mike Vizard in February highlighted the release of version 3.5 of the eXo…
IBM Raises 2012 Expectations as Software Biz Booms
IBM reported first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday, stating revenue of $24.7 billion, a 1 percent year-over-year…
10gen Aims to Increase Enterprise Adoption of MongoDB NoSQL Database
One way for organizations to deal with Big Data challenges is by using a NoSQL database such as…
Genesys Links Mobile Apps with Contact Center Agents
Genesys, a provider of customer service and contact center software and services with more than 2,000 customers in…
IBM Acquires Varicent for Sales Data Analytics
IBM today announced that it is acquiring Toronto-based Varicent, a maker of incentive compensation and sales performance management (SPM)…
SAP Acquires Syclo for Mobile App Momentum
Sanjay Poonen, the head of SAP’s mobility division and president the Global Solutions division, took the stage during…
SAP Unveils Ambitious Plans for Database Market
The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to…
CDC Releases Pivotal CRM for iPad
Further proof today that the iPad has indeed changed the customer relationship management (CRM) market came as CDC Software announces…
arcplan Enterprise 7.2 Ready for Big Data
arcplan, a provider of business intelligence and planning solutions, is introducing arcplan Enterprise 7.2, a new version of…
Dell to Make Old Apps New Again, and Cloudier Too, with Make Technologies Buy
The ink was hardly dry on the Clerity deal before Dell whipped out its checkbook again, this time to acquire…
inContact Refreshes Cloud Contact Center Software
inContact, a provider of cloud contact center software and contact center agent optimization tools, earlier this week announced…
SugarCRM Completes $33M Financing Round
SugarCRM has completed a $33 million equity and debt financing round, which was led by New Enterprise Associates…
Sonoma Partners Introduces Mobile Dynamics CRM App for iPad
Microsoft Dynamics CRM consultancy Sonoma Partners is introducing a Mobile Sales Kit application for the Apple iPad. According…
Oracle Outlines Business Analytics Battle Plan
Oracle is on a mission to claim the Big Data business analytics crown and counter increasing competition from…
Bluewolf, Bunchball Partner to Help Businesses Become Social Enterprises
Business consulting firm Bluewolf has partnered with gamification specialist Bunchball on a new offering, called #GoingSocial that the…
Dell Buys Clerity in Cloud Applications Push
Today, Dell made a second acquisition in as many days — see the Dell-Wyse deal — by taking Chicago-based Clerity Solutions off…
SAP Expanding Predictive Analytics Strategy
Traditional business intelligence is increasingly converging with predictive analytics as companies focus less on analyzing historical data and…
IBM Stresses Simplification with DB2 Update
With lots of new options for storing and analyzing data available to companies, it’s not surprising IBM is…
Aktana Launches New Name, New Sales Intelligence Software
Aktana, a startup that used to be called IncentAlign, is introducing new software designed to help field sales…
Host Analytics Intros Business Intelligence Tool for Finance Pros
Host Analytics, a provider of cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) software, has introduced Host Analytics Business Analytics, a…
Jive Brings Social, Gamification to Corporate Intranets
Just weeks after diving into the social CRM market, Jive Software today launched its new Social Intranet Solution for…
Knowledge Workers Find Sales Analytics Lacking
Just 19 percent of knowledge workers are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their current solution for sales force…
Meeting Challenge of Monitoring Big Data in the Cloud
Modern Big Data application architectures are all about distributed development and resources. When it comes to running apps,…
Web Chat, Speech Analytics Hottest Contact Center Technologies for 2012
Web chat and speech analytics are the two contact center technologies that will experience the highest growth rates…