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SAS Introduces Visual Analytics for Big Data
In a blog post written last spring, Keith Collins, the chief technology officer of SAS, listed the company’s…
Adobe: Online Marketers Selling Social Traffic Short
Social media efforts can be a tricky proposition. And measuring their effectiveness is even trickier. When it comes…
Microsoft Dynamics ERP Heading to Azure
Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is heading to Azure, the company’s cloud platform, later this year.…
Oracle Earnings Grow; Ellison Blasts SAP
Though some observers had worried Oracle was in trouble after some disappointing second quarter results, Oracle stormed back…
IBM Launches Big Data Analytics for Business
Is your company’s crystal ball clouded by Big Data? That’s the question posed by IBM today as it…
Study: Cloudy Job Forecast Calls for Over a Half Million New IT Jobs
The clouds will rain revenue and jobs over the next five years, according to an SAP-sponsored study (PDF) conducted by…
Axeda Integrates M2M Data with SAP CRM, ERP
Axeda Corporation, a provider of a cloud platform for running and managing machine-to-machine (M2M) transactions, through a partnership…
Pentaho Targets OEMs with Embedded Analytics
Open source business intelligence and analytics vendor Pentaho has built a business around delivering standalone enterprise solutions. It…
Salesforce.com Sends Rypple Across Social Enterprise
Salesforce.com hopes the social hooks it gained by acquiring Rypple late last year will do for its business…
Zendesk Analytics Tool Helps Companies Understand ‘Silent’ Customers
Most help desk software focuses on trying to solve the problems of customers who have already complained or…
IBM’s Watson Takes to Cloud for Big Data
Watson started as an IBM research project that famously ended up clobbering its human competition on “Jeopardy!” a…
Symantec Fights Big Data Sprawl With Data Insight 3.0
Vendors are selling Big Data as a kind of Jedi Knight that adds value to the enterprise through…
SAP Performance Management, Meet HANA
SAP today announced support for its HANA platform from the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) application, version…
Infor Connects ERP with Salesforce.com CRM
Only a few months into its partnership with Salesforce.com, business software provider Infor has released Inforce Everywhere, an…
NetBase Adds New Capabilities to Social Media Monitoring Software
Monitoring social media is a key part of social CRM strategies – which means interest is high in…
Market for Big Data Getting, Well, Big
The market for Big Data solutions will grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015,…
Jive Targets Social CRM Market with Customer Service Solution
As Forrester Research analyst Kate Leggett pointed out in a recent Enterprise Apps Today article about social CRM,…
FinancialForce.com Offers New Collaborative Capabilities in Accounting Software
FinancialForce.com has a strong association with Salesforce.com, thanks to the fact that Salesforce is an investor in the…
SAS Jumps on Hadoop Bandwagon
Confirming the red-hot status of Apache Hadoop, an open source data architecture for processing large data sets, SAS…
SAP Offering More Cloud Choices
SAP has taken knocks for being too slow to market with software-as-a-service applications. In 2008 when SAP slowed…
Backupify Offers ‘Snapshots,’ Piece of Mind for Salesforce.com Data
Cloud-based backup service provider Backupify has introduced Snapshot for Salesforce CRM, a one-time backup and download service for…
MarkLogic Latest to Join Ranks of Hortonworks Hadoop Partners
The partnerships keep coming for Hortonworks, a provider of Hadoop services and support as well as Hadoop-compatible software.…
Hortonworks, Microsoft Team for Hadoop-Excel Support
Hortonworks, a maker of a Hadoop distribution bearing its namesake and a provider of related support and training…
Oracle Enters In-memory Analytics Fray with Exalytics
Oracle this week extended a lifeline for businesses struggling with Big Data. Its Exalytics appliance, which CEO Larry…
Alteryx Adds New Features to ‘Desktop-to-Cloud’ Analytics Software
Alteryx, a company included in Gartner’s 2012 Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant, today introduced Alteryx Strategic Analytics 7.0 at…
Survey: Less than a Third of IT Pros ‘Get’ Big Data
Big data is big news lately, but not all IT professionals are clear on what the term means. According…
Salesforce.com Grows on Big Deals (And Small Ones Too)
The cloud is big business for Salesforce.com. Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2012 results…
Latest Version of OpenERP Includes Social Features
OpenERP, a Belgium-based provider of open source ERP, has announced the release of version 6.1, an upgrade meant…
OnLive Brings Cloud-based Office, Flash Browsing to iPad
While the industry waits for iPad Office apps, one company is taking a different route to getting Microsoft’s…
Visible Technologies Updates Enterprise Social CRM Platform, Adds Solution for SMBs
Visible Technologies, a provider of social media monitoring, analytics and engagement software and services, made two product announcements:…
Oracle Enhances Enterprise Healthcare Analytics with Data Integration Feature
Oracle introduced several enhancements to its Enterprise Healthcare Analytics, a business intelligence and performance management solution designed for…
Persistent Systems Rolls out Analytics Software Optimized for IBM Big Data Platform
Persistent Systems , a provider of outsourced software product development services and an IBM Business Partner, is releasing…
Nimble Gets More Social With New Version of Contact Management Software
Social CRM provider Nimble has launched Nimble 2.0, the latest version of its contact management software. New features…
Pegasystems Updates CPM Software With Social, Mobile Features
Pegasystems, a provider of business process management (BPM) software, has enhanced its Customer Process Manager (CPM) customer service…
Oracle Updates Advanced Analytics with Open Source R
Enterprises can look at their data in many different ways. One of them is by using the open…
Oracle Acquires Taleo for $1.9 Billion
Oracle announced today that it plans to acquire Dublin, Calif.-based Taleo for $1.9 billion, or $46 a share.…
Microsoft Offers CRM on Any Device with Latest Dynamics Update
In the debate over whether to use native clients for mobile development or to use HTML5, Microsoft comes…
Salesforce.com Makes U-Turn on Analytics Pricing
In a dramatic show of both responsiveness and the power of social media, Salesforce.com earlier this week abandoned…
NetSuite Q4 Earnings Show Move Upmarket for SaaS ERP
Software-as-a-service has generally been an easier sell for smaller companies that cannot spare large capital outlays, don’t employ…
Cloud9 Wants to Take Spreadsheets Out of Sales Forecasting
CSO Insight’s 2011 Sales Management Optimization research study found that less than 50 percent of forecasted sales opportunities…
TrackVia Rolls Out New Build-Your-Own App Features
Cloud-based database provider TrackVia just introduced a set of new features that add more collaboration and reporting functionality…
Salesforce.com Intros Social-Focused Help Desk App for SMBs
Aiming to empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to deliver customer support in an increasingly social and mobile…
Pentaho Open Sources Big Data Capabilities with Kettle
Open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho is bringing Big Data transformation capabilities into the open source fold. Pentaho…
SOS Unwraps Cloud-Based Document Sharing Geared to Enterprise
SOS Online Backup on Monday took the wraps off SOS Collaborate Private Cloud, a cloud-based document syncing and…
Canonical Brings Apps to Life on Ubuntu Linux Desktop
At one point or another, every user has struggled with a help button to try and figure out…
IBM Debuts Netezza Analytics Appliance Geared to Retail Industry
Big Data analytics are already a mainstay of ambitious scientific research projects and financial institutions, but now IBM…
Infor Introduces Mobile Platform
When Enterprise Apps Today published its Eight CRM Predictions for 2012 a few weeks ago, the predictions were…
Enkata Updates Architecture for Big Data
Enkata, a provider of cloud-based customer experience analytics and workforce optimization solutions, is seeing the needs of its…
Arcplan Updates Collaborative Business Intelligence Software
IDC recently tapped collaborative decision management as one of three key trends that is driving change in companies’…