Former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra Keeps Disrupting, at Salesforce.com
When Vivek Kundra resigned from his job as the first-ever federal CIO in June, he accepted a plum…
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SAP Reports Best Financials in 40-Year History
SAP AG is locked in a battle with rival Oracle for the hearts, minds and checkbooks of business-management…
Birst Wants to Democratize Big Data
Organizations of all sizes, not just large enterprises, have growing stores of data. Until now, however, Birst CEO…
IBM Adds Resources to Social Business Initiative
IBM sees social networking capabilities as a massive opportunity that can help organizations transform their business operations. Big…
Oracle’s Big Data Powered by Cloudera’s Hadoop
Big Data startup Cloudera is getting a big vote of confidence from Oracle. Oracle today announced the availability of the…
Tangerine Software Tool Adds Business Intelligence Capabilities to Sage ERP X3
Tangerine Software, a systems integrator that provides ERP and business intelligence solutions to North American companies, today introduced…
VC Funds Flowing to Social CRM Companies
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the venture capital market has cooled considerably in the past…
Social CRM Provider Nimble Attracts Big-name Investors for Seed Round
A sure-fire way for a software company to earn a little media buzz is by attracting big-name investors.…
Infor Gearing Up for Growth in 2012
In a recent interview with EnterpriseAppsToday, Computer Economics President Frank Scavo said much of the current ERP investment…
Oracle Earnings Disappoint Market, Ellison Unfazed
Oracle is continuing to grow both its software and its hardware business, though not quite as much as…
GlobalOne Goes Vertical with Cloud CRM Solutions for Financial Services
GlobalOne LLC, a company that provides consulting, systems integration and application development services, recently rolled out a solution…
Salesforce.com Enters HCM Space with Rypple Acquisition
Seeking to get its foot in the door of the human capital management (HCM) space, Salesforce.com Friday signed…
IBM Buys Supply Chain Analytics Firm Emptoris
IBM is on a roll. After announcing it would acquire cloud-based commerce analytics software firm DemandTec last week,…
Birst Aims for Analytics Sweet Spot with In-Memory Database
While a growing number of vendors are introducing in-memory solutions to help companies get more bang for their…
SAP Makes Social Analysis Play with NetBase Agreement
With both Oracle and Salesforce.com making moves into social media analytics with recent acquisitions, it’s not surprising to…
IBM Snaps Up DemandTec for Cloud-Based Commerce Analytics
Seeking to beef up its Smarter Commerce initiative with cloud-based analytics, IBM Thursday moved to acquire San Mateo,…
Oracle Updates JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools
Oracle’s OpenWorld event was a coming-out party for the ERP and CRM giant’s Fusion platform, which Oracle CEO…
JasperSoft Advances Business Intelligence for Big Data
Open source business intelligence provider JasperSoft is among the many software vendors looking to help companies derive value from…
SAP to Acquire SuccessFactors in $3.4 Billion Deal
ERP market leader SAP AG on Saturday announced that its SAP America subsidiary would acquire cloud-based human capital…
JackBe Makes Business Intelligence Self-Service
Despite all of the talk about self-service business intelligence, Chris Warner, VP of marketing for business intelligence software…
Salesforce Launches Enterprise Social Marketing Cloud Suite
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is extending the social enterprise to marketing with the release of its Radian6 Social Marketing…
HP Combines Autonomy and Vertica for Big Data
HP (NYSE: HPQ) is harnessing the technologies of recent acquisitions, Autonomy and Vertica, in its newly expanded Information…
Will IBM Watson Transform Analytics?
Business intelligence and analytics software is the most widely used technology among more than 4,000 information technology (IT)…
Salesforce.com Tumbles on Billings Concerns
Despite revenue and earnings per share (EPS) that came in well ahead of expectations, the share price of…
TenDigits Puts Microsoft Dynamics CRM on Android Smartphones and Tablets
TenDigits Software has announced availability of a version 5.0 of its MobileAccess mobility platform that provides all mobile…
Salesforce Buys Model Metrics for Social, Mobile Cloud
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is acquiring Model Metrics, a mobile and social cloud consulting services company. The cloud CRM…
TIBCO Adds Social Collaboration to Spotfire 4.0 Business Intelligence Platform
TIBCO Software (NASDAQ: TIBX) has announced a new version of its business intelligence platform, Spotfire 4.0. The latest…
SAP Unveils In-Memory Data Warehouse, Mobile Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled a range of new solutions spanning business intelligence, in-memory analytics, data warehousing and…
Salesforce Launches Do.com Project Management Service
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has unveiled a new task and project management service based on the company’s acquisition of…
Pentaho Business Analytics Gets an In-Memory Boost
Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho is advancing its capabilities with new in-memory features. The Pentaho Business…
SAP Business One ERP Update Extends CRM for Small Businesses
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has unveiled version 8.82 of the SAP Business One ERP application, an on-premise and hosted…
IBM Brings Big Data Analytics to the Cloud, iPad
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced that its Hadoop-based data processing and analytics platform, InfoSphere BigInsights, is available on…
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Q4 2011 Service Update Released
Last spring, Microsoft announced that, beginning this fall, it would start to release updates for its Dynamics Customer…
Oracle Buys RightNow for Cloud Customer Service
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced plans to acquire cloud-based customer service provider RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW) for $1.5…
NetSuite Updates OneWorld Cloud ERP
Cloud ERP vendor NetSuite has a new version its cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for global companies,…
Oracle Buys Endeca for Unstructured Business Intelligence
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced plans to acquire Endeca Technologies, adding to its unstructured data management, ecommerce and…
SAP, Salesforce Invest in Box Cloud Collaboration Service
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and SAP (NYSE: SAP) are among the investors in an $81 million funding round for…
QlikTech Makes Business Intelligence Social, Mobile
Using social decision-making tools to improve the business discovery process for business intelligence users is the focus of…
IBM Evolves from On Demand to SmartCloud
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is rolling out a new set of SmartCloud services and software, providing new opportunities for…
Cisco Touts Social CRM Call Center Success
In the year since Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) added social CRM and analytics to its contact center software,…
IBM Adds Analytics to Business Processes
Data is at the root of good decision making, but how do you get the right data in…
Oracle Launches Cloud Platform for CRM, HR
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is now a cloud vendor. The Oracle Public Cloud was officially announced at OpenWorld, providing…
Oracle Adds Call Center, Marketing to CRM as Salesforce Rivalry Heats Up
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has unveiled new call center and marketing features for its cloud CRM service – just…
Oracle Speeds Up Business Intelligence, CRM and ERP
The 45,000 attendees at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco were served up a program rich…
Oracle Exalytics Aims for Business Intelligence at the Speed of Thought
Business analytics at the speed of thought? That’s the pitch that Oracle CEO Larry Ellision made at the…
MicroStrategy Offers Free SaaS-Based Business Intelligence Service
MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) hopes to attract new users of its business intelligence software with the public beta launch…
JasperSoft Makes Business Intelligence Mobile
Jaspersoft is expanding its business intelligence software for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The Jaspersoft 4.2 release also provides…
SAP Lets Partners Share Custom Business Intelligence Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has launched a new partner and reseller program that the enterprise software giant says will…
Vision Critical Unveils Customer Experience Management Platform
Technology and research firm Vision Critical has unveiled its Customer Experience Management (CEM) platform, designed to automate the…
Salesforce.com Winning Enterprise Software Deals: Analysts
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is “winning the hearts, minds (and wallets) of enterprise software buyers,” and not just in…