Salesforce Acquires Assistly for Customer Service
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) announced late today that it has acquired Assistly, a cloud-based customer service help desk, in…
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Oracle Grows Software Business, Moves Away from x86 Hardware
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is continuing to grow its software business while moving away from commodity x86 hardware. Oracle…
SAP Acquires Crossgate for Business Social Networking
Looking to provide customers with options to connect with their business partners, SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced plans…
Big Money for Big Data and Mobile Business Intelligence
Privately owned Opera Solutions and MeLLmo Inc. are the latest business intelligence companies to receive investment funding to…
SAP Unveils Smart Meter, Profitability Apps for HANA In-Memory Analytics
At SAP TechEd 2011 in Las Vegas today, SAP (NYSE: SAP) unveiled two new solutions built on its…
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Gets SAP Blessing
There is now a new choice for those looking to deploying SAP applications on Linux. Red Hat (NYSE:…
Microsoft Ships Dynamics AX 2012 ERP
Microsoft this week released the latest update to its Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning (ERP) package to general…
SAP to Acquire Right Hemisphere for 3-D Visualization Software
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced plans to acquire Right Hemisphere, a provider of visual enterprise solutions, to help…
Rocky Economy Drives Interest in Work Force Analytics
Back in July, I wrote a post suggesting CIOs could provide business value by working with human resources professionals.…
Salesforce.com Invests in ERP, Supply Chain
Partner announcements at this week’s Dreamforce conference show that cloud CRM leader Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is keenly aware…
IBM Targets Risk Analytics with Two Acquisitions
IBM (NYSE: IBM) made a pair of acquisitions this week aimed at bolstering its fast-growing business analytics practice.…
Salesforce Gets Social and Mobile
At its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco today, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) unveiled a number new products and features,…
Shift from Reporting to Analysis Requires Asking the Right Questions
It used to be so much simpler to hire a data analyst. You looked for someone who knew…
Workday 14 Offers Embedded Intelligence for Business Processes
Workday Inc., a SaaS-based enterprise solution provider for human resources, payroll and financial management, has announced that all…
Salesforce Stays Strong Despite Global Turmoil
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) late Thursday reported another strong quarter and said it sees no signs of a slowdown…
Microsoft Has an Office 365 Outage
Portions of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud computing suite were down for several hours in the U.S, including some…
Microsoft to Release Hadoop Connectors for SQL Server, Parallel Data Warehouse
In the age of big data, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) says it is moving forward with plans to help…
SAP Expands Business ByDesign ERP with New Feature Pack
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced availability of its second release this year of the SAP Business ByDesign ERP…
SAP Under Attack at Black Hat
How secure is SAP (NYSE: SAP)? That’s a question that security researcher Alexander Polyakov set out to answer…
Business Intelligence Vendors Put BI in the Hands of Apple iPad Users
With more than 28 million iPads sold since its initial release in April 2010, Apple has been the…
Oracle Builds Data Warehousing and Analytics for Financial Services
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) says its financial business intelligence, risk management and analytics platform, Oracle Financial Services Data Warehouse,…
Oracle Boosts CRM Portfolio with InQuira Acquisition
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is set to boost its customer relationship management (CRM) and cross-channel customer support offerings with…
SAP and Google Partner for Geospatial Business Intelligence
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today announced a partnership with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to integrate Google Maps, Earth and Street…
SAP Looks to Partners for Mobility Boost
I’ve been hitting the tablet angle for business intelligence pretty hard, writing about it several times in the…
SAP Sets Sights on Mobile Enterprise Apps
Building on last year’s acquisition of Sybase, SAP (NYSE: SAP) is increasing its focus on making its enterprise…
MicroStrategy BI Cloud Platform Connects Facebook with Enterprises
Business intelligence (BI) software provider MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) has introduced its cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and announced a new…
Oracle Releases New Version of User Productivity Kits for IT Project Management
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced a new version of its Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) to help organizations…
Microsoft’s Project Daytona Takes It into the Big Data Space
Microsoft announced a set of tools and services built around the Azure platform that will allow researchers to…
HUD’s CIO Understands Importance of Data
In May, I wrote about how data-driven decision making was far from a mainstream practice despite its obvious benefits.…
Microsoft Research Debuts ‘Daytona’ Azure Analytics Tools
Microsoft this week announced a set of tools for its Windows Azure public cloud computing platform meant to…
California ISO Leverages Location-based Solution for Power Grid Management
California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), which manages about 85 percent of California’s power load, has incorporated Space-Time…
Oracle Enhances Business Intelligence with Environmental Accounting and Reporting
In an effort to help organization track greenhouse emissions and sustainability, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has introduced Oracle Environmental…
Avaya Integrates Social Media with Sales and Customer Support
Avaya has announced Avaya Social Media Manager to inject social media in customer service agents’ desktops. Avaya’s Social…
OpenText Continues Push in BPM Market with Global 360 Acquisition
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX) has acquired process and case management solution provider Global 360 Holding Corporation for approximately $260…
Omniture Co-Founder Launches New Business Intelligence Venture
Omniture co-founder and former CEO Josh James has launched a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture, Domo. Domo claims to…
Microsoft Plans New CRM, ERP Releases
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) released a few details at this week’s Worldwide Partner Conference of some upcoming CRM and…
SAS Analytics Helps Organizations Search and Manage Big Data
A new business analytics software release from SAS is geared to help enterprise organizations simplify big data management…
Oracle Ratchets Up Cloud CRM Battle with CRM On Demand
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today unveiled the latest version of Oracle CRM On Demand, ratcheting up competition in a…
MicroStrategy Unveils Tool for Mobile Business Intelligence Apps
Business intelligence software provider MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has announced the general availability of MicroStrategy 9.2.1, which includes a…
CRM Biggest Market for Software as a Service (SaaS)
In a new report, Gartner says worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is expected to grow 21…
Amazon Bets Big on Big Data Startup
Amazon led the latest round of funding for analytic database vendor ParAccel. Figures were not disclosed, but Amazon…
Sybase IQ Boosts Business Analytics with MPP Technology
SAP’s Sybase unit has announced the release of version 15.3 of the Sybase IQ columnar database, powered by…
Starbucks Brews up Business Case for Mobile BI
It’s only been a few weeks since I wrote about the growing buzz for mobile business intelligence, particularly when…
Twitter Acquires Social Media Analytics Company
Twitter has acquired social media analytics company BackType to help business users mine social media data for business…
SAP Aims ERP at Small Businesses
SAP (NYSE: SAP) said it will better meet the needs of the smallest businesses with new hosted subscription…
CA Integrates Project Management with Salesforce Chatter
CA (NASDAQ: CA) has expanded its Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution by incorporating collaboration capabilities with Salesforce.com…
Business Intelligence Market Led by SAP, IBM and Oracle
According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Business Intelligence Tools Tracker, the worldwide business intelligence (BI) market generated more than…
Microsoft Office 365 Is Also for the Enterprise
Microsoft announced general availability of its next-generation online suite at an event in New York on Tuesday. Although…
Actuate Adds Hadoop to Open Source Business Intelligence
Actuate (NASDAQ: BIRT) has announced support and services for Hadoop and MapReduce in the new release of BIRT…
Oracle’s Software, Database Sales Drive Growth
Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) software business remained strong in its most recent quarter, but hardware sales came in shy…