Downstream Segments Drive Business Intelligence Software Growth
Research conducted by Technavio reveals that the global business intelligence software market is expected to grow at a…
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CRM Software Spending to Show Largest Increase
A recent Gartner survey Shows that customer relationship management (CRM) software is expected to see the largest increase…
Integrating Business intelligence in the Cloud
Moving business intelligence and analytics applications to the cloud (off-premise) can make financial sense but it also carries…
Socialtext Brings Social Networking to Corporate Intranets
How popular is your company’s intranet? Socialtext has added new features to its enterprise social networking system that…
Microsoft Announces New Resources for Dynamics
Microsoft Corp.(Nasdaq: MSFT) has recently announced new resources to help improve productivity and save Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource…
Social CRM Tips: Understand Two-way Interactions
Understanding that two-way interactions can have an impact on potential customers’ readiness to buy and on their view…
Analysts Predict Data Warehousing Will Embrace Analytics
Gartner analysts are predicting that 2011 will be an inflection point for the data warehousing market. As noted…
Openbravo Open Source ERP Offering Upgraded
Openbravo has released the new version of its open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. As noted in…
Salesforce.com Beats the Street, Takes Shots at Microsoft CRM
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) posted better than expected quarterly results late today, sending the company’s shares 8 percent higher…
SAS Acquires Assetlink
Business analytics software provider, SAS, is acquiring Assetlink, a marketing resource management (MRM) company. As mentioned in the…
PrairieFyre Software Releases Contact Center for Microsoft Lync
PrairieFyre Software has released PrairieFyre Contact Center for Microsoft Lync. As noted in this news release on the…
The Future of Social Media Metrics
Social media challenges the way businesses operate today. In this Smart Data Collective interview with Don Springer, CEO…
SAP Overhauls Its Business Intelligence Portfolio
SAP today rolled out version 4 of its business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) products after…
A Look at CRM Communication Channels
Communication is the key to the success of customer relationship management and, according to CRM Buyer, it lays…
Vertica Delivers Anywhere Mobile Business Analytics
Vertica Systems has announced a technology alliance with MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), with certification of MicroStrategy 9 on…
Dell, Microsoft To Deliver Business Intelligence for Community Hospitals
Dell and Microsoft have announced a plan to collaborate to deliver an analytics, informatics, Business Intelligence (BI) and…
Electronic Customer Relationship Management Analytics
Following an in-depth look at the significant role of data integration in electronic customer relationship management (e-CRM) analytics,…
Novell Expands Linux Availability for SAP
Novell is enhancing its partnership with SAP with an expanded Linux offering for SAP applications. Josh Dorfman, director…
Social CRM Spending Expected to Top $1B
Social customer relationship management (CRM) is an emerging trend in the enterprise 2.0 space. This Fast Forward Blog…
Will Computers Rival Poeple for Knowledge-Based Jobs?
A recent “experiment” on the Conan show had a version of IBM’s Watson computer try its hand as…
Business Intelligence Market to Steadily Grow
According to Gartner, this year will see the business intelligence (BI) market grow by 9.7 percent. This CRN…
Leveraging Social Data for CRM
Online user generated content has created an explosion of big data along with big opportunities and problems for…
Bad BI Can Send Projects Off the Rails
I’ve got a working list of eight factors that can derail IT projects. My list: Lack of effective governance…
Making Business Intelligence Infrastructure Go Faster
One of the most daunting challenge most IT organizations face is a never-ending list of requests for business…
Common CRM Obstacles
One of the misconceptions that has bedeviled CRM has been the idea that it is simply a technology…
IBM Says Watson Jeopardy Win is Just the Beginning
After defeating human competition in two Jeopardy! quiz show matches, IBM’s Watson computer is ready to move on…
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Ready for On-premise or Hosting
A month after Microsoft released Dynamics CRM 2011 Online for its own cloud services environments, Microsoft announced it…
SAP StreamWork Offers OpenSocial Support
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has announced support for OpenSocial, available to users of the SAP StreamWork application. OpenSocial…
Oracle Announces Health Care Analytics App
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced its latest addition to its business intelligence software suite designed for health care…
Microsoft Claims Ex-Manager Stole CRM Cloud Computing Plans
In a Washington State Superior Court, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has accused a Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) recruit of stealing…
BPM: The Future of Enterprise Collaboration
Author Ann All offers her views on the future of enterprise collaboration in this article presented on IT…
Constant Contact Combines Marketing, Social CRM with Bantam Live Acquisition
Email and online marketing firm Constant Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT) is adding social CRM to its product lineup with…
Salesforce.com Needs Bigger Cloud Computing Presence
Cloud computing presents a long-term opportunity for Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) as IT departments leverage cloud-based software instead of…
Microsoft Needs Apps for Cloud Share
Information Week calls Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) business applications strategy a fragmented and incoherent mish-mash of small- and midsized-business…
Open-Xchange Partners For Salesforce Email Integration
Open-source collaboration solutions provider Open-Xchange and RAE Internet have recently partnered to integrate Open-Xchange email with Salesforce (NYSE:…
CompanionLink Offers Support for Highrise CRM
CompanionLink Software is now supporting Highrise web-based CRM manager from 37signals. The compatibility with CompanionLink provides a direct…
Claraview Expands Business Intelligence Offering
In a press release presented on the company’s website, Claraview has announced the expansion of its business intelligence…
HP to Acquire Vertica
HP has agreed to buy Vertica, a database management and analytics software firm, for an undisclosed sum, reports…
MetraNet Billing Available for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
MetraTech has announced an integration initiative with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. As noted by the company in this…
Kognitio Announces Faster Data Analytics with Pablo
Kognitio has introduced Pablo, its new tool for speeding the performance of business intelligence and data warehousing applications.…
HP Acquires Vertica Real Time Analytics
HP has made a move in the business analytics space with the announcement of a signed a definitive…
Samsung Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard Launched
Samsung SDS has announced the launch of the Samsung Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard, expanding its portfolio of…
HP Snags Analytics Player Vertica
Computing giant HP on Monday announced the acquisition of Vertica, a privately held firm specializing in business intelligence…
ISC Introduces the Open Intel Project
The MapDotNet Team at ISC has recently announced a new open source project called Open Intel. According to…
The Business Benefits of Crowdsourcing
As reported on V3.co.uk, a novel crowdsourcing system has reaped unexpected benefits from mining its customer’s ideas for…
NetSuite Announces NetSuite for Dummies
NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N) has recently announced the release of NetSuite for Dummies, a new book authored by…
Business Intelligence on the iPad
With Gartner predicting that 33% of business intelligence functionality will be consumed on mobile devices by 2013, it…
Samsung, SAP Deliver BI to Android Devices
Samsung and SAP are partnering to bring mobile business intelligence to Android devices. The joint development leverages SAP’s…
Enterprise Apps: Transforming the Business
Mobile devices—from smartphones to laptops—have broken down and disposed of the traditional office cubicle. As stated in this…
Blackboard Offers Data Analytic Solution for Education
Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) has announced Blackboard Analytics, a business intelligence solution for higher education. As noted in…