CRM Software: Good, but Not Enough
Here’s a frightening fact: More than 400 of the companies that were in the Fortune 500 in 1955…
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Yammer vs. Jive vs. Chatter: Social Software Reviews from Real Users
By Russell Rothsteinfounder and CEO, IT Central Station Buying an enterprise social platform can be a challenge. There…
No Hadoop Expert? No Problem
Anecdotal evidence and analyst firm surveys suggest a big surge in demand for Hadoop experts. In fact, the…
Review: Data Stewardship Platform Eases ERP Migration
With over 17 years of data migration experience and half of their customer base coming from the Fortune…
Big Business Intelligence Vendors Not Satisfying Users
Much of Gartner’s business intelligence (BI) research focuses on customer satisfaction and usability. Two of the biggest takeaways…
AT&T’s Partnership with SAP Sign of Mobile App Future
While many folks have smartphones loaded with mobile apps for personal tasks from vacation planning to just killing…
Beyond Email: 5 Functions Coming to Mobile Apps
Despite all the hype around mobile applications, the predominant functions continue to be organizing business contacts, scheduling, keeping…
Business Intelligence Customer Reviews: Microsoft, SAP, IBM and More
By Russell Rothstein Choosing the best business intelligence tool can be a confusing process. There are dozens of…
Sage Transitions ERP onto the Cloud
Sage has been in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and accounting software business since the 1980s, focusing on…
Mobile CRM’s Momentum Shows No Signs of Slowing
Of all the enterprise apps it makes sense to mobilize, CRM is at the top of the list.…
3 Rules for Data-driven Architecture
At a recent conference, Dave Turek of IBM asserted that the future computing architecture would have data rather…
Can Big Data Breach IT and Marketing Divide?
Earlier this year Gartner analyst Laura McLellan sent some shockwaves through the C-suite with her prediction that chief…
How to Evaluate ERP Software
Many ERP projects are deemed failures because of budget overruns and lengthy implementation delays. Panorama Consulting’s 2013 ERP…
5 Mobile Apps for Sales Pros
It seems that mobile apps are destined to soon become the norm rather than the exception. That is…
How to Choose a Hadoop Distribution
By Michele Nemschoff, MapR Technologies Apache Hadoop has gotten a lot of press, but choosing the right Hadoop…
Mid-Size Business Intelligence Buying Guide
The handful of billion dollar behemoths in the business intelligence space, SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAS, have…
More Social CRM Companies to Watch
The idea of bringing together sales, CRM and social — a trend broadly known as social CRM —…
IT’s Role in Big Data Marketing
Marketing has long prided itself on its ability to produce creative advertising campaigns that win over large groups…
Can Big Data Avoid The Correlation Trap?
As I was at a vendor conference recently that brought this to mind, I will write on something…
Embedded Analytics Catching Fire
For decades now, business intelligence has operated as a distinct application. But that is changing rapidly. There is…
What’s New with 5 Big BI Vendors
The use of business intelligence (BI) software has been skyrocketing in recent years. According to Tom Pringle of…
Reasons to Re-architect to the Cloud
By Mik Lernout When you think of deploying applications to the cloud, what comes to mind? Web and…
9 Social CRM Companies to Watch
Social CRM is a phrase that is getting a growing amount of buzz – despite the fact it…
Marketing Clouds: Salesforce, Oracle, IBM Battle It Out
In a year when software is driving IT spending increases, marketing software is all the rage. You practically…
10 Great Gamified Sites and Apps
Until recently not many folks had heard about business gamification. But that is beginning to change. As reported…
Gamification Boosts Employee Participation, Collaboration
Gamification seeks to take enjoyable aspects of games — fun, play and challenge — and apply them to…
5 Top Tablet Conferencing Apps
As mentioned in an earlier article, tablet-based conferencing is a rapidly growing niche of the Web conferencing market.…
Tablets Boost Web Conferencing Convenience
The enterprise Web conferencing market is enjoying explosive growth – almost 20 percent per year, according to research…
Uniting CRM, Sales and Social Media
For over a decade there has talk about bringing together sales processes and CRM. While progress has been…
Hadoop in the Enterprise: Don’t Overpromise
Increasing numbers of IT shops are considering, and in some cases doing, “Hadoop in the enterprise.” That is,…
7 Cloud ERP Startups to Watch
We recently covered trends affecting the ERP startup space. This time around we profile a few of these…
Business Intelligence Sees Generational Shift: Dresner
In the quarter century he has been following the use of business intelligence (BI) in the enterprise, Howard…
Getting Business Travel Expenses under Control with HCM
All of us complain about the travails of travel, particularly airline travel. Long lines at security, baggage fees,…
HCM No Longer an ERP Afterthought
Human capital management (HCM) software used to be a mere afterthought when it came to enterprise resource planning…
School of Data Science
A growing number of companies find themselves in the market for data scientists. Seventy percent of organizations recently…
4 Barriers to Big Data Success — and Ways to Overcome Them
The good news: At a recent IBM conference on Big Data, users confirmed a growing body of evidence…
Pivotal Aims to Disrupt Cloud, Big Data Analytics
A decade or so back, enterprise applications sat on their own dedicated server. The rule of one app…
Is Cloud-based ERP Inevitable?
In the 1990s enterprise resource planning (ERP) startups were a dime a dozen. But then came a period…
Big Data, Big Opportunities for DBAs
Amid all the talk about Big Data, questions keep popping up about how the database administrator (DBA) fits…
4 Hot Open Source Big Data Projects
It’s difficult to talk about Big Data processing without mentioning Apache Hadoop, the open source Big Data software…
CRM Jumps 12.5 Percent in 2012: Gartner
Customer relationship management (CRM) is taking the enterprise software market by storm. Gartner reported that the market for…
Big Data Boosts Enterprise Software Market in 2012: IDC
The worldwide market for software totaled $342 billion in 2012, a 3.6 percent gain over 2011. However, that…
Using Big Data to Fight Fraud
If it was easy to detect fraud, there wouldn’t be much of it around. But these days, the…
Putting a Social Spin on HCM
Human capital management (HCM) is a complicated enough subject in itself. But add social recruiting into the mix,…
Mobile CRM App Market Set to Explode: Gartner
If it seems that practically all customer relationship management (CRM) software makers are going mobile, that’s because they…
Big Data Success: Focus on Customer, not Cost
A recent Sloan Management Review continuation of their studies of successful Big Data practitioners highlights an often-misunderstood strategy…
5 More Buzz-worthy Big Data Analytics Apps
As we’ve already noted, pairing Big Data with analytics is one of the best ways to derive business…
How Big Data Is Changing Enterprise Applications
There’s no doubt Big Data is changing how companies are able to process and use data. But what’s…
5 Buzz-worthy Big Data Analytics Apps
Big Data and analytics are two of the most dominant business intelligence trends for 2013. So bringing the…
Big Data + SaaS = Better Marketing
Web applications which aggregate vast quantities of publicly available data and turn it into useful information for customers…