CRM, ERP, and Business Intelligence Software

While business travel can seem tortuous, it's a piece of cake compared to managing employee travel expenses. Human capital management (HCM) software can help.

• HCM No Longer an ERP Afterthought
• School of Data Science
• 4 Barriers to Big Data Success -- and Ways to Overcome Them
• Pivotal Aims to Disrupt Cloud, Big Data Analytics
• Is Cloud-based ERP Inevitable?
• Big Data, Big Opportunities for DBAs

Splunk and Hortonworks seek to help businesses more readily put their Big Data stores to productive use. In addition, Hortonworks introduced Microsoft Windows Server support.

• IBM Watson Brings Big Data Smarts to Customer Service
• Alteryx Raises $12M to 'Humanize' Big Data
• G2 Crowd Shakes up Enterprise Software Buying with Peer Reviews
• Jive Delivers Social Inbox with StreamOnce
• SAP Fiori: Consumerization of Enterprise Software Comes to ERP
• IBM Consolidates Analytics Apps with Blue Insight

Paul Mah highlights a number of less obvious criteria for choosing the right enterprise software applications for your business.

• Review: OneDesk Has Centralized Collaboration, Social Media Monitoring
• Workforce Optimization Software Buying Guide
• Review: TeamLab Project Management, CRM, Collaboration
• Contactually Provides Powerful, Unobtrusive CRM

Thanks to a plethora of mobile apps, like the 10 featured here, business people can perform a variety of business intelligence tasks on their smartphones and tablets.

• Google Snaps Up Channel Intelligence for $125M
• SAS Aims Visual Analytics at Midsized Businesses
• Microsoft Dynamics for Retail Goes Omni-Channel
• IBM Retail Software Targets Omni-Channel Shoppers
• Top 5 CRM Trends for 2013
• Data Scientist Shortage? Try Team Building

While Big Data can be useful in fighting fraud, traditional business intelligence tools aren't much help.

• Top 5 CRM Trends for 2013
• Data Scientist Shortage? Try Team Building

Product portfolio management software can help organizations more quickly launch new products, an important edge in today's competitive marketplace.

With Big Data in its DNA, tech startup Bina Technologies hopes to revolutionize health care by enabling personalized medicine.

• SAS Aims Visual Analytics at Midsized Businesses
• Data Scientist Shortage? Try Team Building
• Big Data and Beyond: 10 BI Trends for 2013