CRM, ERP, and Business Intelligence Software

The tablet-based conferencing market includes giants like Cisco, Citrix and Adobe and up-and-comers like Fuze and Saba.

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Firm targets human resources professionals with its cloud-based, Big Data-driven analytics platform.

• RelateIQ Raises $20M for Relationship Intelligence Platform
• HP Autonomy Launches Marketing Cloud
• Marketo Revs Customer Engagement Engine
• HP Builds New Big Data HAVEn
• ThinkVine Updates Marketing Mix Optimization Platform
• SAP Readies CRM Onslaught with Hybris Buy

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

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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

Has the enterprise reached a 'tipping point' when it comes to cloud-based ERP? A growing list of startups offering cloud ERP apps seem to think so.

• Product Portfolio Management: Getting Products to Market Faster

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

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• Data Scientist Shortage? Try Team Building
• Big Data and Beyond: 10 BI Trends for 2013