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Industry and product news on CRM, Business Intelligence, ERP, supply chain management, and other enterprise applications.

Jive Delivers Social Inbox with StreamOnce

May 17, 2013

Jive's social collaboration platform gains a new unified inbox, thanks to a social startup's newly-acquired technology.

SAP Fiori: Consumerization of Enterprise Software Comes to ERP

May 15, 2013

iPads welcome. SAP's ERP slate gets new modern, user- and mobile-friendly apps to help keep workers productive.

IBM Consolidates Analytics Apps with Blue Insight

May 15, 2013

IBM is now using its own software to help build a smarter enterprise

Twitter Buys Big Data Analytics Startup Lucky Sort

May 14, 2013

Another Big Data startup gets swept up by an industry bigwig. This time social media giant Twitter comes calling.

Crafter Open Source CMS Goes Solo

May 14, 2013

New standalone organization created to support the open source Crafter content management system.

Oracle Intros In-Memory JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apps

May 10, 2013

In pursuit of the real-time enterprise, Oracle gives JD Edwards project management and sales apps the in-memory treatment.

SAP Unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud

May 8, 2013

Blistering in-memory app performance meets cloud delivery in SAP's latest offering for enterprises, HANA Enterprise Cloud.

SalesFUSION 8 Blurs CRM and Marketing Automation

May 7, 2013

Business software firm extends popular CRM platforms by deeply integrating sales and marketing workflows and capabilities.

Citrix Adds IM, Video Chat to Podio Collaboration Suite

May 3, 2013

Podio users will be able to initiate chats and hold video calls with their colleagues, as Citrix expands its collaboration platform.

Salesforce Communities Shakes up Customer Service

May 2, 2013

Salesforce is signaling the end of old-school customer forums with a social offering that pulls customer interactions directly into Chatter.

Cloudera Accelerates Big Data with Impala GA

May 1, 2013

Hadoop isn't just for batch processing of Big Data queries anymore. Cloudera introduces an open source project that enables real-time queries in Hadoop.

Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Help Skytree Land $18M

May 1, 2013

UPS and Sun's former CEO bet that a machine learning software company can open new, business-friendly frontiers in Big Data analytics.

Social Analytics Startup VoloMetrix Banks $3.3M

April 26, 2013

Enterprise social networking has arrived. Now what? SaaS startup VoloMetrix offers managers insights into how interactions can help boost business.

Actian Snags ParAccel for Big Data Management, Analytics

April 25, 2013

Big Data specialist Actian aims for bigger markets by acquiring a high-profile Amazon partner.

Salesforce Launches Social.com Ad Platform

April 23, 2013

Cloud CRM innovator tackles social media advertising on with the latest addition to its Marketing Cloud services slate.

Adaptive Planning Intros Financial Consolidation Software

April 19, 2013

Adaptive Planning says its Consolidation software can help enterprises that manage multiple business units in multiple geographies improve the accuracy and quality of their financial reporting process.

Marketing Automation Startup Brandcast Gets Benioff's Blessing (and Cash)

April 17, 2013

Content management and marketing automation startup Brandcast gets off the ground with a little help from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

Enterprise NoSQL Firm MarkLogic Raises $25M

April 11, 2013

Software maker MarkLogic attracts VC funds to help big businesses cozy up to Big Data.

Oracle Debuts New In-Memory Business App Slate

April 10, 2013

Oracle feeds the enterprise's need for speed with new, in-memory versions of its popular business applications.

Oracle Revamps Endeca and Business Intelligence Foundation

April 9, 2013

Business software giant Oracle updates its business analytics software portfolio with new ways to access more data sources and expanded visualization options.