News: October 2011

Industry and product news on CRM, Business Intelligence, ERP, supply chain management, and other enterprise applications. - Archive for October 2011

IBM rolls out big data analytics, location mapping for predictive analytics and healthcare analytics software based on Watson technology.

Updated: Is Microsoft feeling the heat of faster, smaller competitors in the customer relationship management (CRM) space or just feeling …

Oracle takes aim at Salesforce.com with its expanding cloud CRM service.

NetSuite OneWorld 2011 boasts new CRM and analytics features.

Oracle expands its business intelligence offerings with Endeca's unstructured data management.

Box closes on an $81 million funding round for what the company claims is 'one of the fastest-growing enterprise applications of all time.'

QlikView 11's annotation, collaboration and comparative analysis features enhances the business discovery process for business intelligence …

New IBM application services for cloud include middleware, DB2, SAP services and CRM.

Cisco's contact center business has posted strong growth in the year since the company added social CRM to the software.

IBM integrates analytics and business processes to create agile enterprises.

Larry Ellison blasts Salesforce.com as a 'roach motel' cloud as new database, Java and Fusion Apps cloud debuts.

Oracle's latest cloud CRM release comes amid controversy with rival Salesforce.com.

The big theme at this at this week's OpenWorld was speeding up Oracle applications with 'big data' analytics.

Oracle's new in-memory database appliance accelerates data analysis.

Launched in public beta, MicroStrategy Cloud Personal lets users tap into analytical insight.