News: December 2011
Oracle Earnings Disappoint Market, Ellison Unfazed
December 21, 2011Oracle turns in a rare earnings miss, though CRM seen as a bright spot.
GlobalOne Goes Vertical with Cloud CRM Solutions for Financial Services
December 19, 2011Vendor wants to help financial services companies take advantage of cloud-based social and mobile CRM capabilities by offering solutions targeted to specific verticals like asset management.
Salesforce.com Enters HCM Space with Rypple Acquisition
December 16, 2011Seeking to get its foot in the door of the human capital management (HCM) space, Salesforce.com Friday signed a definitive agreement to acquire cloud-based social performance management specialist Rypple.
IBM Buys Supply Chain Analytics Firm Emptoris
December 15, 2011The acquisition of cloud and on-premise supply chain analytics specialist Emptoris is the latest in a raft of acquisitions by Big Blue to support its Smarter Commerce initiative.
Birst Aims for Analytics Sweet Spot with In-Memory Database
December 14, 2011Vendor says in-memory database offers data analysis capabilities of more costly enterprise solutions in a smaller and more affordable footprint.
SAP Makes Social Analysis Play with NetBase Agreement
December 12, 2011SAP is selling NetBase’s social media analytics software and examining opportunities to integrate it with SAP applications, including CRM, business intelligence and ERP solutions.
IBM Snaps Up DemandTec for Cloud-Based Commerce Analytics
December 9, 2011IBM will acquire DemandTec in a $440 million cash transaction to add its cloud-based analytics software to the IBM Smarter Commerce initiative.
Oracle Updates JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools
December 8, 2011Oracle stresses its commitment to existing product lines with refresh of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools.
JasperSoft Advances Business Intelligence for Big Data
December 7, 2011Open source business intelligence vendor takes a different approach to analyzing Hadoop.
SAP to Acquire SuccessFactors in $3.4 Billion Deal
December 5, 2011In a move analysts have characterized as "aggressive," the enterprise applications powerhouse seeks to snap up the cloud-based human capital management specialist.
JackBe Makes Business Intelligence Self-Service
December 2, 2011The company says its business intelligence software is built for front-line managers.
Salesforce Launches Enterprise Social Marketing Cloud Suite
December 1, 2011Radian6 extends the social enterprise to marketing with monitoring, insights and engagement.
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