News: February 2013
Industry and product news on CRM, Business Intelligence, ERP, supply chain management, and other enterprise applications. - Archive for February 2013
Information Builders Gives WebFOCUS the Big Data Analytics Treatment
February 28, 2013New enhancements bring a real-time, Big Data-fueled edge to Information Builders' WebFOCUS business intelligence offerings.
Salesforce Tops CRM Rankings: Capterra
February 26, 2013While Salesforce takes the number one spot in the customer relationship management scene in terms of overall popularity, it relinquishes the …
Chartio Adds Salesforce to Visual Analytics Mix
February 21, 2013The analytics startup integrates Salesforce data to enable real-time business intelligence gathering for users of the leading cloud CRM …
Teradata Enhances Visualization Capabilities of Big Data Platform
February 20, 2013Teradata's Aster Discovery Platform 5.10, due later this year, is designed to give SQL-savvy analysts the ability to easily create Big Data …
Open Source Elasticsearch Firm Raises $24M
February 20, 2013As more enterprises base their Big Data search platforms on Elasticsearch, the software maker rakes in additional funding to advance and …
Social Video Ad Firm Virool Raises $6.6M
February 15, 2013Social video advertising firm Virool rakes in funds to keep its momentum going.
Persado Raises $15M for Persuasive Marketing
February 13, 2013Marketing software specialist attracts funds for a SaaS platform that optimizes marketing messages.
Sailthru Raises $19M for Personalized Slant on Big Data
February 11, 2013Following a period of explosive growth, Sailthru attracts funds to put a personalized spin on Big Data.
DataXu Raises $27M for Big Data Marketing
February 7, 2013Venture capitalists are showing the love for Big Data startups, especially those with solutions geared toward marketers. The latest to get …
Google Snaps Up Channel Intelligence for $125M
February 6, 2013Search giant Google turns its attention to e-commerce and product marketing with its acquisition of Channel Intelligence.
IBM Buys Business Intelligence Automation Specialist
February 5, 2013IBM's analytics slate grows with the acquisition of a business intelligence process automation and application integration software …
SAS Aims Visual Analytics at Midsized Businesses
February 5, 2013Now that the company's data exploration and visualization platform runs on departmental-level IT infrastructures, SAS puts Big Data insights …
Big Data Market to Reach $48.3B by 2018
February 1, 2013The Big Data market is only growing bigger, according to a forecast from Transparency Market Research. The firm predicts a CAGR of 40.5 …
Dell Accelerates Moves to SAP HANA
February 1, 2013Dell jumps into the ring to deliver pre-packaged SAP HANA infrastructure solutions.