In 2011, the top 10 CRM application vendors captured nearly half the $19.1 billion customer relationship management (CRM) software market, according to new data released today by IDC. IBM’s CRM efforts have started to pay off. Big Blue managed to crack…
Actuate is not done forging alliances as it looks to align its open source BIRT business intelligence platform with the booming Hadoop-based Big Data ecosystem. The company announced today that it is teaming with Pervasive Software to bring ActuateOne’s BIRT-based…
Oracle revealed today that it is acquiring Boulder, Colo.-based Collective Intellect, a cloud-based provider of social intelligence services, for an undisclosed amount. It’s a sure-fire sign that the social CRM market is hot and getting hotter as businesses seek solutions that…
Zurmo, an open source CRM project, hit a big milestone with the recent release of the Beta version of its software. One of the application’s features is a points and leveling system that adds a dash of play to the…
If there is anything as big as Big Data, it’s enterprise interest in using it to create business advantage. To satisfy this outsized interest, Enterprise Apps Today published two Buyer’s Guides on the topic: one focused on the Big Data…
In a sure sign the social CRM market is booming, Oracle today announced it is acquiring cloud-based social marketing specialist Vitrue. Although the companies have not officially disclosed the deal’s worth, TechCrunch pegs the transaction at $300 million. The firm’s claim to…
SAP made quite a splash when it poured billions into acquiring cloud human capital management (HCM) provider SuccessFactors in December. But the German software giant was nowhere near finished staking a claim in the business cloud services market. SAP late yesterday announced…
Salesforce is adding real-time chat and screensharing functionality to its Chatter platform with offerings called, fittingly enough, Chatter Messenger and Chatter Screensharing. The news arrives just days after the Salesforce announced impressive first quarter fiscal 2013 results. The cloud CRM specialist…
SAP’s HANA ecosystem gets a little bigger today as Opera Solutions revealed that its Signal Hub tech and applications are coming to the in-memory analytics platform at the SAPPHIRE Now conference in Orlando, Fla. Opera Solutions is a provider of…
If your business hasn’t already devoted some IT resources to Big Data, there’s a good chance that it soon will. A new study from data integration software specialist Informatica reveals that 70 percent of organizations are currently considering, planning, testing or running…