Sanjay Poonen, the head of SAP’s mobility division and president the Global Solutions division, took the stage during a press conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to announce that his company is acquiring Syclo. Already an SAP partner company prior to…
Further proof today that the iPad has indeed changed the customer relationship management (CRM) market came as CDC Software announces its first app for Apple’s tablet, Pivotal CRM for iPad. The company joins several other CRM software makers in responding to the rising popularity…
The ink was hardly dry on the Clerity deal before Dell whipped out its checkbook again, this time to acquire Make Technologies. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed. Like Clerity, Vancouver-based Make develops software and services that allow organizations to pry legacy…
Oracle is on a mission to claim the Big Data business analytics crown and counter increasing competition from the likes of SAP and IBM. Oracle President Mark Hurd took to the stage today at Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo 2012 during a keynote presentation to…
Today, Dell made a second acquisition in as many days — see the Dell-Wyse deal — by taking Chicago-based Clerity Solutions off the market. Clerity specializes in transitioning business applications off of mainframes and onto commodity servers and IT infrastructure via its automated UniKix…
Just weeks after diving into the social CRM market, Jive Software today launched its new Social Intranet Solution for enterprises. The aim is to breathe new, productivity-enhancing life into desolate corporate intranets. Describing the typical business intranet as “stale, static and…
Social media efforts can be a tricky proposition. And measuring their effectiveness is even trickier. When it comes to measuring the impact of social media, Web marketers are undervaluing the value of the traffic that’s sent their way through services…
Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is heading to Azure, the company’s cloud platform, later this year. And Microsoft hopes SMBs and ISVs will follow. During this week’s Convergence 2012 gathering in Houston, Microsoft announced that Dynamics NAV 2013…
Is your company’s crystal ball clouded by Big Data? That’s the question posed by IBM today as it unveils a new suite of analytics products and services. The IT heavyweight is hoping to entice C-level execs with software and consultancy…
The clouds will rain revenue and jobs over the next five years, according to an SAP-sponsored study (PDF) conducted by the Sand Hill Group. The study predicts the cloud will generate $20 billion in revenue per year and create over half a…