Business intelligence (BI) software maker, Jaspersoft, has announced that Gartner named the company to its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms. According to this PR-USA news release, inclusion in the 2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant was decided by Gartner analysts…
Author Kenneth J. Richard, in his article on Information Week, says customers can avoid big deployments gone awry, if they just pay attention to the contracts they sign. Disclaimers, warranty and remedies limitations, venue provisions, and integration clauses operate to…
A software company needs to balance its offering — if the focus is on back-office financials the company should build or buy CRM, and a CRM company should build or buy ERP. But the number of companies that succeeded at…
Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) have all all invested in one company, HubSpot, with a Series D round of financing of $32 million. As noted on the Hubspot blog, the company provides all-in-one marketing software used by…
Enterprise class vendors looking for ways to tap into the middle tier of customers that traditionally would have been out of reach to them, have taken an interest in two-tier ERP, a concept that goes back at least 15 years…
According to Gartner, social CRM for customer service has the potential to bring new and dynamic methods for improving customer service. As noted in this report on Media Newswire, social CRM is also creating opportunities for new and existing providers…
Customer relationship management (CRM) company, SugarCRM, has announced the keynote speakers, sponsors and agenda for its open business event: SugarCon 2011. Taking place April 4-6 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, industry leaders such as IBM, Pardot, Capgemini and…
Big Data includes unstructured info posted on Facebook and Twitter, and ways of gleaning intelligence from all of it to create business opportunities. This Network World articles discusses the topic of exactly what the phrase big data means and focuses…
Apperian, Inc. has recently announced a new version of its Enterprise App Service Environment (EASE). In this news release on Business Wire, Apperian says the new version gives administrators new tools to strengthen authentication and security for enterprise-wide applications running…
Singapore Management University (SMU) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have teamed up to establish the Living Analytics Research Center (LARC). As noted in this PR Newswire release, the center will develop new techniques to acquire data on consumer and social…