Amazon led the latest round of funding for analytic database vendor ParAccel. Figures were not disclosed, but Amazon was joined by Menlo Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Bay Partners, Walden International, Tao Venture Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank in ParAccel’s…
Earlier this week, SugarCRM announced it has acquired iExtensions CRM from iEnterprises for an undisclosed sum, reports eCRMGuide.com. Built from the ground up on IBM Lotus collaborative technologies, iExtensions CRM will add enhanced support for IBM collaboration tools inside Sugar 6. Sugar…
Lawson Software introduced Lawson Analytics for Healthcare, a new analytic solution that purports to deliver a simple way to connect staffing, clinical and financial information for better decision making, says InformationWeek. Scheduled for availability in May 2011, Lawson Analytics for…
Infor announced Infor Workspace, a consumer-grade user interface built on Microsoft SharePoint that’s designed to provide a better user experience by blending a common user interface, in-context collaboration and business intelligence. Soma Somasundaram, senior vice president, Global Product Development, Infor,…
Why the Hoopla over Hadoop? Hadoop in nine easy to understand facts. The Guardian awarded Apache Hadoop with its “Innovator of the Year” award as part of the MediaGuardian Innovation Awards in London. Described as the “Swiss Army Knife of…
SAP announced last week that it has integrated its in-memory HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance) with IBM’s DB2 database, PCWorld reports. The companies also released benchmark figures from a 1.3 terabyte test in which SAP’s in-memory technology was packaged with an…
A partnership between MeLLmo, developer of Roambi, a business application for mobile analytics, and business analytics software provider SAS will integrate Roambi with the SAS Enterprise BI Server, enabling users with access to SAS business intelligence data on iPads and…
Groupon, a deal-of-the-day website that has amassed 35 million registered users, has been tapped by a Rolling Meadowns, Ill.-based information technology consulting firm. Ajilitee, which specializes in analytics and cloud computing, launched a deal on Groupon that offers buyers $25,000…
HP has agreed to buy Vertica, a database management and analytics software firm, for an undisclosed sum, reports Dan Berthiaume over at CTO Edge. HP expects the acquisition to close in the second quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, according…
Samsung and SAP are partnering to bring mobile business intelligence to Android devices. The joint development leverages SAP’s Business Objects software to enable the Samsung Mobile Business Intelligence Dashboard to offer easy access to BI reports to mobile workers. Samsung…