The latest news from enterprise social network provider Socialtext isn’t really a new feature, but an aggressive marketing move aimed at a competitor. Today, Socialtext announced a free migration service designed to move companies with users of the Yammer microblogging…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won Time magazine’s Person of the Year award, but it looks like the social media software revolution he helped launch is reaching well beyond consumers. Research firm Gartner sees healthy revenue growth for enterprise social media software…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) reported a bang up second quarter, beating Wall Street profit estimates. The enterprise software and hardware company reported software license updates and product revenues grew 12 percent in the quarter to $3.7 billion, and new software license…
The business purpose of a customer relationship management (CRM) system is to capture new customers faster, grow them more predictably, and keep them as loyal repeat customers. A CRM system should streamline the revenue business process and make every dollar…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — You might not think of the U.S. State Department as a leading edge user of technology, but Richard Boly, director of the department’s Office of eDiplomacy, went a long way toward dispelling that notion here at…
Enterprise social network vendor Socialtext has released a major update to its platform that adds a Salesforce.com “connector” and an advanced search feature called Socialtext Explore. Socialtext says the new connector, available now as a beta release, lets Socialtext users…
Charles Phillips has rebounded from his awkward exit from Oracle, landing the CEO spot at ERP and CRM provider Infor. Phillips, the former president of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), left in September after the company appointed former HP (NYSE: HPQ) Mark…
Aiming to separate from the pack of players offering enterprise-friendly social media applications, Socialcast unveiled Reach, an extension of its core micro-blogging platform. Where companies like Salesforce (Chatter), Socialtext (Signals) and Yammer give enterprises Twitter- and Facebook-like capabilities behind the…
Enterprise search provider Endeca Technologies says its latest release makes typically complex business intelligence (BI) applications more accessible. Endeca Latitude, released Monday, gives IT a centralized platform for deploying BI applications across a wide range of diverse and changing data…
In his OpenWorld keynote address yesterday, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison reiterated his criticism of CRM rival Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), threw in some jabs at SAP (NYSE: SAP) too, and also managed to discuss some of the company’s products…