For over a decade there has talk about bringing together sales processes and CRM. While progress has been made, informally ask half a dozen sales people how they like their CRM app and you’ll soon understand that there is still…
We recently covered trends affecting the ERP startup space. This time around we profile a few of these promising cloud ERP startups. Some are squarely in the ERP camp, while others offer apps related to ERP. “The bigger vendors are…
All of us complain about the travails of travel, particularly airline travel. Long lines at security, baggage fees, change fees and more recently, air traffic controller furloughs that caused massive delays, are a part of many travel experiences. But this…
A decade or so back, enterprise applications sat on their own dedicated server. The rule of one app to one server was strictly observed. That changed with the arrival of virtualization, as pioneered by VMware. All of a sudden a…
In the 1990s enterprise resource planning (ERP) startups were a dime a dozen. But then came a period of consolidation, resulting in a relative handful of larger players. Any analyst round up typically listed mega-vendors IBM, SAP and Oracle as…
If it was easy to detect fraud, there wouldn’t be much of it around. But these days, the sheer volume of information being generated makes it more difficult than ever to detect. “Organizations today typically have a fragmented approach to…
Human capital management (HCM) is a complicated enough subject in itself. But add social recruiting into the mix, and some HCM applications are challenged to keep up. After all, there are over one billion people using social networks globally, representing…
As we’ve already noted, pairing Big Data with analytics is one of the best ways to derive business benefits from supersized data sets. In our quest to find some of the most buzz-worthy Big Data apps, we’ve written about apps…
Big Data and analytics are two of the most dominant business intelligence trends for 2013. So bringing the two of them together will likely result in something that can do all kinds of good for your business. As it happens,…
People once spent years lying on a couch pouring out their deepest secrets so a psychotherapist could analyze the underlying meanings. Now call centers use software to analyze what customers are saying in real time. While call center speech analytics…