The early buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) included breathless accounts of refrigerators that could alert you that your milk was about to go bad and when you should reorder eggs or other staples. Why go to all that…
The Internet of Things (IoT) offers the potential to create new business models, streamline business processes and reduce costs in industries ranging from bioresearch to petroleum production. One industry ripe for IoT-driven improvement is aviation. A McKinsey Global Institute report…
We’ve heard a lot about software-defined storage and software-defined data centers, but Big Data analytics startup Metanautix has made it possible for organizations to build software-defined data marts using its Quest 2.0 software. According to the company, the product helps…
Anyone working in the accounts department or who owns a small business knows about the administrative practices of the IRS. Countless letters are generated, penalties are seemingly assessed arbitrarily, and tax returns and other documents get lost. The agency is…
Most midmarket and enterprise firms already have ERP solutions. While there may be business to be had upgrading those users to newer packages, the real growth area for ERP is SMB. A recent Software Advice survey found that 87 percent…
There is no escaping the outpouring of hype about Hadoop. Some see it as heading toward maturity in terms of its enterprise readiness, while others think it is the enabler of a new class of so-called data lakes. But more…
There is a lot of hype out there about Big Data’s ability to transform your business and how the latest analytics can revolutionize every aspect of human existence. But does the hype match up to reality? Enterprise Apps Today looked…
Hadoop just keeps on growing. According to Allied Market Research, the Hadoop market is worth around $3 billion currently and will surpass $50 billion by the end of the decade. So what is propelling Hadoop to such a meteoric rise?…
There is a lot of hype out there about the wonders of data lakes, as well as cautions about the dangers of them turning into data swamps. Much of this debate about the true value of data lakes is premature.…
Saar Bitner, Sisense Will.i.am recently released his version of the smartwatch, the Puls, which cements wearable technology as the next go-to accessory of celebrity fashion lines. Looking beyond their stylish appeal, the next generation of Big Data-enabled wearables contributes to…
Earlier this month, we covered 5 key trends in human capital management. (HCM). In this buying guide, we offer users some tips on implementation and a brief overview of the vendor landscape. A few years ago, HCM was dominated by…
While the open source R programming language has been popular for data analysis and statistical modeling, it has been tough to use with large data sets because it runs as a single thread on a machine, which limits the amount…
While human capital management (HCM) is far from the hottest area of the enterprise applications market, it is gaining ground. HCM is perhaps best defined as an umbrella term that is gradually replacing what used to be separate best-of-breed systems…
Closed-loop business processes, even ones that directly impact the bottom line, are relatively rare in supply chain management. Instead, many businesses cobble together information with tools like spreadsheets and email. Cloud ERP provider FinancialForce.com is targeting one such process, by…
Docker has certainly gotten a lot of press of late. It is an open platform for distributed applications that allows developers and IT administrators to build, ship and run applications anywhere. This open source project is said to empower IT…
Many business intelligence experts, including those who made recent business intelligence and analytics predictions for 2015, predict that data analysis will continue to become more democratic this year, with business users gaining the ability to perform their own “what-if” analyses…
Analytics is nothing new in finance. Chief financial officers (CFOs) and their staffs have been using them for years to crunch numbers and draw insight from balance sheets, income statements and cash-flow statements. But how analytics is being deployed appears…
When we asked analysts, forecasters and pundits for their predictions for the most relevant business intelligence and analytics trends for 2015, they came up with a host of topics, including mobile maturity, Hadoop growth, better text analysis and incorporation of…
Like Salesforce and Oracle before it, Teradata is building a suite of cloud-based marketing software through a series of acquisitions, the latest one announced yesterday. Teradata in December purchased Israel’s Appoxee, its third marketing-related acquisition of 2014. Earlier in the…
When we surveyed experts about CRM trends, cloud, integration with analytics and speed of deployment are among the biggest trends we heard about for 2015. This indicates a solidification of ongoing trends rather than a year dominated by new fads…
The enterprise application playing field of today is quite different from that of only a few years ago. So what are some of the biggest trends as we head into 2015? Faster, Easier App Development Adam Seligman, vice president of…
By Kelly Baig, Revitas If your business is like many, it earns more than half of its annual revenue through an ecosystem of channel partners. A study conducted by The 2112 Group and commissioned by Revitas found that 61 percent…
What do SAS, Cisco, Duke Energy and AT&T have in common? They are all big proponents of the Internet of Things (IoT), also often called the Industrial Internet. The central idea behind IoT is that sensors and microchips can be…
One of the promises of the Internet of Things (IoT) is its ability to help companies improve their supply chains by gathering data that can be used to answer such questions as when goods will arrive and the quickest and…
Are the terms enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) destined to become obsolete, replaced by something that encapsulates the two such as enterprise resource analytics? While a new term is no sure thing, these two areas are coming…
Cloud analytics was the big news at this week’s annual Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS) event held by SAS. Other announcements concerned educational partnerships to bridge the data science skills gap and expanded Hadoop support. According to SAS, the triple…
Not everyone can agree on a definition for Big Data. Though many experts, including Gartner, cite high volume, variety and velocity as key characteristics of Big Data, there is more to it than that. “Big Data is much more than…
Just how much data can private companies (or government agencies for that matter) collect on individuals and how much responsibility do they have in that regard? From a purely marketing, revenue or public safety point of view, the answers to…
By Poulomi Damany, BitYota It’s a new era for data warehousing. Enterprises now draw upon multi-source, semi-structured data to facilitate new and more useful products and services. These diverse data sets also enable business models built on a deeper understanding…
In our earlier article, experts offered their tips on making mobile CRM initiatives a success. This buying guide provides more insight on evaluating mobile CRM software, and also covers some of the available choices. So what should organizations look for…
Gartner recently released a Worldwide IT Spending Forecast, highlighting the fact that enterprise software is going to experience by far the strongest growth of any IT sector. Of a projected $3.8 trillion in worldwide IT spending in 2014 (up 3.1…
Mobile CRM is on a real growth tear. Last year Gartner predicted a 500 percent growth rate for mobile CRM apps. Also last year, C-suite executives responding to an IDC survey identified CRM as their most-wanted mobile app. There are…
The last couple of years have seen Big Data filter down from the enterprise into the land of small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs). In fact, recent research from Quinstreet Enterprise (the owner of this site) shows that midsize companies currently…
The cloud has invaded many areas of the enterprise, and recently it has been the turn of finance and accounting applications to become cloud enabled. It is now possible to run just about any finance function in the cloud. But…
NetSuite, which is known primarily for its cloud-based ERP software, has acquired London-based Venda, a provider of e-commerce solutions, in a move intended to expand the capabilities of NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce software and also to support NetSuite’s expansion into the European…
Because application performance management (APM) is a complex area influenced by a multitude of factors, trying to sum it up in a page or two is difficult. Rather than trying to cover it all, here we provide brief overviews of…
We recently published Top Ten Trends in Cloud ERP, and we’ve also looked at how ERP giants like Oracle and SAP are approaching the cloud. Here we follow up with a buying guide that aims to educate users about evaluating…
A recent joint announcement by Microsoft and Salesforce on their new partnership sent ripples across the IT and business worlds. With the ink hardly dry on a previous partnership announcement by Microsoft and SAP, it seemed a bit puzzling. So…
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates Many enterprises understand that establishing and maintaining data quality is essential to their sustainable success, as major business decisions are informed by internal data trends. However, that doesn’t mean they know how to get there.…
Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software hasn’t really caught on yet. But according to a recent Gartner survey, it will soon. Here are some of the top trends shaping cloud-based ERP. Cloud ERP Catching Fire While only 2 percent of…
When someone goes off in all directions at once, the common advice is to focus. The same advice could well apply to CRM systems that often try to be all things to all people. Instead of trying to put everything…
When it comes to selecting, implementing and running ERP, there are countless ways to get it wrong. Here are a few of the most common ERP mistakes and – more important – how you can avoid making them. Ignoring ERP…
While companies are adopting cloud applications in growing numbers, most are using what Infor CEO Charles Phillips calls “edge applications” like CRM or human capital management (HCM). Infor believes companies may be interested in cloud software suites in addition to…
Enterprise Apps Today recently wrote about Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant (MQ) specific to advanced analytics. Gartner addresses the broader business intelligence market in its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, which also encompasses analytics capabilities – so, yes…
For eight years now, Gartner has been issuing a Magic Quadrant (MQ) for business intelligence. The rise of advanced analytics has been so strong and sustained that the analyst firm has split off that portion of BI into its own…
Enterprises are beginning to find strong business cases for geographic information systems. And there are plenty of choices out there for those interested in implementing GIS. ArcGIS ArcGIS by ESRI is probably the best known and longest established vendor in…
The field of geographic information systems (GIS) is impacting the enterprise applications space like never before. Known best for basic mapping functions, its influence is apparent to any smartphone user who has opened a maps program to locate the nearest…
Adaptive Planning, a provider of cloud-based business and financial analytics, is changing its brand name to Adaptive Insights, which CEO John Herr said better describes the benefits the company delivers. “While ‘Adaptive’ represents our brand equity, ‘Insights’ points to the…
With the widening adoption of Hadoop and in-memory databases, companies are starting to realize that Big Data analytics has uses well beyond traditional business intelligence. Some are now harnessing it to detect potential security threats and improve their defenses and…
Mindshare Technologies, a provider of cloud-based customer service software for the food services, retail and contact center industries, has introduced Comment Poster, an offering included in the company’s reporting suite that aims to improve the customer experience across brand locations.…