Email and online marketing firm Constant Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT) is adding social CRM to its product lineup with the acquisition of Bantam Live for $15 million. Constant Contact hopes to transform itself from one-way marketing to “engagement marketing” through the…
NexJ has managed to carve out a solid niche for itself in the customer relationship management (CRM) market by focusing on a small segment: financial services, insurance and healthcare. The Toronto-based company, which just refreshed its financial services CRM offering,…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has made yet another acquisition. On the heels of its acquisitions of Heroku, Etacts and Dimdim, the online CRM leader has acquired Manymoon, a popular service that adds productivity and collaboration tools to Google Apps and LinkedIn.…
Lister Technologies has unveiled a new healthcare business intelligence solution. Lister HITAM is “designed to rapidly streamline the integration of disparate financial, clinical and operational data silos within healthcare organizations,” the company said, giving healthcare providers a “single view into…
EMC (NYSE: EMC) has released a free community edition of the EMC Greenplum Database, along with analytic algorithms and data mining tools. Free downloads of the massively parallel processing (MPP) database are available at community.greenplum.com. Based on technology EMC acquired…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) launched its free Chatter.com enterprise social networking service today, and the company plans to promote the new service in Super Bowl ads on Sunday. Salesforce’s Chatter service is offered free to its 87,000 CRM customers, and more…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced two new partnerships today for its LotusLive email, Web conferencing, social networking and collaboration cloud service. The partnerships with Ariba and SugarCRM add social commerce and customer relationship management (CRM) to IBM’s cloud collaboration offering. SugarCRM,…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) pioneered the market for cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) with its online customer relationship management (CRM) service, and the company has been richly rewarded by investors as a result. But Barron’s thinks investors may…
OpenERP has released the latest version of its open source ERP software, and the company is also offering a SaaS version for $39 a month per user. Version 6 of OpenERP offers a wide range of business applications — CRM,…
Business intelligence and analytics vendors were out in force at this week’s National Retail Federation conference in New York City showcasing products to help retailers with everything from promotions and pricing to space management. IBM, SAP, Oracle, SAS and QlikTech…