Open source business intelligence leader Jaspersoft today unveiled Jaspersoft 4, which the company is billing as the “first complete BI suite designed for web applications.” With a new modular UI architecture that separates the content and presentation layers in keeping…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) completed its $1 billion acquisition of e-commerce software vendor ATG this week and outlined ambitious plans to merge CRM, ERP, retail applications and supply chain management. Thomas Kurian, Oracle’s executive vice president for product development, said on…
Information Builders has unveiled a new business intelligence tool that the company says will allow non-technical end users to generate their own customized reports, dashboards and gadgets. InfoMini, a tool in WebFOCUS InfoAssist, lets business analysts and end users choose…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has closed its acquisition of Ruby cloud platform vendor Heroku for $212 million, the cloud CRM leader announced today. Heroku will gives Salesforce a Ruby application development platform in addition to its VMforce platform-as-a-service for Java developers.…
Business intelligence and analytics have become something of a corporate obsession in recent years, as the severe economic downturn of 2007-2009 forced companies to look for cheaper ways to maximize their competitive advantage and do as much as they could…
Salesforce.com’s (NYSE: CRM) Chatter collaboration service and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Dynamics CRM 2011 beta were two of the biggest product developments in the customer relationship management (CRM) market this year, so not surprisingly, they dominated the list of the most-read…
Despite its dominance in the OLAP market, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) could be joining the growing ranks of vendors who see in-memory analytics as the future of business intelligence, according to a company that has worked with the software giant on…
Teradata (NYSE: TDC) and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) are doing a little last-minute Christmas shopping, as the data warehousing and CRM vendors are acquiring a pair of cloud computing companies. Data warehousing and business analytics vendor Teradata has acquired Aprimo, a…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is making Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) CRM and ERP applications available on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. In a blog posting last week, Amazon said Oracle PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and E-Business Suite applications and databases are now…
According to a Microsoft Dynamics blog post today, the release candidate of Microsoft CRM 2011 is now available and a launch date has been set for Jan. 20. The blog, by Microsoft premier field engineer manager Eric Newell, links to…