ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Momentum is growing to regulate data and online privacy, according to a new U.S. government internet policy official, who cited a number of domestic and international efforts that could lead to stronger controls on personal data. Ari…
OpenERP seems to be a rarity among open source business software companies. There are no special enterprise editions — open source and paying customers get the exact same software and features — yet the company has managed to turn a…
Aplicor today announced the beta launch of Aplicor Cloud Suite 7.0, which combines customer relationship management (CRM), sales force automation, business intelligence and enterprise resource planning (ERP) in a cloud-based business software suite. On the CRM side, Aplicor offers CRM,…
Open source business intelligence company Pentaho unveiled BI and data integration tools for Hadoop this week, but they aren’t available to users of the free community edition of Pentaho. The new offerings, unveiled at Hadoop World this week, make Hadoop…
QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK) today unveiled QlikView 10, the latest version of its business intelligence software that the company says provides enterprise-class BI in an easy-to-use format. Anthony Deighton, Qlik’s senior vice president of products, said the combination of ease of…
Chatter has been Salesforce.com’s (NYSE: CRM) most successful product launch ever, with 20,000 companies using the enterprise collaboration and social networking tool just a few months after its launch. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is himself a big user of the…
Open source CRM vendor SugarCRM is making a play for the OEM market and also planning a native CRM app for Apple iPhone and iPad users. The new OEM Platform Edition is aimed at ISVs and distribution partners who embed…
Jitterbit today unveiled a tool that the company says makes it easier for users to integrate other enterprise applications with Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM). Jitterbit Connect for Salesforce is a wizard-based integration tool built into Jitterbit Enterprise Edition that lets non-technical…
Actuate (NASDAQ: ACTU) has added new features to its open source-based business intelligence software to make development and deployment of custom applications easier. Actuate, which ranked high in a recent Forrester analysis of open source BI software, this week unveiled…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled 10 business analytics applications aimed at key industries and verticals such as retail, consumer products, finance, healthcare, telecom and government. “Our goal is to remain the number one business applications company in the world,” said…