Sybase is speeding up business intelligence (BI) and analytics with the latest version of Sybase Replication Server. The database company, which was acquired by SAP (NYSE: SAP) last month, is making a number of product announcements at its TechWave conference…
MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) posted better than expected quarterly results last night, but shares of the business intelligence software maker traded lower on Wall Street today on concern about rising expenses. For the second quarter, MicroStrategy reported a 23 percent jump…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) continues to move well beyond its origins as a search engine and more and more into other uses of information. This week the company made news in both the CRM and analytics markets. The most interesting news…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has a commanding lead in the business intelligence market, but the German software giant has had its struggles of late. Investors will get their latest look at how the company is doing when it reports its quarterly…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has landed a big customer for its cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) service. Facebook, the giant social networking site that just reached the 500 million user mark, will use Salesforce’s Sales Cloud 2 to manage its sales…
Anyone wondering how much potential the market for social CRM has should look no further than the $30 million investment in Jive Software from two of the top venture capital firms. The third round of funding was led by Kleiner…
RelayWare has opened a U.S. office to boost sales of its cloud-based Partner Relationship Management (PRM) software. The 13-year-old UK firm hopes its new Redwood City, Calif., office can expand a customer base that already includes the likes of Sony,…
Gartner has published its first Magic Quadrant for the social CRM (customer relationship management) market, and the firm’s analysis suggests that the fast-growing market has a ways to go to reach maturity. Gartner said there are more than 100 companies…
The IPO of Qlik Technologies (NASDAQ: QLIK) today showed just how hot the business intelligence (BI) market is. On a day when major stock indexes plunged nearly 3 percent on slowdown fears and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) fell 7 percent on…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced today that the next version of its customer relationship management (CRM) solution will be publicly available as a beta release in September. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 — code-named “CRM5” — includes stronger integration with Microsoft Outlook…