Salesforce.com’s enterprise application development ecosystem, Force.com, grew a little bigger today with CallidusCloud’s LeadFormix. LeadFormix is a cloud-based lead generation and management software for sales organizations with an emphasis on social media and mobile access. Sales people receive daily lead reports,…
Customer relationship management (CRM) software has changed how businesses engage with consumers by driving efficiency and helping them identify new revenue-generating opportunities. When it comes to sales organizations, attention is increasingly turning toward CRM’s cousin, sales performance management (SPM). Typically…
Pleasanton, Calif.-based Workday filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), it was revealed late Thursday. Founded in 2005, the maker of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software hopes to raise up to $400 million. Given the heated competition…
Is Big Data ushering in an era of big security challenges? The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) isn’t taking any chances, so it has established its own Big Data Working Group. The group “will work to address the security and privacy issues…
Quest Software is entering the business intelligence (BI) tools fray with new software that the company has named Toad Business Intelligence Suite. According to Quest, the software, which follows in the tradition of the company’s Toad database developer tools, eliminates many of the…
Redwood City, Calif.-based Tidemark today announced new enterprise performance management (EPM) applications aimed at bringing the company’s financial planning, operational planning and metrics management to the cloud and to mobile employees who may need to make decisions on the fly. Available now,…
Big Blue today announced it is acquiring Kenexa, a social-enabled, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) specialist, for approximately $1.3 billion or $46 per share. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals. The goal,…
Sqrrl, a Big Data startup that specializes in software based on Apache Accumulo, an open source data storage and retrieval system, has attracted $2 million in initial funding from Atlas Ventures and Matrix Partners. The Sqrrl team will move from…
Zoho’s cloud-based CRM platform is branching out into markets pioneered by MailChimp and Constant Contact. The company this week unveiled Zoho Campaigns, an email and social media marketing module that offers tight integration with Zoho CRM. Rather than a new set…
Salesforce.com is betting the path to prosperity for social enterprises requires taking a social-enabled, community-based approach. The cloud-based CRM provider today debuted Salesforce Communities, an upcoming offering that integrates the company’s business process-boosting technology with social features to enable what…