WibiData is betting once enterprises start getting a handle on Big Data management, their attention will turn toward applications that unlock the profit-boosting potential that’s hiding in those vast stores of digital information. The San Francisco-based Big Data application management…
Splunk, a provider of real-time Big Data intelligence software, and Hadoop innovator Hortonworks are tackling interoperability between their respective platforms with Splunk Hadoop Connect. The companies have partnered to help organizations leverage both Splunk Enterprise and the Hortonworks Data Platform…
IBM’s Watson supercomputing technology is taking on a new role, and this time it has little to do with trouncing Jeopardy contestants. Big Blue is rolling out Watson Engagement Advisor, a cloud-delivered IBM Smarter Commerce service that leverages Watson’s Big Data…
Alteryx is wasting little time in its efforts to “humanize” Big Data and some venture capitalists have taken notice. Taking a pause from its rapid-fire product release schedule, the Irvine, Calif.-based Big Data analytics specialist announced today that it had…
Jive Software is out to banish one of the most enduring productivity killers in the business app scene: Alt-Tabbing. The enterprise social collaboration specialist today announced Jive StreamOnce, an offering that consolidates the email, messaging and collaboration capabilities of popular…
SAP is betting that “consumer-style apps” will come to define how workers interact with enterprise software in the bring your own device (BYOD) era. The German software maker today unveiled SAP Fiori, a collection of 25 HTML5-based applications that are designed…
Enterprise software and services providers aren’t the only ones snapping up Big Data analytics startups. Twitter made news on May 13 by acquiring Lucky Sort, a Portland, Ore.-based Big Data analytics and visualization firm. Lucky Sort CEO Noah Pepper announced…
SAP HANA isn’t the only in-memory game in town. Oracle is also leveraging in-memory technology and new software to help organizations attain the lofty goal of operating enterprise business processes in real-time. Hot on the heels of SAP’s HANA Enterprise Cloud…
SAP on May 7 announced HANA Enterprise Cloud, opening up a high-performance, cloud-enabled deployment option for organizations that are already invested in – or are mulling — the company’s business software ecosystem. HANA is SAP’s fast-growing in-memory computing platform. The…
SalesFUSION is strengthening and deepening the ties between its marketing automation application and popular customer relationship management (CRM) platforms. The Atlanta-based sales and marketing software specialist today announced SalesFUSION 8.0. The updated software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering provides a set of new and…
Citrix is adding a new, social twist to some well-established technologies, namely instant messaging and video chat. The company unveiled Podio Chat, a feature that allows teams to add a layer of instant, “in context” communications to their collaborative projects, according…
Salesforce officially launched Communities today, a service that according to the company ends “the era of legacy portal software.” Explosive mobile device adoption and the advent of social media have created new paradigms in customer service and support, asserts Anna Rosenman, senior…
One loves logistics and the other ran an IT empire. Together, they feel that machine learning can pave the way to real-time Big Data analytics. Both UPS and Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, participated in an “oversubscribed” round…
Customer relationship management (CRM) is taking the enterprise software market by storm. Gartner reported that the market for CRM software surged by 12.5 percent in 2012. Last year, CRM vendors hauled in $18 billion in revenues, compared to $16 billion…
As enterprises grow more social, organizations can find themselves struggling to align their business goals with the near frictionless flow of information among their workforces. VoloMetrix, a Seattle, Wash.-based social enterprise intelligence startup, is out to help businesses get a…
Redwood City, Calif.-based Actian, a Big Data management company, announced today that it had acquired ParAccel, an analytics database company that specializes in massively parallel processing. One of ParAccel’s major claims to fame is that its technology powers, in part, Amazon’s…
Salesforce flipped the switch today on Social.com, a new offering that provides social ad creation, optimization and campaign automation services for marketers. While a potentially welcome addition for users of Salesforce Marketing Cloud that want to delve into social advertising, it…
The worldwide market for software totaled $342 billion in 2012, a 3.6 percent gain over 2011. However, that rate of growth is less than half of what the industry managed to rack up in 2010 and 2011, reports IDC. Henry…
Salesforce.com is tearing up the enterprise software market, and one startup is hoping to follow in its footsteps with some seed funding from Salesforce’s influential CEO, Marc Benioff. San Francisco, Calif.-based Brandcast provides a cloud service platform, which provides automated content management…
If it seems that practically all customer relationship management (CRM) software makers are going mobile, that’s because they pretty much are, according to market research firm Gartner. Gartner predicts that by 2014, there will be over 1,200 mobile CRM apps…
San Carlos, Calif.-based MarkLogic Corporation has raised $25 million in VC funding, which will go toward increasing its ability to meet rising demand for NoSQL database technology. Fortune 500 companies, in particular, are showing interest in NoSQL, claims MarkLogic. Sequoia Capital and…
Oracle is leveraging in-memory technology to give its business applications a performance boost. In-memory systems are packed with much more DRAM than found in the typical server. This allows application workloads to mostly or entirely reside in system memory and avoid…
Oracle has updated its analytics software slate in an effort to ease and simplify IT management tasks while making business insights easier to discover and visualize. Version 3.0 of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery sports a sleeker user interface with drag-and-drop…
Social enterprise specialist Jive released a new version of its Advanced Gamification Module, which the company says will help boost employee engagement by offering personalized incentives. Jive first launched its Advanced Gamification Module for its Social Business platform in March 2012. The…
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based SiSense, a maker of business intelligence software, announced this week it raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding. Battery Ventures led the round, which also enjoyed the backing of Opus Capital and Genesis Partners.…
Big Data may be dominating the conversation in IT circles, but most businesses just can’t seem to get on board at this point. While conducting a survey of 339 data management pros, SAS and SourceMedia discovered that for most, Big…
Showpad, a Belgium-based startup that makes cloud-based sales presentation software for the iPad, is gearing up for a stateside push. The Showpad platform blends the management of sales content and marketing collateral with an iPad app that can present and…
Big Data marketing and analytics companies aren’t the only ones soaking up the VC funds. Bina Technologies, a Redwood City, Calif.-based Big Data genomics firm, says it has attracted $6.25 million in a round of Series B funding led by…
Zoho never goes long without making updates to its flagship cloud-based CRM software. In Zoho’s last update, in January, it put the emphasis on document management, adding a Document Library module that it promised could serve as a central repository…
The consumerization of Big Data trend continues apace with new software that puts Hadoop-powered analytics into the hands of rank-and-file business users. San Mateo, Calif.-based Platfora today announced that its namesake in-memory business intelligence (BI) platform has finally launched after a six-month…
Email is one software application that’s practically guaranteed to be on the taskbar of every office worker. IBM wants those inboxes to help usher in connected, enterprise social experiences for businesses and their employees. Big Blue just launched IBM Notes…
It’s time for Big Data to make a serious push into the corporate data center, argues MapR Technologies. And the startup is attracting the financial backing to ensure that it stays at the forefront of the movement. San Jose, Calif-based MapR…
Jared Spataro, senior director of Microsoft’s Office division, is constantly fielding the same question. IT execs and managers want to know — some rather demandingly — what direction Microsoft is taking in the wake of its massive acquisition of social enterprise…
Chatter updates are nothing new, but the latest upgrade finally bridges the gap between consumers empowered by social media and mobile customer relationship management (CRM), enabling organizations to dive headlong into the era of “instant engagement,” according to Salesforce Chatter Executive…
Just weeks after giving WebFOCUS BI the Big Data analytics treatment, New York City-based Information Builders today announced the launch of new social media capabilities. The aim is to help organizations better focus their marketing strategies and sniff out new revenue…
Santa Barbara, Calif.-based HG Data, a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) and analytics specialist, is preparing to venture into new territories with a $2 million infusion of capital. EPIC Ventures headed the funding round, which was backed by DoubleClick founder Kevin O’Connor.…
Big Data may have been making big headlines — and sparked more than a few multimillion-dollar deals — in recent years, but according to Gartner, 2013 is the year that Big Data activity will kick into high gear. In a global survey…
Adobe Marketing Cloud is about to grow much more accommodating of mobile devices, including Android smartphones and tablets like the iPad. The company announced today that it is adding new mobile marketing capabilities, enabling customers to better target, reach and measure…
Anaplan, a San Francisco-based enterprise modeling and planning startup, announced today it has raised $30 million in a Series C funding round led by Meritech Capital with participation from Granite Ventures and Shasta Ventures. The infusion of cash will help…
Business intelligence (BI) software provider Information Builders today unveiled three updated offerings aimed at simplifying Big Data analytics for companies struggling to turn their growing stores of data into actionable insights. Social media has emerged as a big source of…
Salesforce is the most popular customer relationship management (CRM) solution, according to a new infographic charting the 20 most popular CRM software solutions by Capterra, a business software resource and recommendation website. In terms of popularity, compiled by a software solution’s customer…
Chartio, a San Francisco-based visual analytics startup, is expanding its platform by adding support for a major source of data for a growing number of businesses. Starting today, Chartio users can connect to Salesforce and use data from the leading…
One of the top 10 business intelligence trends for 2013, based on interviews with experts conducted by Enterprise Apps Today, is the emergence of the data analyst, a kind of cross between a data scientist and a business analyst. George…
Amsterdam-based Big Data search startup Elasticsearch announced it just closed on a Series B round of funding valued at $24 million. Index Ventures headed the round, which was backed by Benchmark Capital, an existing investor, and newcomer SV Angel. The funds,…
Virool, a San Francisco startup that specializes in social video advertising, has raised $6.62 million in an early round of funding. Virool positions its advertising technology as a cost-effective alternative to big-budget social ad platforms. Instead of spending upwards of…
Persado, a marketing and Web advertising software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, today announced that the company closed on a round of Series A funding valued at $15 million. The funding round was led by Bain Capital Ventures. The company’s platform, which it…
New York City-based startup Sailthru today announced that it had raised $19 million to grow its “Smart Data” platform and staff up. The funding round was led by Benchmark Capital, with backing from AOL Ventures, DFJ Gotham and RRE. Sailthru offers businesses…
A new study from enterprise resource planning (ERP) specialist ISF and market research firm IDC indicates that businesses developing customer relationship management (CRM) apps for smartphones and tablets are on the right track. In a survey of 450 C-suite executives worldwide, 31…
Boston-based DataXu announced today that it had raised $27 million in a round of funding led by Thomvest Ventures and backed by Atlas Venture, Flybridge Capital Partners and Menlo Ventures. DataXu’s marketing platform employs Big Data analytics to identify prospective customers, automate…
Google is acquiring online and social marketing and e-commerce specialist Channel Intelligence for $125 million, the latter’s parent company ICG Group announced today. The companies expect to finalize the deal during the current quarter. Channel Intelligence provides Internet and social marketing services…