How does Tibco follow up on a big in-memory analytics and visualization software release? By diving deep into the code for a radical overhaul. The result, says Leslie Miller, product marketing manager for Tibco Spotfire, is an in-memory analytics platform that’s…
Despite an abandoned attempt to trademark the term, Salesforce is not slowing down in its quest to become synonymous with “social enterprise.” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is not shy about taking big, bold steps to push his company’s social enterprise…
Infor, a provider of CRM, ERP and other business applications, launched Inforce Marketing, a marketing automation system built on the Salesforce platform, at this week’s Dreamforce event. According to Infor, the software integrates deeply with Salesforce to streamline the marketing…
Oracle is once again stirring things up in the heated human capital management (HCM) space. The company is acquiring New York City-based SelectMinds, a cloud-based provider of social recruiting services, for an undisclosed amount. The deal serves to further strengthen Oracle…
OpTier, a New York City-based business transaction management specialist, announced new software that promises to deliver real-time, Big Data analytics with huge savings in both time and cost. According to the company, its new OpTier Big Data Analytics product can…
IBM is blending two of the hottest areas in enterprise software today — Big Data analytics and social media-enabled apps — in an effort to derive revenue-boosting business value from data generated by increasingly social workforces and marketplaces. Big Blue…
Epicor is following up on its cloud-based Epicor ERP Express Edition product — and revealing its enterprise software ambitions — with a new edition for midsized organizations. The Chicago-based enterprise resource planning software specialist today unveiled Epicor ERP, a multi-tenant…
HANA, SAP’s in-memory database platform, continues to play an increasingly big role in the German software giant’s strategy for both its on-premise and cloud enterprise applications. Noting that cloud instances of HANA on Amazon Web Services have proven popular with…
HootSuite, a social network management specialist, has acquired rival cross-platform social account management app maker Seesmic for an undisclosed amount. With the buy, the company welcomes a coveted user group to the HootSuite ecosystem: more enterprise customers. In a blog post…
Klout, a startup that offers a service that helps individuals and companies measure their social clout, brought the concept of social media influence out of the shadows. San Francisco-based Kred wants to shed even more light on the idea for users of…
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…
Business intelligence software maker Tableau is broadening its reach in Big Data analytics with a newly-announced version of its namesake software. Tableau now offers features MapR support, giving the analytics platform direct access to data on MapR’s enterprise-grade Hadoop distribution. According to…
What Yammer acquisition? cNewsGator is signaling there’s plenty of room for other social enterprise players on Microsoft’s court by rolling out a new version of the Social Sites plugin for SharePoint. Between major product revamps that encompass both Microsoft’s consumer…
Yammer is teaming with Kanjoya, an emotion-aware sentiment analysis specialist, to help organizations draw insights into what workforces are really thinking and feeling. For Microsoft, which bought the enterprise social network provider last month, it’s an encouraging sign that the Yammer ecosystem remains…
Do.com, a social task management and collaboration service known as Manymoon when it was acquired by Salesforce, today unveiled two new features that add a social twist to contact management and enable deal progress tracking for sales organizations. The social task…
Oracle hit a major milestone today with Release 20 of its cloud-based On Demand CRM platform. With this latest version, says Anthony Lye, SVP, Cloud Applications Strategy for Oracle, the company continues on a trajectory of constant, customer-driven updates. In October, CRM On…
While early “social listening” software focused largely on simply monitoring customer communications, a new breed of applications promise to help companies more actively manage their social media activities. Social CRM provider QuestBack this week launched Listen & Act, a social engagement…
SAP today announced its “best ever second quarter” based on software revenues that crossed the €1 billion mark, or an estimated $1.2 billion USD, as financial services and retail organizations snapped up the company’s offerings and drove 60 percent of…
CRM emerged as a big priority this year for both CIOs and CEOs, according to recent surveys from Gartner. Organizations are seeking out platforms that enhance collaboration, improve sales and deliver superior customer experiences. And they’re spending accordingly. Before they…
That was fast. During its Q4 2012 earnings call, Microsoft said it had completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer, a provider of enterprise social networking software. While outlining Office 2013’s new social features, particularly the new social media-enabled People Card…
33Across, a New York City-based startup at the intersection of two of the biggest trends in tech — Big Data and social marketing — just closed a round of financing led by Pelion Venture Partners. The transaction is valued at…
Business intelligence software provider Alteryx is setting out to help businesses derive value from ballooning stores of digital information even if their payrolls reveal a noticeable lack of data scientists. Updates to its Strategic Analytics product, which picked up enterprise cloud connectors earlier this…
It’s shaping up to be the spring and summer of social CRM acquisitions, several of them made by Oracle. Yesterday Oracle announced it was buying Involver, a company that provides social marketing applications. The purchase comes barely a month after…
Companies are experiencing challenges in offering effective customer experience management across multiple channels, including contact centers and social networks. That’s a concern, given a recent study from NICE that found consumers are increasing the numbers of customer service channels they…
Some utilities are upgrading their electrical grids, replacing neighborhood meter readers with smart meters that continually monitor household power consumption. According to a new study from Oracle, that could turn staid old electrical companies into Big Data powerhouses. Oracle surveyed…
Salesforce.com’s social CRM buying spree continues unabated with the acquisition of Halifax-based GoInstant for over $70 million in cash, according to reports. GoInstant’s “co-browsing” technology allows groups to browse the Web collaboratively, securely and in real-time. Co-browsing sessions are accessible via a standard…
It’s official. In an announcement that surprised no one, Microsoft confirmed that it is acquiring Yammer, a social enterprise startup based in San Francisco, for $1.2 billion in an all-cash deal. Yammer creates private, cloud-based social networks for businesses, primarily by using…
San Francisco-based MemSQL released a new database that the startup says will give companies struggling with Big Data the benefits of SQL at NoSQL speeds. MemSQL was founded last year by former Facebook staffer Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov, who served as a Microsoft SQL…
IBM is delivering new predictive analytics software aimed at providing businesses with tools that enable instantaneous, insight-driven decisions in real-time. Called IBM Analytical Decision Management, the software applies automated analytics processes to a wide variety of data, regardless of where it…
It’s shaping up to be a good year for enterprise application makers according to a forecast released by Gartner. In 2012, the overall enterprise software market will reach $120.4 billion, a 4.5 percent increase over the $115.2 billion generated in…
News that Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire San Francisco-based Yammer for approximately $1 billion lit up the Twittersphere on Thursday, appropriately enough. According to a Bloomberg report, the companies are close to striking a deal. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Yammer has accepted…
In 2011, the top 10 CRM application vendors captured nearly half the $19.1 billion customer relationship management (CRM) software market, according to new data released today by IDC. IBM’s CRM efforts have started to pay off. Big Blue managed to crack…
Actuate is not done forging alliances as it looks to align its open source BIRT business intelligence platform with the booming Hadoop-based Big Data ecosystem. The company announced today that it is teaming with Pervasive Software to bring ActuateOne’s BIRT-based…
Oracle revealed today that it is acquiring Boulder, Colo.-based Collective Intellect, a cloud-based provider of social intelligence services, for an undisclosed amount. It’s a sure-fire sign that the social CRM market is hot and getting hotter as businesses seek solutions that…
Zurmo, an open source CRM project, hit a big milestone with the recent release of the Beta version of its software. One of the application’s features is a points and leveling system that adds a dash of play to the…
If there is anything as big as Big Data, it’s enterprise interest in using it to create business advantage. To satisfy this outsized interest, Enterprise Apps Today published two Buyer’s Guides on the topic: one focused on the Big Data…
In a sure sign the social CRM market is booming, Oracle today announced it is acquiring cloud-based social marketing specialist Vitrue. Although the companies have not officially disclosed the deal’s worth, TechCrunch pegs the transaction at $300 million. The firm’s claim to…
SAP made quite a splash when it poured billions into acquiring cloud human capital management (HCM) provider SuccessFactors in December. But the German software giant was nowhere near finished staking a claim in the business cloud services market. SAP late yesterday announced…
Salesforce is adding real-time chat and screensharing functionality to its Chatter platform with offerings called, fittingly enough, Chatter Messenger and Chatter Screensharing. The news arrives just days after the Salesforce announced impressive first quarter fiscal 2013 results. The cloud CRM specialist…
SAP’s HANA ecosystem gets a little bigger today as Opera Solutions revealed that its Signal Hub tech and applications are coming to the in-memory analytics platform at the SAPPHIRE Now conference in Orlando, Fla. Opera Solutions is a provider of…
If your business hasn’t already devoted some IT resources to Big Data, there’s a good chance that it soon will. A new study from data integration software specialist Informatica reveals that 70 percent of organizations are currently considering, planning, testing or running…