Containers and databases seem like an odd mix. Containers offer a lightweight way to run applications, but databases tend to be massive. Yet Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL and Postgres are among the Top 10 technologies running Docker containers, according to cloud…
What does hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP), a database technology that uses in-memory capabilities to perform OLAP (online analytical processing) and OLTP (online transaction processing) at the same time, have to do with the port authority of Hamburg, Germany? One of…
Graph databases, which use graph structures for semantic queries, came into prominence through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. But they’re used for far more now than just linking connections between friends and relatives. Graph databases give organizations the capability…
Thanks to huge growth in data volume, as well as a proliferation of new data sources and data types, enterprises are scrambling to meet pressing data storage and processing needs. Database-as-a-service (DBaaS), which puts data storage and management in the…
Databases are proliferating like, well, cockroaches. The overall database market is expected to reach $50 billion by 2017, according to IDC, with the landscape changing quickly among many new players. Deep, impactful forces are underneath these changes,said Tarun Thakur, co-founder…
Software vendors continue to create data analysis tools for the average business user, eliminating some of the complex or tedious processes, but businesses shouldn’t expect technology to bring about game-changing insight, experts say. “Does software make anyone a great musician?”…
While expensive technology has been part of health care for years, the industry has remained more conservative than other verticals in adopting technology for core business functions. The federal HITECH Act and Affordable Care Act, however, have been forcing providers…
By multiple accounts, IT hiring has slowed in the past few quarters, but those with highly sought-after skills continue to entertain multiple job offers. While IT professionals with hot skills might not be able to name their price, client companies…
Amid all the talk about Big Data, questions keep popping up about how the database administrator (DBA) fits in. The role is changing — and it varies by company, according to Bert Scalzo, database domain expert for Dell. “One of…
If you need service for your car, your washing machine or even your blender, you can take that gear to any number of repair specialists, who have access to documentation and parts from the manufacturer. It’s a far more complicated…
By a variety of measures, technology is the place to be in this modest economic recovery. In a poll IT job site Dice released in June, 73 percent of IT-focused recruiters and hiring managers said their companies will add more…
The mobile apps Sunwise UV Index, which predicts the UV intensities in a four-day weather forecast, and AirNow, which provides air pollution and ozone forecasting are two popular public mobile applications from the Environmental Protection Agency. But the EPA also…
Among the scrappy Web 2.0 startups taking part in Google’s recent OpenSocial announcement, Salesforce.com kind of stood out. Salesforce.com already has a proprietary development language and platform, Apex, launched in January. It also hasAppExchange, an easy and successful way for…
In 1980, Bill Gates had a brilliant idea: make a fortune providing the operating system platform for the first PCs and let others build applications on top of it. In 2006, Marc Benioff has the same idea. On Tuesday, salesforce.com…
Online merchants had a great holiday shopping season. But they’d better watch out: Customer satisfaction is dropping. That’s the verdict of two separate reports released on Tuesday. The e-tailing group and ForeSee Results both found evidence that online merchants could…
With online ads set to take an even bigger bite of the media pie in 2006, interactive media powerhouse Yahoo wants to show clients just how well it works. Thanks to a partnership announced Friday, Yahoo’s account executives will begin…
Don’t you hate it when your new CRM application crashes your system? Enterprises using Salesforce.com’s hosted applications will soon be able to crash-test their deployments without fear by using Sandbox, an optional service expected this quarter. Customers can use Sandbox…
Yahoo Shopping introduced “social commerce” in time for the holiday shopping season. Yahoo (Quote, Chart) calls its new offering the “Shoposphere”; like the blogosphere, it aims to be a world where users connect and link in multiple ways. Forrester Research…
A new company announced its launch on Tuesday, offering a sales compensation management application on demand. Xactly will provide Xactly Incent on the software-as-service model to automate the process of setting and calculating sales commissions. The service is designed for…
Online sales are booming. But even the top-grossing e-tailers may be leaving money on the table, a study reported on Wednesday.“You can have strong online revenues but if you’re not engaging site visitors in the way they want, you are…
UPDATED: Salesforce.com plugs its on-demand customer relationship management software as easy to install and easy to customize. But customers like Merrill Lynch still could use some consulting help, evidently. On Tuesday, San Francisco-based Salesforce.com announced that Merrill Lynch had signed…
SAN FRANCISCO — When Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff coined the company tagline “the end of software,” he wasn’t kidding. He’s planning to eat Microsoft’s lunch. Step by step, Salesforce.com is building a Web services platform that aims to replace a…
Salesforce.com launched the sforce Developer Program for Microsoft Office, featuring a set of free tools and resources to help its on-demand CRM software play nice with the suite. Wednesday’s announcement came as part of Microsoft’s Office Systems Developers Conference, taking…
For better or worse, e-commerce lacks human sales help. Online broker Esurance hopes a virtual customer service rep can get users over the initial hump of signing on. The San Francisco-based Esurance is the e-commerce operation of White Mountains Insurance,…
Microsoft’s business solutions group has launched its latest ERP application for the mid-market. Solomon 6.0 is targeting businesses with heavy lifting computing needs with projects or services.In this release, project management and accounting have become one integrated business system. Integrating…
Interest is high in salesforce.com’s initial public offering. On Tuesday, it raised the expected opening price a second time, from a high of $8.50 per share to $11, in expectation of raking in around $110 million dollars. The San Francisco-based…
HP is lining up to help suppliers keep track of everything from firelogs to toy fire trucks using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The systems and printer vendor is just the latest major tech play to shine a spotlight on…
Long-time CRM player Siebel Systems shook up its senior ranks today with news that its founder Tom Siebel has relinquished the chief executive role. Former IBM senior executive and vice president Michael J. Lawrie will take over as CEO. Lawrie,…
Salesforce.com has amended its regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its upcoming IPO with an offer of 10 million shares. The amended S1 filing prices the shares at between $7.50 and $8.50, which would value its initial…
Multi-channel consumer electronics retailer TigerDirect added a new way for customers to pay with the addition of the “Bill Me Later” service from I4 Commerce, the company said in a statement Tuesday. The Timonium, Md.-based payment service provider today announced…
Salesforce.com users who logged on Friday morning might have noticed a new link. Clicking on it automatically added a salesforce.com menu to Microsoft Office 2000 or 2003 Word, Excel and Outlook. Salesforce.com’s Office Editions integrates the company’s hosted CRM application…
Bolstering its technology portfolio and customer list, CRM vendor KANA said Monday it would acquire Hipbone for an undisclosed sum. Kana provides knowledge management, e-mail marketing, customer contact center operations, marketing and analytics applications, while Hipbone enables live chat, co-browsing…
E-mail marketing technology firm Responsys Monday launched its Marketing Performance Center, a new Web-based reporting and analytics tool aimed at providing sophisticated and in-depth analysis of multiple metrics across multi-channel marketing campaigns. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Responsys will provide Marketing Performance…
Hosted applications provider Salesforce.com Tuesday took the wraps off of a new developer’s tool kit for making Internet-based business apps. Dubbed “sforce,” the company says the platform lets software engineers use the tools they love when writing programs. The reason…