SAP (NYSE: SAP) said it will better meet the needs of the smallest businesses with new hosted subscription and starter packages for the SAP Business One ERP solutions for small businesses. The new starter packages let SAP channel partners offer…
CA (NASDAQ: CA) has expanded its Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution by incorporating collaboration capabilities with Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) Chatter integration. Salesforce Chatter is the cloud CRM vendor’s Facebook-like private social network for enterprise collaboration. By integrating the CA…
According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Business Intelligence Tools Tracker, the worldwide business intelligence (BI) market generated more than $4 billion in revenues in the second half of 2010. This marks the first time the market has surpassed the $4 billion…
Actuate (NASDAQ: BIRT) has announced support and services for Hadoop and MapReduce in the new release of BIRT 3.7, the company’s open-source enterprise business intelligence toolset. Hadoop is an open source framework for managing vast amounts of distributed data (big…
Today’s college grads are ill-prepared to meet business needs for data-savvy workers. Even as the growth of big data is skyrocketing, universities worldwide are struggling, and too frequently failing, to adequately prepare students to meet the demand for employees skilled…
Social CRM is one of those new words that some label a buzzword while others look to find merit in the new technology and applications. For the most part, social CRM is a CRM (customer relationship management) strategy that is…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has expanded its software portfolio to help organizations embrace the power of social business with the announcement of a new version of IBM Connections — a social networking platform with real-time compliance capabilities. The new IBM Connections…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has entered into an agreement to acquire web experience management (WEM) company FatWire Software. FatWire is the maker of the well-known FatWire Content Server, a web content management (WCM) platform. It provides tools to speed and streamline…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced the general availability of its HANA in-memory analytics appliance software. The release, according to SAP, heralds a new generation of analytics, business applications and IT simplification with SAP’s in-memory computing technology. SAP’s High-performance Analytic Appliance…
HP (NYSE: HPQ) acquired Vertica earlier this year to tap the fast-growing market for big data analytics and business intelligence. Now Vertica is gearing up for its first major release as an HP company. Vertica today unveiled Vertica 5.0, the…