The 45,000 attendees at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco were served up a program rich with announcements affecting Oracle’s CRM, business intelligence, ERP and enterprise application landscape. Oracle Siebel CRM, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Oracle Business Process…
IBM (NYSE: IBM) made a pair of acquisitions this week aimed at bolstering its fast-growing business analytics practice. The $387 million acquisition of Algorithmics from Fimalac’s Fitch unit will give Big Blue risk analytics software, content and advisory services for…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) says its financial business intelligence, risk management and analytics platform, Oracle Financial Services Data Warehouse, will reduce risk and cost and time to value for financial services companies. The complexity of the average financial services institution, be…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today unveiled the latest version of Oracle CRM On Demand, ratcheting up competition in a market that has already seen major releases from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) this year. CRM On Demand release 19…
Business analytics leader SAS has announced the latest version of SAS Fraud Management. According to the company, the new version provides faster, more versatile and accurate enterprise fraud detection. “Real-time transaction and behavioral monitoring is a critical component of internet…
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced the availability of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting 4.5, the newest version of Oracle’s enterprise solution for insurance rating and underwriting. The latest release extends the product’s capabilities to international insurance markets, with support…
NexJ has managed to carve out a solid niche for itself in the customer relationship management (CRM) market by focusing on a small segment: financial services, insurance and healthcare. The Toronto-based company, which just refreshed its financial services CRM offering,…
Financial services firms often must sort through unique CRM challenges. As companies look to roll out CRM systems, this Search Target report recommends they look for newer-generation CRM systems that can handle both business-to-business (agents) and policyholders. “Financial services firms…
The multi-billion dollar business intelligence (BI) software industry is driven by one basic value proposition — to get users the information they need in a timely fashion even if it’s buried in a data warehouse containing terabytes of customer data…
FinancialForce.com is adding billing and accounting to Salesforce.com’s cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system. The combined FinancialForce.com and Salesforce.com applications are “the first and only end-to-end CRM to accounting solution available on the Force.com platform,” FinancialForce.com claims. Tom Brennan, FinancialForce’s…