F&A Process Automation Is Focus of Host Analytics Release
Finance and accounting professionals don’t have time for “mundane processes” said Alex Ortiz, head of Product Marketing for…
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3 Ways IT Teams Can Help Businesses Using Automation
By Gregory Horvath, KPMG LLP Automation is a hot topic, and something we’re all coming to expect in…
Review: Xamarin.Forms for Mobile App Development
While the “bring your own device” (BYOD) movement is giving many CIOs headaches over security, it also represents…
8 Keys to Enterprise App Store Success
Enterprise apps stores offer a convenient portal that allows employees to download a selection of tested and trusted…
Mobile App vs. Paper: No Contest
By Steve Brykman, Propelics Many organizations still use pen and paper as the preferred platform for many, if…
How to Buy Cloud Finance Apps
The cloud has invaded many areas of the enterprise, and recently it has been the turn of finance…
8 Ways to Make Software Licensing Agreements Work for You
By Scott D. Rosenberg, CEO Miro Consulting This is an exciting, and challenging, time to be a CIO…
Host Analytics’ App Narrows Finance and Sales Divide
Many sales teams continue to eschew analytics software and use Excel spreadsheets for their sales forecasting and trend…
4 Apps that Make it Easier to Use PowerPoint
The PowerPoint presentation is a fixture of corporate life. So it’s no surprise that third-party vendors create products…
SoftWatch’s Analytics Service Targets Software Licensing Costs
SoftWatch, a company that earlier this year introduced an analytics application that tracks usage of Microsoft Office across…
Application Performance Management Buying Guide
Because application performance management (APM) is a complex area influenced by a multitude of factors, trying to sum…
Review: Visual Studio 2013 for Enterprise App Development
Every enterprise IT organization develops and maintains some number of custom applications. In the vast majority of organizations…
Startup Spotlight: Lua’s Mobile Coordination Software
Startups are not for the faint of heart. That is not a problem for Michael DeFranco, founder and…
7 Apps for Simplifying Project Management
Every project needs to have someone in charge in order to succeed. The larger the project and the…
IT Getting a Grip on Mobile Apps
Many folks believe the enterprise mobility trend has left IT organizations vainly struggling to contain rogue mobile devices…
Oracle Expands Enterprise Management
Oracle this week is updating its Oracle Enterprise Manager platform with a new update that builds on existing…
Dell Services Adds New Enterprise Mobility Partners
Enterprise adoption of mobility appears strong, judging from results of a Good Techology survey that found a 54…
7 Tips for Getting a Great Software Deal
By Scott D. Rosenberg, CEO Miro Consulting With the fiscal year-end rapidly approaching for both Oracle (May 31)…
inContact Updates Contact Center Software with New Integration, Reporting
inContact has released the first of two enhancements to its cloud-based contact center software planned for 2014. Highlights…
CDW Aims to Fill Mobile App Gap
Both Google Play and Apple’s iOS App Store offer options that allow companies to distribute proprietary applications to…
Clari Launches Mobile Sales Platform
Clari, provider of a mobile-first sales productivity platform, is releasing its product, which it says offers an easy-to-use…
How to Control Email Before It Controls You
Email – especially business email – has gotten a bad name, as anyone who has been the helpless…
InsightSquared Intros Analytics for QuickBooks
InsightSquared, a provider of business analytics software for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), has introduced a QuickBooks analytics…
SMAC, Automation Drive SMB Productivity: CompTIA
The technologies collectively known as SMAC – social, mobile, analytics and cloud – are impacting business in ways…
Adaptive Planning Gets New Brand
Adaptive Planning, a provider of cloud-based business and financial analytics, is changing its brand name to Adaptive Insights,…
OpenText’s Enterprise Information Management Software Gets Social
OpenText, a Canada-based provider of enterprise information management (EIM) software, has updated its OpenText Tempo product line with…
DIY App Builders: a Buying Guide
Many companies’ IT departments are strapped for cash and human resources, which means that business users don’t always…
3 Approaches to Building Mobile Apps: Which Is Best?
You can blame it on the late Steve Jobs, or on BYOD programs or anything else that comes…
Top IT Organizations Choose Standardization vs. SaaS
Customization has long been considered a practice best avoided in enterprise software, due to the belief it drives…
Importance of Application Performance Management
Cyber Monday is one of the most important shopping days for e-retailers looking to grow sales and expand…
Worst ‘Shadow’ IT Offender? IT
When addressing the problem of so-called “shadow” IT – the use of unauthorized business applications, a trend facilitated…
Project Portfolio Management Buying Guide
Projects: Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. At any one time, any organization seems to have…
Testing Mobile Apps: Addressing the Challenge
By Shoeb Javed Enterprise mobility is becoming increasingly important as companies move to provide mobile users with access…
Joomla 3.2 Adds Version Control, Other Improvements
Open source content management system (CMS) Joomla today introduced Joomla 3.2, which offers a revamped extension development and…
Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft in the Enterprise?
Microsoft has long been king of the enterprise software arena via its Microsoft Office suite which just about…
Netskope Helps Companies Keep Tabs on Cloud Apps
Enterprises find much to like about cloud-based software applications, including lower cost, ease of deployment and added flexibility.…
Beyond Email: 5 Functions Coming to Mobile Apps
Despite all the hype around mobile applications, the predominant functions continue to be organizing business contacts, scheduling, keeping…
Sage Transitions ERP onto the Cloud
Sage has been in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and accounting software business since the 1980s, focusing on…
Adaptive Planning Adds Collaboration to Financial Planning Software
Cloud analytics provider Adaptive Planning has introduced a new workflow tool called Process Tracker that it promises will…
Citrix Switches on Podio Video Chat
As promised when Citrix first announced new messaging upgrades to its social collaboration platform in May, the company…
Marketing Clouds: Salesforce, Oracle, IBM Battle It Out
In a year when software is driving IT spending increases, marketing software is all the rage. You practically…
IBM Aims SmartCloud Analytics at the C-Suite
High-level executives aren’t only bigwigs around the office, they are also emerging as VIPs in IBM’s efforts to drive adoption…
KnowledgeAdvisors Takes on HR with Talent Analytics Suite
The market for human capital management (HCM) solutions is showing no signs of slowing down. Today, KnowledgeAdvisors announced…
5 Top Tablet Conferencing Apps
As mentioned in an earlier article, tablet-based conferencing is a rapidly growing niche of the Web conferencing market.…
Canvas Raises Millions for Paper-Killing Business Apps
Canvas is helping businesses crumple up and toss away their paper-based workflows, enabling a growing number of workers to…
IBM Aims Big Data Analytics at HR Function
Employees generate and share a lot of data. IBM is banking that human resource (HR) executives and managers…
Salesforce Guns for Corporate Intranets with Company Communities
Ancient content, moldy blogs, wikis piled high with digital dust… Those are just some of the signs…
Getting Business Travel Expenses under Control with HCM
All of us complain about the travails of travel, particularly airline travel. Long lines at security, baggage fees,…
Crafter Open Source CMS Goes Solo
The open source Crafter content management system (CMS) is getting a new life as a standalone operating entity.…
Oracle Intros In-Memory JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apps
SAP HANA isn’t the only in-memory game in town. Oracle is also leveraging in-memory technology and new software…