12 Open Source CRM Options
Talk about customer relationship management (CRM) software and you’ll probably be thinking about on-premise software packages or software-as-a-service…
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Comprehensive Guide to Field Service Software
Field service software is a hot area right now and getting hotter as companies recognize the importance of…
Infor Partners with Whole Foods on Retail-Specific Cloud ERP
Last year Infor began rolling out cloud ERP software targeted to specific industry verticals, including solutions for the…
Internet of Things Adds Intelligence to Supply Chain
The supply chain is getting a lot smarter, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). This added intelligence…
8 CRM Trends and Predictions
What’s going on in CRM? What are the big trends that appeared in 2016 and what can we…
Where Is AI Headed in the Enterprise?
Talk about artificial intelligence, and most people think about machines that can reason. In a business context that…
On Way to Omni-Channel, Retailers Try Beacons and More
Bringing diverse e-commerce and brick-and-mortar businesses under a single umbrella as an omni-channel enterprise is a complicated exercise,…
Chief Data Officer Role Continues to Evolve
Chief data officers (CDOs) are playing a strategic role in many — though not all — organizations, thanks…
Mobile App Eases ATM Field Service
While there are lots of great off-the-shelf field service software applications on the market today, from the likes…
7 Notable Data Visualization Tools
Data visualization has come a long way in recent years. Where once you might get an occasional bar…
Hadoop Evolution: What You Need to Know
It’s been a decade since Hadoop became an Apache software project and released version 0.1.0. The open source…
6 Mobile CRM Mistakes You Do Not Want to Make
Sales people are among the most mobile folks at any company. So it’s no surprise that mobile CRM…
11 Cloud ERP Software Options
Enterprise Apps Today recently covered what the top four ERP vendors in terms of overall market share –…
8 Must-Have Two-Tier ERP Features
The two-tier ERP strategy trend, in which companies run a primary ERP system on-premise with one or more…
6 Ways to Profit from Data Analytics
“Store everything” and “analyze everything” are popular IT mantras, leading companies to build data lakes and use data…
Retailers Not Quite Ready for the Cloud
Retailers have a love/I’m not sure yet relationship with the cloud, according to retail industry observers. While companies…
13 Ways to Improve Your Supply Chain Management
Whether you are looking for help in choosing the right supply chain management software or advice on how…
Predictive Analytics Software Buying Guide
While many vendors sell analytics software, not all of them provide predictive analytics, a far more specialized field.…
Getting Started with Predictive Analytics in 5 Easy Steps
If you want to know what’s likely to happen in your business, you need predictive analytics. Predictive analytics…
Mobile Apps Shaping Customer Service
A growing number of companies are offering customer service capabilities via mobile apps, with vendors like Salesforce providing…
Startup Spotlight: CrowdFlower’s Data Enrichment Platform
There are not enough data scientists to go around for companies hoping to capitalize on their growing streams…
Bringing Home the Beacon
Beacons have been in general use for about two years, with retailers using them in everything from vending…
How Beacons Can Enhance CRM
Beacon technology was supposed to revolutionize the way that businesses interacted with their customers, but so far it…
5 Mobile Marketing Trends
With smartphone penetration reaching 77 percent, according to a recent comScore report, product and service providers, technology companies…
CRM Market Leaders? It’s Complicated
CRM is the hottest area in enterprise applications today, with sales in excess of $23 billion in 2014,…
7 Significant ERP Trends
The ERP landscape has been undergoing big changes in recent years. Accordingly, Enterprise Apps Today interviewed several experts…
Infor Acquiring GT Nexus to Further Cloud Ambitions
Infor looks serious about its plans to become a leading cloud services company. Today the ERP supplier announced…
ERP Under Attack at Black Hat [VIDEO]
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) from SAP and other monolithic enterprise applications from big vendors like Oracle are at…
6 Lessons from IoT Ninjas
The Internet of Things (IoT) is shaping up to be a bona fide phenomenon, with Gartner estimating that…
5 Lessons from Data Analytics Ninjas
Not long ago Enterprise Apps Today highlighted four data analytics success stories, companies that are successfully using data…
Is Hadoop Maturity in Sight?
There is no escaping the outpouring of hype about Hadoop. Some see it as heading toward maturity in…
Channel Data Management Sheds Light on Supply Chain
Channel data management is a relatively new discipline that is starting to catch on in tech and some…
Why Walmart Doesn’t Have Legacy IT
As CIO of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart’s Karenann Terrell handles her share of IT challenges, some unique…
Salesforce Brings Big Data to Analytics Cloud
You need Big Data to generate big insights – or so a growing number of folks seem to…
3 Tips to Boost Mobile App Adoption
By Mark Lorion, Apperian Enterprise mobile apps can be transformational for every department and across every industry. But…
Epicor Spinning off Retail Business
Big changes are under way at Epicor Software, a provider of ERP, CRM and other types of business…
Mobile App Use Continues to Evolve: Good Technology
In the early days of mobile apps, the prevailing wisdom was that people would consume content, but not…
Should You Build an Apple Watch App?
By Glenn Gruber, Propelics The allure of Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS) is strong. And whether it be “a-loo-min-ium”…
8 Trends Boosting Supply Chain Efficiency
As the supply chain becomes more complex with suppliers, their customers and consumers interacting with each other across…
Where Are Mobile Payments Headed?
Apple has garnered much of the mobile payments hype following the introduction of Apple Pay last October and…
How to Get a Human Capital Management Project Funded
The CFO and the human resources executive are the Mars and Venus of the enterprise, which can make…
How Is Hadoop Evolving to Meet Big Data Needs?
Hadoop just keeps on growing. According to Allied Market Research, the Hadoop market is worth around $3 billion…
Splice Machine, RedPoint Global Team on Omnichannel Marketing Solution
While retailers are investing in technology designed to facilitate omni-channel marketing strategies, many are struggling to deliver on…
9 Tech Trends Transforming Retail
With the continuing evolution of mobile and other technologies, the shift to omni-channel strategies and continuing evolution of…
Analyzing Big Data: General Purpose Tool or Domain-Specific App?
By Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Databricks The explosion of data across the enterprise has led to an increased focus on…
10 CRM Predictions for 2015
When we surveyed experts about CRM trends, cloud, integration with analytics and speed of deployment are among the…
Enterprises Are Leading the Way in Wearable Technology
Business technology is rarely seen as “sexy.” Yet despite the recent focus on the consumerization of IT, the…
The Down Low on Data Lakes
Data lakes are the latest incarnation of the democratize data for business theme. The idea is simple: Pool…
Business Intelligence Getting More Pervasive: BARC
For years companies have indicated they wanted to take business intelligence and analytics out of the purview of…
Loyalty Program Leaders Leverage Data Analytics
Most people have wallets loaded with loyalty program cards and/or smartphones loaded with loyalty apps. Yet most companies…