Within the next five years, CIOs will have to deal with thousands of cloud applications and millions of mobile devices and sensors. And – shudder — they will have to integrate everything. Andrew Leigh, a product vice president at Jitterbit,…
In Macy’s latest annual report, the company refers to itself as an “omni-channel retail organization operating stores and websites.” It also no longer breaks out its sales by channel. While this shift represents an improvement over a not-so-distant past in…
It can feel like a little like executive overload, with companies adding emerging roles like chief digital officer and chief customer officer to the more traditional ranks of chief executive officers, chief financial officers and chief operating officers. As more…
Enterprise apps stores offer a convenient portal that allows employees to download a selection of tested and trusted applications – usually, but not exclusively, for mobile devices. The benefits of enterprise app stores are well known, but it’s still early…
NetSuite, which is known primarily for its cloud-based ERP software, has acquired London-based Venda, a provider of e-commerce solutions, in a move intended to expand the capabilities of NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce software and also to support NetSuite’s expansion into the European…
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates Enterprise data is no longer restricted to transaction-based and other legacy systems. Companies have broadened their data sources and sharing platforms to include mobile, cloud and social channels. Many companies are embracing the “bring your…
We recently published Top Ten Trends in Cloud ERP, and we’ve also looked at how ERP giants like Oracle and SAP are approaching the cloud. Here we follow up with a buying guide that aims to educate users about evaluating…
Mobile ERP has been on the enterprise radar for a while now, with experts telling us companies will begin to adopt it in significant numbers. In our list of top 8 ERP trends for 2014, for example, Panorama Consulting Managing…
Nearly a year after launching a “behavior lab” aimed at helping it better address the needs of enterprises, Badgeville, a provider of gamification software, is introducing Badgeville for Communities, a solution for adding game, reputation and social mechanics to community…
Co-browsing offers customers an experience similar to screen sharing except it remains in the browser and does not share information other than the page being browsed. Pegasystems is investing in this technology by purchasing Profeatable Corporation, a startup that makes…