Oracle announced today that it plans to acquire Dublin, Calif.-based Taleo for $1.9 billion, or $46 a share. The move will bring Taleo’s cloud-based talent management technology to the Oracle Public Cloud platform. “Human capital management has become a strategic…
SOS Online Backup on Monday took the wraps off SOS Collaborate Private Cloud, a cloud-based document syncing and collaboration service geared to helping enterprises provide a secure alternative to unauthorized use of public cloud sharing services. The El Segundo, Calif.-based…
At one point or another, every user has struggled with a help button to try and figure out how to get their applications and desktops to do what they need it to do. A new idea from Ubuntu Linux vendor…
EnterpriseAppsToday’s Ann All spoke with Stuart Chandler, vice president of the BPM Practice for Virtusa Corporation, an IT services company that provides consulting, technology and outsourcing services, about this shift. All: You mentioned Virtusa is seeing shifts in how clients…
Seeking to get its foot in the door of the human capital management (HCM) space, Salesforce.com Friday signed a definitive agreement to acquire cloud-based social performance management specialist Rypple. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Salesforce.com and Rypple…
ERP market leader SAP AG on Saturday announced that its SAP America subsidiary would acquire cloud-based human capital management (HCM) specialist SuccessFactors as part of its plan to create an advanced end-to-end offering of cloud and on-premise solutions for managing business…
Most, if not all, mid-to-large organizations have some form of customer relationship management (CRM) system. Many of these same companies also have or are considering business process management (BPM) software, typically to improve the customer service experience. But do you…
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled a range of new solutions spanning business intelligence, in-memory analytics, data warehousing and mobile apps. The announcements, made at Sapphire Now and SAP TechEd in Madrid, highlight SAP’s shift away from its core ERP market…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has unveiled a new task and project management service based on the company’s acquisition of Manymoon. Do.com, a free simple collaboration service that allows users to launch projects, assign tasks and invite others to join and collaborate,…
Data is at the root of good decision making, but how do you get the right data in the right place to make those decisions? IBM (NYSE:IBM) is enhancing its software portfolio with new capabilities for analytics and business intelligence.…