News: May 2013
Industry and product news on CRM, Business Intelligence, ERP, supply chain management, and other enterprise applications. - Archive for May 2013
IBM Aims Big Data Analytics at HR Function
IBM rolls out new Smarter Workforce analytics services to help HR execs boost productivity and retain talent.
Salesforce Guns for Corporate Intranets with Company Communities
With its new social- and mobile-enabled offering, Salesforce hopes businesses will say good-bye to their stale corporate internets.
Pronto Furthers BI for Everyone Mission with Xi 710
Improved mobile support, Office integration and “hundreds of improvements” help put business intelligence into practically every …
Big Data App Startup WibiData Raises Millions
Big Data application development company aims to usher in the next generation of big scale enterprise software.
Splunk, Hortonworks Team for Big Data BI
Splunk and Hortonworks seek to help businesses more readily put their Big Data stores to productive use. In addition, Hortonworks introduced …
IBM Watson Brings Big Data Smarts to Customer Service
Watson is venturing beyond trivial pursuits. IBM's Big Data analytics powerhouse now powers a cloud-based customer service solution.
Alteryx Raises $12M to 'Humanize' Big Data
Hot on the heels of its Alteryx Strategic Analytics Platform 8.5 release, the Big Data analytics company raises additional funds to make Big …
G2 Crowd Shakes up Enterprise Software Buying with Peer Reviews
A startup called G2 Crowd wants to help enterprises streamline and improve their software buying processes by offering a service based on …
Jive Delivers Social Inbox with StreamOnce
Jive's social collaboration platform gains a new unified inbox, thanks to a social startup's newly-acquired technology.
SAP Fiori: Consumerization of Enterprise Software Comes to ERP
iPads welcome. SAP's ERP slate gets new modern, user- and mobile-friendly apps to help keep workers productive.
IBM Consolidates Analytics Apps with Blue Insight
IBM is now using its own software to help build a smarter enterprise
Twitter Buys Big Data Analytics Startup Lucky Sort
Another Big Data startup gets swept up by an industry bigwig. This time social media giant Twitter comes calling.
Crafter Open Source CMS Goes Solo
New standalone organization created to support the open source Crafter content management system.
Oracle Intros In-Memory JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Apps
In pursuit of the real-time enterprise, Oracle gives JD Edwards project management and sales apps the in-memory treatment.
SAP Unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud
Blistering in-memory app performance meets cloud delivery in SAP's latest offering for enterprises, HANA Enterprise Cloud.
SalesFUSION 8 Blurs CRM and Marketing Automation
Business software firm extends popular CRM platforms by deeply integrating sales and marketing workflows and capabilities.
Citrix Adds IM, Video Chat to Podio Collaboration Suite
Podio users will be able to initiate chats and hold video calls with their colleagues, as Citrix expands its collaboration platform.
Salesforce Communities Shakes up Customer Service
Salesforce is signaling the end of old-school customer forums with a social offering that pulls customer interactions directly into Chatter.
Cloudera Accelerates Big Data with Impala GA
Hadoop isn't just for batch processing of Big Data queries anymore. Cloudera introduces an open source project that enables real-time …
Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Help Skytree Land $18M
UPS and Sun's former CEO bet that a machine learning software company can open new, business-friendly frontiers in Big Data analytics.