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Okta infuses behavioral analytics into its mobile authentication service
Smartphones and tablets have helped enterprise workers become a lot more productive when away from the office, but the sheer number of end-points used to access the corporate network at any given time makes it difficult for administrators to track who’s trying to access what effectively. That’s the challenge Okta Inc. hopes to alleviate with its ...
Demandbase picks up data hoarding startup WhoToo to finetune B2B marketing
In a time when data has never been more important to corporate marketing efforts, Demandbase Inc.’s latest acquisition shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise. The business-to-business targeting powerhouse is paying an undisclosed amount to pick up a startup called WhoToo Inc. that aggregates metrics about online audiences for its customers to consume centrally. The information ...
FiscalNote takes its policy prediction platform global with first acquisition
When an organization grows past a certain point, the demands of running a competitive enterprise are joined by a whole new set of challenges at the legislative level, where large companies are highly susceptible to certain changes due to sheer amount of business they have at stake. It’s those companies that FiscalNote Inc. hopes to ...
Cloudera backs Spark as successor to MapReduce in Hadoop
Hadoop is entering a new chapter in its evolution with the launch of an ambitious community effort from Cloudera Inc. that aims to replace MapReduce as its default data processing engine. The proposed successor is predictably Apache Spark, the speedy in-memory alternative that has been gaining steam among adopters in the last few years. The Hadoop distributor ...
InsideSales.com opens up its predictive analytics engine to enterprises
InsideSales.com Inc. is turning its cloud-based lead processing service into a platform with the introduction of a new application programming interface that allows customers to tap the predictive capabilities of the underlying analytics engine in their own software. It’s aimed as much at fellow vendors as everyday organizations. Neuralytics, as the company dubs its technology, offers ...
Microsoft previews Cortana, Office integration in Dynamics CRM 2016
Microsoft Corp. is making a strategic pit stop amid CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious push to the cloud this morning with the announcement of a major upcoming update to the on-premise version of Dynamics CRM that will incorporate a host of enhancements from the cloud edition. Chief among them is better integration with the Cortana Analytics ...
What you missed in Big Data: Human insights
The burgeoning analytics ecosystem witnessed another round of consolidation last week after Microsoft Corp. acquired a startup called VoloMetrix Inc. for its productivity tracking software. The deal aims to bolster the workforce monitoring capabilities that it’s been developing internally for Office 365 and intends to launch within the next few weeks. VoloMetrix brings pre-implemented performance dashboards to ...
What you missed in Cloud: Upping the computing ante
As servers continue their increasingly precarious climb along the curve of Moore’s law, so do the major providers keep upping the ante on the cost-efficiency and power of their instances. Last week saw yet another milestone passed on that journey after Microsoft Corp. added a new type of virtual machine to its public cloud that is ...
LinkedIn open-sources internal tool to simplify machine learning projects
Only three days after previewing a slew of upcoming enhancements for Apache Kafka, LinkedIn Inc. is adding another item to its open-source analytics repertoire with the release of a likewise internally-developed tool that promises to simplify machine learning initiatives. And in particular, coordination across the different stages of the project lifecycle. Work on large-scale recommendation systems ...
BlackBerry buys out arch-rival Good Technology for enterprise mobility dominance
The corporate device management space has gotten a little less crowded this morning with the announcement that BlackBerry Ltd. is acquiring one of its biggest rivals, Good Technology Inc., for $425 million in cash. The landmark deal positions the Canadian mobile giant at the very top of the enterprise mobility food chain. That’s thanks to the ...