With more than 3,700 employees, more than 10,000 customers and $600 million in annual revenue, IFS AB probably should be more widely known than it is. The Swedish company’s enterprise resource planning products are used around the world by manufacturing, oil and gas drilling, aerospace, defense and construction clients. “This is the largest enterprise resource ...

The tech locomotive, which has been steaming along for quite a while, is showing early signs that it’s about to tap the brakes. That’s one conclusion from an early look at the “2H19 Pulse Check Survey” compiled by Enterprise Technology Research, which captures spending intentions and draws from 4,500 practitioners surveyed by the organization on ...

Conversational artificial intelligence is coming. The only question is how soon users will get to experience a natural, pleasant and machine-driven discussion. Boomi, a Dell Technologies Inc. company, took a big step toward answering that question last week with the announcement that it would add conversational AI to its portfolio as a personalized way to communicate ...

The open-source movement has a history that captures both its community spirit and renegade impact. Sometimes, that history even involves a yapping animal. In Linux, the “biff” command notifies users when mail arrives and identifies the deliverer. Was “biff” a cleverly conceived acronym for a remarkably sophisticated programming language? No. It was named after a ...

Oracle NetSuite’s partnership with Boomi Inc. goes all the way back to 2008, before Boomi was ultimately acquired by Dell EMC. The alliance began at a time when Boomi was making a big bet on single instance, multi-tenant architecture, even though the business world’s significant migration to the cloud was only a gleam in a ...

As the field of artificial intelligence becomes more developed, we will move from learning tech to having tech learn about us. That’s one of the trends behind today’s announcement that Boomi, a Dell Technologies Inc. company and Accenture PLC will partner to deliver conversational AI solutions for a joint customer base. “We call that trend radically human systems,” said Laetitia ...

When it comes to people, process and technology, the integration platform-as-a-service vendor Boomi, a Dell Technologies Inc. company has focused strongly on the second and third elements of what has become known as the “golden triangle” of business intelligence. Yet it’s the people side of the equation that still carries the most weight. “We are customer first,” ...

Boomi, a Dell Technologies Inc. company, continued to expand its footprint in the integration platform-as-a-service space today with the unveiling of conversational artificial-intelligence solutions and a new brand identity — called “Boomiverse” — for its user community. For Boomi, it’s all about achieving better business outcomes for customers, and the firm’s focus could result in propelling it ...

Recently released spending intentions survey data from Enterprise Technology Research shows that the hyperconverged infrastructure market has become a competitive battle between VMware Inc. and Nutanix Inc., with other players lagging far behind. “It confirmed the general market share numbers that we hear out there,” said Stu Miniman, co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio ...

Delivering new capabilities for enabling teams to manage, automate and report on work at scale is core to the mission of Smartsheet Inc. It’s about catering to specific enterprise customer groups, whose feedback guided many of the announcements the company made during its annual ENGAGE gathering today. “We see three distinct user groups,” said Gene Farrell ...