Surf Airlines Inc., known as Surf Air, is gaining liftoff for a business model attempting success in one of the most capital-intensive, cutthroat enterprises there is: airlines. The California-based company, founded in 2013, uses the recurring revenue from monthly memberships to compete with commercial carriers through a completely different approach. And as the fledgling airline has ...

Is Caterpillar Inc. becoming a platform or software services company? While some of its executives maintain that the mission is still to sell big iron, the company’s visible presence at the Zuora Subscribed event in June highlights a continued push to provide construction and mining customers with new digital tools. “There’s a lot of software ...

As the shopping experience has moved to the mobile platform, retailers around the globe are confronting a new reality: technology has shifted the balance of power. More often than not, consumers have more information than store personnel these days, knowledgeable about everything from competitor pricing to inventory supply. And that’s forcing many retailers to make ...

A cornerstone of Infor Inc.’s business strategy is micro-verticals, a focus on industry-specific software that can provide unique solutions for a baker versus a brewer. When the enterprise software provider bought enterprise resource planning rival Lawson six years ago, it forced one system integrator, Avaap Inc., to make a risky bet that Infor’s strategy would ...

When you own a set of companies that offers customer solutions to diverse industries, such as construction, mining, oil and gas, agriculture, and power, you can count on having plenty of competition. For the Zahid Group, this meant reaching out to Infor Inc. for scalable applications critical to the heavy equipment industry with the goal ...

When the investment arm of Koch Industries Inc. paid $2.5 billion for a major stake in Infor Inc., the move was seen as another “traditional company goes digital” story. The extent of Koch’s interest in Infor became clearer today when it was announced that the business applications provider will implement CloudSuite — a benchmark suite for ...

Infor Inc. followed up its June 2017 acquisition of Birst Inc., a cloud-native business intelligence, analytics and data visualization platform, with the announcement today of Coleman, an artificial intelligence platform for CloudSuite applications. How those two platforms will complement Infor’s strategic direction was the central question as the company kicked off its Inforum 2017 event in New York. “One ...

When Pure Storage Inc. announced a partnership with Catalogic Software Inc. nearly one year ago to jointly produce a copy data management product for enterprise information technology, it was widely seen as an important moment for the two firms. Pure Storage was in a legal dogfight against disk powerhouses like EMC, and Catalogic was beginning to ...

Nutanix Inc. made significant news at its .NEXT gathering last week with the announcement of a partnership with Google to help large enterprises migrate workloads to the cloud. However, as comments from the chief product officer at Nutanix indicate, cloud options are numerous and his company is planning to cover as many bases as possible. “For ...

Although the healthcare industry has often been more cautious than other sectors in embracing new technologies, there are signs that hospitals and other patient care organizations are beginning to adopt the enterprise model when it comes to data management. This might involve mimicking attributes of a public cloud when it makes sense on-prem and implementing server ...