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Dassault’s modest proposal: Change the way we make everything
The biggest software company you’ve never heard of has set an ambitious goal: It literally wants to transform the way we design and build everything. Dassault Systèmes will probably get a hearing from its customers. The $2.3 billion Paris-based maker of 3D design, 3D digital mock-up and product lifecycle management (PLM) software is little-known outside ...
MariaDB raises $9 million and hires two key executives
MariaDB Corp. said it raised $9 million from investors that include Intel Capital and California Technology Ventures, hired Silicon Valley veteran Michael Howard as CEO and brought the developer of its namesake relational database on board as full-time CTO. Created by the developers of MySQL after Oracle acquired that software in its purchase of Sun ...
Survey finds Fortune 500 CEOs still avoiding social media
Only 39% of Fortune 500 CEOs have any social media presence at all – and that’s the good news. A new study sponsored by Domo and CEO.com has found that top executives at America’s largest firms continue to be slow to adopt the tools that in some cases are being aggressively used by their own ...
Birst adds collaboration, limited user import features to BI platform
Continuing its campaign to democratize business intelligence (BI), Birst Inc. is adding features that enable users to carry on conversations while using its networked BI platform and also giving them limited extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities. The company also ported its mobile app to the Android platform. Birst’s novel B I approach maintains a ...
Bolste challenges Slack with “insanely easy” collaboration
Even though Slack Technologies, Inc.’s namesake collaboration platform was a viral phenomenon in 2015, former business coach Leif Hartwig says Slack still isn’t enough. Having watched clients and airport travelers wrestle with the difficulties of integrating disparate technologies for videoconferencing, document sharing and messaging for years, Hartwig says his company has come up with a ...
Investors shower cloud monitor Datadog with another $94 million
Having raised $53.4 million in three previous funding rounds while enlisting big-brand reference customers like Airbnb Inc., Netflix Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. and Spotify AB, it would seem that Datadog didn’t really need another big slug of money. But it’s taking the cash just the same. The maker of cloud monitoring software just closed a ...
Wikibon Analyst: When it comes to private cloud, definitions matter
It may sound like wordsmithing, but Wikibon analyst Brian Gracely thinks it’s important for CIOs to be specific when they use the term “private cloud.” Gracely headed up a Wikibon team that recently published an analysis of the private cloud market, concluding that “true” private clouds will start to be delivered in 2016 as integrated ...
Zebra claims productivity boost by eliminating scanner wrist flick
Little things add up, or at least that’s the argument Zebra Technologies Corp. is using to tout the productivity benefits of its latest innovation in the area of barcode scanners, those handheld devices that warehouse workers around the world use to zap the codes printed on shelves and stock-keeping units for the purposes of inventory ...
John Sculley talks customer control, innovation at the edges and $150 smart phones
More than a decade the past the typical corporation’s mandatory retirement age, John Sculley appears busier than ever. He’s a board member or cofounder of more than 15 companies, a frequent public speaker and author of a new book, Moonshot!: Game-Changing Strategies to Build Billion-Dollar Businesses. Far from resting on the laurels of his success as a ...
Users tell of the many upsides of data quality and integration
Whether through acquisitions or just modifications to legacy systems made over a period of years, mature companies inevitably run into data integration and quality problems. These issues are becoming particularly pronounced in the age of analytics, when companies need to pull data from sources that may number in the hundreds. When formats and fields are ...