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WalkMe snaps up Jaco, builder of user experience visualization engine
WalkMe Inc., maker of a platform for understanding and improving user experience, has made its second acquisition, picking up Jaco Analytics Inc. and its user experience visualization technology. WalkMe calls its cloud-based service a “guidance and engagement platform.” The software enables companies to offer contextual guidance, help and prompts to application users or website visitors ...
Intel completes McAfee spinoff to sighs of relief at both companies
Formalizing a deal announced in September, Intel Corp. has completed the spinoff of its McAfee security subsidiary, selling a 51 percent stake to private equity firm TPG for $3.1 billion plus a promise by TPG to invest an additional $1.1 billion in the business. Intel, which paid $7.7 billion for the security firm in 2011, ...
Quality assurance firm has an unusual advantage: autistic testers
“I see things at different levels than most people. I can see a whole spreadsheet of information organized in my mind. Before we moved into our house, I could picture every room and know exactly where I was going to put everything. I can also do that with random bits of data.” – Marcie C, community ...
EMC drives most of Dell’s growth as PC and server revenues flatten
Dell Technologies Inc. said it’s growing market share in all of its key markets as synergies between its new EMC subsidiary and other federated companies kick in. The Round Rock, Texas-based company early today reported $20.1 billion in fiscal fourth-quarter revenues, up 58 percent from a year ago and 24 percent from the previous quarter. ...
Business intelligence hotshot Looker rakes in another big pile of cash
Hot business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. has closed an $81.5 million Series D funding round, adding CapitalG, the late-stage venture capital fund run by Google’s Alphabet parent, to its growing roster of investors. The latest infusion brings Looker’s total funding to $177.5 million, with nearly $130 million of that raised since the first of last year. Other ...
Atadata eases cloud migration pain using scripts instead of middleware
Atadata LLC is targeting the thorny problems of cloud migration with a managed platform that enables companies to shift workloads between on-premises and cloud environments without the use of software agents or emulation. Designed to support large enterprise workloads and a wide variety of source and target environments, Atasphere merges several of the company’s existing ...
ControlUp Raises $10M for operations monitoring platform
ControlUp Technologies Ltd. has raised $10 million in a series B funding round to build a U.S. presence for its analytics platform for information technology operations. ControlUp’s technology is used by organizations running hybrid clouds to measure performance metrics of virtual machine hypervisors and guest operating systems. The software gives administrators a high-level view of their ...
JethroData cranks up speed and automation in business intelligence acceleration engine
JethroData Inc., provider of an index-based SQL platform that speeds up business intelligence operations on Hadoop as well as traditional data warehousing platforms, is today releasing a new version with improved security, automatic aggregation of decision-support cubes, an improved administrator interface and better integration with Apache Hive. The company, which launched its platform last year after ...
LinkedIn adds high-end Sales Navigator edition
LinkedIn Corp. is furthering its drive into the customer relationship management market with a new high-end edition of its Sales Navigator prospecting tool and improved sales follow-up functionality. The top-of-the-line Sales Navigator Enterprise Edition increases the the number of monthly InMails that users can send to 50, adds improved manageability features like single sign-on and includes ...
Updated: With new products and partnerships, IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud
Updated Tuesday with comments from IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty’s keynote: As rivals public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure keep stealing business from traditional data center suppliers, IBM Corp. is announcing on Monday plans to redouble its efforts to offer cloud computing technologies that let customers use them anywhere they ...