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Adaptive Insights buffs up integration, display features in performance management suite
Well-funded corporate performance management software vendor Adaptive Insights Inc. has improved data integration and visualization features in the latest release of its cloud-based Adaptive Suite, while giving corporate financial professionals more features to perform “what-if” analysis from within their familiar desktop tools. Adaptive Insights is one of the hottest new vendors in the performance management ...
MarkLogic powers up security, integration features in version 9
MarkLogic Corp. is previewing version 9 of its namesake NoSQL database at its MarkLogic World conference in San Francisco this week, touting new data integration, security and manageability capabilities. MarkLogic targets enterprises with government-grade security and high availability features. Entity services in version 9 attacks a weakness of relational databases by giving developers a semantic ...
SugarCRM has big analytics and mobile plans, but not open source
SugarCRM Inc. is setting the table for what it says will be a major series of announcements at its SugarCon 2016 conference in San Francisco next month with an updated version of its CRM platform that improves information access for customer-facing employees, enhances search functionality, provides better facilities for writing and sharing articles internally and ...
Top sales professionals glomming on to social tools, says LinkedIn
Could this be the end of the cold call? New research by the professional network LinkedIn Corp. shows that social tools are playing a growing role in the sales process, with more than 70 percent of sales professionals using networks like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to cultivate relationships with prospects. Sales professionals also said relationship-building tools ...
Automation slashes chip maker’s cloud migration time by 75 percent
Moving operations to the cloud sounds appealing on so many levels: Cut capital expenditures, reduce deployment times and pay only for what you use. But the devil is in the details. That’s what confronted Exar Corp., a Fremont, CA-based supplier of analog mixed-signal products serving the industrial, high-end consumer and infrastructure markets, when it chose ...
Tableau beats estimates, says pricing will be more aggressive
Investors might not have liked what they saw in Tableau Software Inc.’s first-quarter earnings results, but customers should have reasons to cheer. The business intelligence powerhouse beat quarterly earnings estimates with break-even results, compared to consensus estimates of a 10-cents-per-share loss. Revenues were up 32 percent to nearly $172 million versus a consensus estimate of ...
What funding bust? ON24 notches $25M investment
There’s gold in them thar webcasts. ON24, a company that provides webcast services widely used in B2B marketing and lead generation said that Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Investing group has invested $25 million in the company. You may not have heard of ON24, but it’s likely you have used its platform. Webcasts typically combine slide ...
Startup enlists humans to solve knotty big data problems
When it comes to Big Data, machines can only do so much. At least that’s what startup Spare5 Inc. is betting with the launch of what it calls an “Intelligent Crowdsourcing Platform” that leverages a community of specialists to process Big Data tasks that require a human touch. Crowdsourcing services today run the gamut from ...
Java on the mainframe?
Yep, and BMC will manage it
IBM mainframes are not generally considered a hotbed of activity for the Java programming language, but you might be surprised. BMC Software Inc. recently surveyed 1,200 mainframe users and found that 93 percent said their Java usage on big iron is growing, with 46 percent saying it’s increasing at least 10 percent a year. That’s ...
OpsDataStore enhances real-time monitoring system
OpsDataStore Inc. has updated its namesake IT service management product with a new version that provides real-time troubleshooting, performance and capacity analytics and customized dashboards. The company pitches its product as providing IT operational information in whatever business intelligence tool the customer chooses to use. It replaces a patchwork of more than a dozen monitoring tools ...