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Apptio handily beats forecasts in first quarterly earnings report
Apptio Inc. reported its first quarterly earnings results as a public company, and analysts cheered. Total revenues of $40.6 million were up 26 percent from the third quarter of 2015, and quarterly losses narrowed to $4.5 million from $7.4 million. Gross margins strengthened to 67 percent from 61 percent in the third quarter of 2015. ...
‘IFTTT for work’: Tibco debuts personal automation tool
If you’ve ever used the personal automation suite IFTTT (If This Then That), then you have a head start on understanding Tibco Software Inc.’s new take on personal automation. The middleware giant today is introducing what it calls a personal automation software-as-a-service tool called Tibco Simplr that can be used to automate repetitive tasks, build ...
Tableau shares plunge as third-quarter revenues miss forecast
Still struggling to recover from a fourth-quarter 2015 earnings disappointment that sent its shares down more than 50 percent in a single day, Tableau Software Inc. again missed the mark today. The data analytics and visualization software company reported that third quarter revenues rose 21 percent over the same quarter last year to a record $206.1 million. That was ...
OpsDataStore boosts power management, root-cause analytics
OpsDataStore Inc. has updated its statistics-grounded service management suite with improved root-cause analysis and better support for Intel-based servers via integration with the chip maker’s Data Center Manager power monitoring system. OpsDataStore Uses a dynamic object model to automatically establish relationships between the items in the streams of metrics as the data is ingested (above). ...
Customer relationship management startups Emissary, Freshdesk score new funding
Investors are placing fresh bets on customer relationship management (CRM) startups, indicating that plenty of growth potential remains in a 20-year-old market. Emissary Inc. launched yesterday with a $10 million series A funding round for its proposition of connecting salespeople with former executives from companies they’re trying to reach. Founded by former Google Product Manager ...
Trifacta tackles data integration for non-big data environments
Trifacta Inc. today is announcing a version of its namesake data preparation tool designed for non-big data environments. The company, which calls the discipline it enables “data wrangling,” said Wrangler Edge is intended for use by organizations that may not have Hadoop or an enterprise data lake but that still want to do data analysis in ...
Kinetica aims to speed users onto its graphics chip database train
Kinetica Db Inc., which makes a high-speed in-memory database designed for use with hardware graphics processing unit chips, is adding programs to make its product and applications easier to install and operate. The Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs “help customers translate business requirements into best practices for integrating Kinetica into their environment, designing solutions and implementing new use cases ...
Atlassian beats estimates but investors shrug
Atlassian Corp. Plc. exceeded revenue estimates and reported slightly better-than expected earnings for the fiscal first quarter of 2017, but investors bid the stock down a little less than 2 percent in after-hours trading. Revenues of $136.8 million for the first quarter were up 34 percent year-over-year. The operating loss – reported under International Financial Reporting ...
Can your connected devices be hijacked? UK firm has a way to find out
In the wake of last week’s massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the domain name server hosting provider Dynamic Network Services Inc. that brought down some of the internet’s largest websites, I got an email from London-based Bullguard Ltd. informing me of the BullGuard IoT Scanner, a free tool that enables consumers to check whether their ...
VMware calms investor nerves with solid third-quarter results
VMware Inc. today beat analyst expectations for both revenues and earnings per share in its third quarter and raised revenue guidance for the rest of the year as new cloud partnerships boosted sales. The news buoyed investor spirits. VMware’s shares jumped nearly 3 percent in after-hours trading. Third-quarter revenues came in at $1.78 billion, an increase ...