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Reltio Inc., a platform-as-a-service company that provides master data management services for disparate data sources, has announced the newest iteration of its cloud data management platform. The new version features integration with SnapLogic Inc.’s application program interface manager and improved integration with …
Trillium folds offline information into data-as-a-service offering
Trillium Software, a Syncsort Inc. subsidiary that specializes in data quality, today announced the availability of Trillium Precise, a new data-as-a-service offering that enables organizations to get a single view of validated, verified customer and prospect contact information, including offline data. Trillium …
Salesforce.com beats earnings forecasts and raises guidance, but investors sniff
Salesforce.com Inc. beat revenue forecasts, matched earnings-per-share estimates and raised its full-year 2018 revenue guidance, but all that wasn’t enough to please picky investors. The provider of customer relationship manager services saw shares decline about 1.5 percent in after-hours trading. The issue appeared …
Chip cards are driving more fraud online, study finds
Retailers suffered a 79 percent greater risk of fraud in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared with the same quarter a year ago. Merchants in the U.S. — and in the apparel industry in particular — bear the brunt of the growth, according …
Alfresco pitches integrated content/workflow manager at digital transformation
Hitching its wagon to the current craze for “digital transformation,” Alfresco Software Inc. is combining its open-source enterprise content management and business process management services into an integrated package topped by an application development platform. The Alfresco Digital Business Platform is used …
Study finds big rewards in IoT adoption, but troubling security worries
A new study of 3,100 information technology and business decision makers across 20 countries finds strong adoption plans for smart devices – or the so-called Internet of Things — but also serious concerns about security and confusion about how to use the …
Q&A: Application containers finally take off as barriers crumble
Enterprise use of containers — those simple, portable software wrappers for applications — is set to explode, with up to 80 percent of organizations expected to be in production by the end of this year. Brian Gracely (pictured) follows this phenomenon closely …
Splunk issues weaker first-quarter outlook, pushing shares down
Splunk Inc. topped analyst expectations in both revenues and earnings per share in its fiscal fourth quarter financial results, but the stock dove 7 percent after hours on a weaker-than-expected first-quarter forecast. The developer of log analytics tools for operational intelligence said total …
This chief data officer is breaking down silos, one at a time
Ursula Cottone has no formal background in technology. Over the course of a nearly 20-year banking career, she has worked in just about every area of the business, including including branch management, lending, commercial banking, investments and large-scale technical projects. Just not …
Adobe brings cloud-based digital signatures to your smartphone
Adobe Systems Inc. today unveiled its first cloud-based digital signature capability, opening up a potentially huge market of billions of smartphones that currently can’t capture digital signatures. The company also added features to its mobile applications that makes it possible for documents …