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The first generation of social media monitoring and research tools mostly aggregated streams of content that quickly became noise. The new generation is using machine learning and big data analytics to mine actionable insights from what people are saying. Gabe …
Newly independent Quickbase enhances synch and workflow
QuickBase Inc., a former Intuit Inc. subsidiary that was acquired from the consumer financial applications company by a private equity firm last month, is adding new application and data integration features that improve connections with other apps and enhance business tasks and …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …