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Oracle lashes its CRM platform more tightly to back-office data
Oracle Corp. today introduced enhancements to its Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience customer relationship management application focused on improving both virtual selling and buying. Citing a recent Oracle-sponsored Beagle Research Group LLC study that found that traditional CRM systems are seen as more a burden than a resource, the company said the new features are focused on ...
Lob adds cloud big-data magic to plain old snail mail
Some 306 billion email messages traverse the internet each day, but the need for physical mailboxes hasn’t gone away, a fact that was underscored by the U.S. election. The U.S. Postal Service still processes nearly 182 million first-class letters on a typical day. Thanks to technology germinated in the cloud, those printed pieces are getting some ...
Apple tops estimates but won’t forecast upcoming quarter, sending shares down
Fueled by strong growth in iPads and Macs during a broad global shift to employees working from home, Apple Inc. posted record fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $64.7 billion and a profit of 73 cents a share, slightly beating Wall Street estimates on both fronts. However, the company’s stock fell more than 5% after hours, probably in response ...
Docker’s developer pivot is hitting the mark, executives say
As Docker Inc. approaches the first anniversary of a business reset following the sale of its enterprise business to Mirantis Inc. last November, executives are declaring its new developer focus a success. Now Docker needs to navigate the path to profitability selling to that notoriously cost-sensitive audience. In a briefing with journalists on Tuesday, Docker ...
Cloud helps Microsoft beat earnings forecast, but stock falls on weaker guidance
Microsoft Corp. again demonstrated how tech providers are thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing quarterly results today that easily beat earnings and sales estimates thanks to strong growth for cloud services and personal computer software. However, the company issued slightly weaker-than-expected guidance for the upcoming quarter. That sent its stock down nearly 2% in after-hours ...
Dremio says its query engine eliminates the need for cloud data warehouses
Self-service analytics company Dremio Corp. today announced new technology that it claims can deliver sub-second query response times on cloud data lakes across thousands of concurrent users and queries. The startup is also rolling out new integrations with Microsoft Corp.’s Power BI and Tableau Software Inc.’s Tableau visualization software that enables the tools to be launched ...
Alluxio expands virtual file system to support billions of files
Alluxio Inc., maker of a virtual distributed file system for data science and analytics workloads, Wednesday released a new version that expands its metadata service and enables unified management across hybrid and multiple clouds. Users can now manage namespaces with billion of files without the need for third-party tools, and a new management console makes ...
Neo4j advances machine learning compatibility for its graph database
Graph database developer Neo4j Inc. is upping its machine learning game today with a new release of Neo4j for Graph Data Science framework that leverages deep learning and graph convolutional neural networks to make data about graph connections more accessible to mainstream data science algorithms. Specifically, release 1.4 adds graph embedding, a technique that calculates the ...
IBM revenue falls but CEO promises imminent return to growth
IBM Corp. just can’t get its revenue momentum going. The computer giant today said its third-quarter revenue fell, dragged down by weaknesses in its systems, services and financing units. Quarterly revenue fell 3.1% from a year ago, to $17.6 billion, when adjusted for divestures and currency fluctuations. That’s the 29th revenue decline in the past ...
Gartner predicts resilience and customer experience will top 2021 technology trends
As Gartner Inc. kicked off its virtual Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Americas today, the information technology analyst firm issued its list of top technology trends, focused this time on business continuity, responsiveness and what Gartner Research Vice President Brian Burke called the “organizational plasticity to form and reform dynamically.” Spurred by the pandemic, Gartner sees organizations becoming ...