Insight News
August 31, 2016

SAP Launches BW/4HANA, a Next-Generation Data Warehouse

Data to Decisions
SAP has been dealing with questions over the future of its Business Warehouse product for years, and now has provided an answer with SAP BW/4HANA, a new data warehousing product th...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Holger Mueller
Insight News
August 29, 2016

Eyeing Oracle OpenWorld 2016: What's In Store

Data to Decisions
The world's largest enterprise technology event, Oracle OpenWorld, is just a few weeks away. Oracle is holding off on making its biggest announcements until the event, but a look t...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
August 29, 2016

VMWare Wants to Be Your Multi-Cloud Manager

Tech Optimization
VMware made a slew of cloud-related announcements at the start of its VMWorld conference this week, but perhaps the most notable one concerned a set of services that are still unde...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
August 25, 2016

Rimini Street's Latest Gambit: Even Faster SLAs

Tech Optimization
Rimini Street has made a value case for its third-party software support services in multiple ways, including the 50 percent savings they say SAP and Oracle customers will enjoy co...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
August 25, 2016

Workday's Q2 Results: The Key Takeaways

Data to Decisions
Workday announced its second-quarter earnings this week and while the numbers slipped Wall Street's expectations a bit, a conference call with executives revealed a number of inter...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
August 23, 2016

Tableau Shakes Up Its Leadership, But Questions Remain

Data to Decisions
Something was bound to change atop industry darling and data-visualization vendor Tableau following a stark earnings report and plummeting stock price this year. On Monday that som...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
August 18, 2016

The Autonomous Car Vision Will Require Much More than Cars

Future of Work
A sudden flurry of news in the autonomous car market drew major headlines this week, with one of the most prominent being Ford Motor Company's pledge to have a fully autonomous veh...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
August 16, 2016

Salesforce Picks Up BeyondCore for Automated Advanced Analytics

Data to Decisions
Salesforce has added yet another arrow to its quiver of analytics technologies with the acquisition of BeyondCore, a startup focused on automated advanced analytics for business us...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
August 15, 2016

Honeywell Reportedly to Buy JDA for $3 Billion: Here's Why

Matrix Commerce
Honeywell is reportedly close to buying supply-chain software vendor JDA for roughly $3 billion, in a move that would continue the industrial giant's push into software systems, as...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
August 15, 2016

The Facebook-AdBlock Plus Flap Is a Wakeup Call for CMOs

Marketing Transformation
Facebook and AdBlock Plus's ongoing battle over the appearance of advertising on the social network has no real end in sight, but in the meantime the flap presents an important les...
Chris Kanaracus
Cindy Zhou
Insight News
August 11, 2016

Are 'Wearable Clouds' for Personal Mobile Computing In Our Future?

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
We've got smartphones, smart watches, tablets all connected to the cloud. How about a cloud-connected jacket that could create a simpler, better mobile computing experience? That's...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
August 10, 2016

Google Preps for B2B Marketplace Growth with Orbitera Acquisition

New C-Suite
Google has made a key move to give its cloud platform more appeal to ISVs, MSPs and consulting companies with the purchase of Orbitera, which makes a platform for buying and sellin...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
August 02, 2016

Oracle Buys NetSuite: A Watershed Moment for Cloud ERP?

Matrix Commerce
Oracle's $9.3 billion deal to buy NetSuite made headlines last week, with many observers seeing it as part of Oracle's desire to grow top-line cloud revenue as quickly as possible,...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
July 18, 2016

Why Softbank Bought ARM

Data to Decisions
Japanese conglomerate Softbank has plunked down $32.4 billion for ARM in a deal that takes advantage of a weakened pound while giving it control over the world's leading developer ...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
July 15, 2016

Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin: Does It Always Make Sense?

Tech Optimization
While most applications of blockchain to date have focused on financial services, IBM is pushing the technology as ideal for supply chain monitoring, particularly to track items wi...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Steve Wilson
Insight News
July 15, 2016

MIT, Swiss Researchers Take a Crack At Making a Better Tor

Tech Optimization
For years, Tor has been the network of choice for Internet users who want to remain anonymous while online. But in recent times, Tor's repuation has taken a hit after reports of se...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
July 13, 2016

Microsoft Makes Significant Strategy Shift for Azure Stack

Tech Optimization
Microsoft's Azure Stack, which in essence allows enterprises to run a version of the Azure public cloud in their own on-premises data centers, has been delayed until mid-2017. When...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
July 13, 2016

AT&T Courting Developers, Enterprises with $99 IoT Starter Kit

Matrix Commerce
ATT wants to be a go-to provider for developers and enterprises that are creating IoT (Internet of Things) projects, and is hoping a new $99 dollar IoT Starter Kit is just the thin...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
July 13, 2016

Facebook Will Use Office 365 Internally: What It Means

Future of Work
One of the more surprising bits of news out of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference this week was the announcement that Facebook will roll out Office 365 to its 13,000 employee...
Chris Kanaracus
Alan Lepofsky
Insight News
July 12, 2016

Salesforce Closes Demandware Acquisition: Now What?

Marketing Transformation
Salesforce has completed its $2.8 billion acquisition of e-commerce platform vendor Demandware, and now has the job of adding yet another cloud to its ever-broadening portfolio. Wh...
Chris Kanaracus
Cindy Zhou