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Salesforce is reportedly negotiating to pay up to $600 million for CPQ (configure, price, quote) vendor Steelbrick, in a move that—if it happens—underscores the growing importance ...
Oracle's second-quarter results are in and you guessed it—the company made a lot of money. What's always more interesting to dig into than the raw numbers is what's said by executi...
In what is an unsurprising but still welcome move, the Cloud Foundry Foundation has launched a certification program for vendors using Cloud Foundry in their PaaS (platform as a se...
Box and Salesforce have expanded their long-standing partnership in a deal that underscores how product integration can be different, and better for customers, in the cloud era. He...
Ideas advanced in an AI (artificial intelligence) program newly unveiled this week could have big implications over time for enterprise software. Here are the details from MIT's Te...
Google has plugged a key security feature hole in Gmail with the addition of DLP (data loss prevention) capabilities, in a move that should bolster its appeal among enterprise cust...
Adobe and Accenture have expanded their partnership, in a move that speaks to the industry changes involved in large-scale digital transformation projects. Here are the key details...
Cisco is turning its Spark messaging application into a converged communication platform, highlighting an important ongoing trend in the enterprise collaboration space. Here are th...
Chipotle Mexican Grill is going through a seriously rough public-relations patch of late due to a rash of food-borne illnesses linked to some of the chain's 2,000 stores, in a situ...
The Americas' SAP Users' Group has released its second member survey on SAP's HANA platform, providing a series of detailed insights on how customers are adopting it. (Disclosure: ...
IBM has acquired video content management platform vendor Clearleap in a move that underscores the growing importance of video in not just the consumer world, but enterprises as we...
Dropbox is getting out of the email and photo-sharing game by shuttering Mailbox and Carousel early next year, in a move that could ultimately benefit its enterprise file-sharing c...
After a couple years of fairly quiet existence, application-development startup Gigster made big headlines this week by announcing a $10 million Series A funding round led by Andre...
The kickoff to this year's holiday shopping season has come and gone, and in its wake Adobe, among others, has released online sales figures for Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cybe...
Salesforce has built on last year's release of Lightning Connect with Salesforce Connect, a new tool it says can tap into third-party data sources without the need to write any cod...
Microsoft has unveiled a series of enhancements to its Power BI data-visualization and exploration tool, including an integration with Cortana for voice-based queries; a set of alg...
Google has announced a limited preview for Cloud Vision API, a type of programming tool that could have significant implications for the future of enterprise applications, particul...
Workday is taking its partnership with ADP for global payroll to the next level in a move that should benefit both vendors as well as customers. Here are the key details from the a...
With the Hewlett-Packard corporate split complete, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is ramping up its hybrid cloud strategy with the launch of Synergy, a new hardware-software platform t...
Microsoft has released what it calls the most comprehensive version of Dynamics CRM ever, with key advancements on the fronts of analytics, mobility and customer engagement. Here a...
Microsoft has unveiled PowerApps, a new template-driven application development platform targeted toward business users that leverages the familiarity of Office. Here are the key d...
Black Friday, the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season, will soon arrive and some shoppers will get started even earlier thanks to the likes of Walmart opening on the U....
A report this week in the Register no doubt raised some eyebrows among Oracle customers. More than 1,000 Oracle support workers will reportedly be let go as part of a consolidation...
Cisco is placing a big bet on webconferencing—yes, even though it already has WebEx—with the $700 million purchase of London-based Acano. Here are the key details from Cisco's anno...
Salesforce held its third-quarter earnings announcement on Wednesday, reporting a revenue rise of 24 percent to $1.7 billion, putting the company on pace to generate $6.6 billion t...
Cloudera is continuing to refine its Hadoop-based big data analytics platform with Cloudera Enterprise 5.5, including a beta version of a tool that analyzes and optimizes Hadoop wo...
Microsoft has taken the wraps off the new Dynamics AX, which will be generally available on its Azure cloud platform early next year. That's right—on Azure first, and not immediate...
One of the most venerable names in the web conferencing market is set to undergo a major transition, with Citrix's announcement it will spin off GoToMeeting and other products in i...
Jive and Egnyte have announced a partnership that ties Jive's collaboration suite with Egnyte's enterprise filesharing services, in a move that gives customers a new option while r...
The news cycle has become saturated with stories on “the blockchain," a new distributed database or ledger technology, invented to underpin the Bitcoin digital currency. Gover...
