Insight News
December 17, 2015

Key Customer Takeaways from Oracle's Q2 Earnings

New C-Suite
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
December 16, 2015

Salesforce, Box Deepen Partnership: How It's Good for Customers

New C-Suite
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Alan Lepofsky
Insight News
December 10, 2015

Google Adds DLP Capabilities to Gmail to Boost Enterprise Appeal

New C-Suite
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Alan Lepofsky
Steve Wilson
Insight News
December 09, 2015

Chipotle's Woes: What They Say About the Food Supply Chain

Matrix Commerce
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
December 08, 2015

IBM Buys Clearleap for Large-Scale Video Delivery: What It Means

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...
Chris Kanaracus
Alan Lepofsky
Holger Mueller
Insight News
December 07, 2015

DropBox to Drop Email and Photo Sharing Tools: What It Means

New C-Suite
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Alan Lepofsky
Insight News
December 07, 2015

Gigster: The Future of Enterprise App-Dev Outsourcing?

Future of Work
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
December 04, 2015

Microsoft Advances Power BI, But Competitors Remain Close

New C-Suite
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
December 02, 2015

How Google's Cloud Vision API Could Change the Way We Work

New C-Suite
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 30, 2015

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Brings the Fight to Salesforce

Data to Decisions
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 30, 2015

Microsoft Unveils PowerApps, Empowering Citizen Developers

New C-Suite
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 19, 2015

Salesforce's Q3 Earnings: Key Takeaways for Customers

Marketing Transformation
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...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
November 19, 2015

Analysis: Cloudera Hones In On Data Optimization for Hadoop

Data to Decisions
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...
Chris Kanaracus