This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
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...
Kronos has given its Workforce Ready HR suite a visual overhaul and added a new tool called Workforce Auditor, which uses big data to spot behavioral anomalies among groups of empl...
Salesforce is hoping to foster its ecosystem with a new, free-of-charge online training program called Trailhead, in a move that could help customers of all sizes cut Salesforce-re...
Cloud software vendors have for some time been diligently building out their global datacenter footprints both for reliability and scale, as well as to meet customers' data privacy...
Google made headlines this week with the news it is open-sourcing TensorFlow, its AI (artificial intelligence) engine, under the Apache 2.0 license, and among the move's many impli...
It's always a wise idea to view software vendor press releases with a degree of skepticism, especially when they tout—as SAP did on Wednesday for its next-generation S/4HANA suite—...
SAP's TechEd event this week in Barcelona placed Fiori, the vendor's strategic user interface paradigm, in the spotlight with the announcement of two new services, Fiori cloud edit...
Microsoft has acquired Israel-based Secure Islands following the purchase of two other Israeli security vendors over the past year or so. Redmond shared the pertinent details in an...
Collaboration software vendor Atlassian has filed initial paperwork for a long-expected IPO, in a move that should fend off speculation of it being acquired by a larger vendor whil...
Ericsson and Cisco have announced a significant strategic partnership the companies say will generate at least $1 billion in revenue for each party by 2018. Here are the key detail...
The Federal Communications Commission, like so many government agencies, is burdened with a long list of legacy IT systems. One that stood out in particular to FCC CIO David Bray w...
Walking into a Dylan’s Candy Bar store, you might think you’ve stepped into a modern version of Willy Wonka’s factory. The retail chain—which was founded by Dylan Lauren, daughter ...
Ashoka, a global nonprofit serving social entrepreneurs, found itself in a familiar dilemma for growing companies: It had outgrown Excel. In Ashoka's case, Excel was used as an HCM...
Luminex develops and builds biological testing equipment for the clinical diagnostic and life science industries. Its field services team includes about 50 engineers whose roles ar...
