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Insight News
September 01, 2016

Salesforce's Q2 Results: The Key Takeaways

Matrix Commerce
Salesforce reported its second-quarter earnings this week and saw its stock plummet after the results missed analysts' expectations. But what's more important to most customers is ...
Chris Kanaracus
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

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 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