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Colonial Pipeline Lessons: Ransomware (and Security) Steps Everyone Should Take
From the SolarWinds hack to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware...
Networking Companies from the Dot-Com Boom that Disappeared
A recent conversation got me thinking about the mid-to-late...
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Salesforce.com Unveils Social Enterprise
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) today unveiled its vision for "social enterprises," and recently acquired Radian6 is at the heart of that vision.
Radian6 has been dubbed Salesforce's "marketing cloud," and at Cloudforce 2011 in Washington, D.C....
Amazon Puts Oracle’s Database in the Cloud
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has unveiled a new cloud service based on Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) database technology.
The Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle Database manages common database administration tasks, including provisioning,...
SAP Launches New Software at Sapphire
Making applications work for real-time, mobile workforces was a big theme of SAP's product announcements this week.
SAP's HANA in-memory analytics platform figured prominently in a number of announcements, such as the new SAP...
Oracle Mobilizes Business Intelligence
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) this week announced a number of new features for its business intelligence software, including a new mobile business intelligence (BI) application for Apple's iPad and iPhone.
The enterprise software giant is seeing...
Infor Acquires Lawson in ERP Merger
Infor and Lawson Software (NASDAQ: LWSN)officially announced their intention to merge today.
The deal will create a new titan in the ERP marketplace. The combined Infor and Lawson Software business will be the third largest...
Microsoft Takes ERP to the Cloud
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has announced plans to offer ERP in the cloud. The move to the cloud is part of an update of the Dynamics ERP and CRM product lines.
The software giant said the...
Salesforce.com Pays $326 Million for Radian6
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), is buying its way into social CRM with the acquisition of Radian6.
Radian6's products include a monitoring platform that helps companies track and analyze their social media efforts, and an engagement platform...
Software Redux: 2010’s Top BI, Analytics Stories
Business intelligence and analytics are becoming a key part of all enterprise applications -- witness Oracle's (NASDAQ: ORCL) ambitious plans to add BI to all its applications and IBM's (NYSE: IBM) massive investment in...
