Inside Sales has raised $4 million from Hummer Winblad in a Series A Round that the company will use to grow its big data analytics sales force automation (SFO) technology. Joining in the round were Josh James, co-founder and former CEO of Omniture. Mark Gorenberg, managing director, Hummer Winblad, said before the funding, the company […]
Posted on August 11th, 2012 by admin
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Off-shore outsourcing is no longer the in thing to do. More companies are now using the location of the help and service desks as a criteria in the selection process for IT services and equipment. HP, for example has its help desk in the Philippines where non-native English speakers provide level 1 support. They have […]
Posted on August 10th, 2012 by admin
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Vital Insights, an enterprise startup focused on providing a cloud-based customer experience management solution to the automotive industry, has announced a $20 million growth round from a single investor, private equity firm Bregal Sagemount. This is a first round of funding for the company, which has actually been cash-flow positive since 2008, seeing revenue growth […]
Posted on August 10th, 2012 by admin
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Bob Evans has a colorful past. He works at Oracle these days as what I would call a king’s blogger except that he isn’t doing very well even with the apparent influence of the king himself. Bob used to write for SAP where he penned his own gems about Oracle. The watchmen at Oracle thought […]
Posted on August 10th, 2012 by admin
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I come across these companies that you might not think are super fascinating. But it is often through these technical providers that you get a sense for the bigger market, how business models are changing and the new role of data as an indicator of a cloud’s overall health. A case in point is SevOne. […]
Posted on August 9th, 2012 by admin
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The $25 million funding and sales deal announced late yesterday between mobile payments startup Square and coffee giant Starbucks is big, but it is only the tip of the iceberg for what the implications will be for Square and for mobile payments in general. The deal formally covers 7,000 U.S. Starbucks stores, where Starbucks says […]
Posted on August 9th, 2012 by admin
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Influitive has raised $3.75 Million from 11 investors for the company’s customer advocate platform that helps companies generate qualified leads and shorten buying processes. Founder Mark Organ said the unusual seed round is illustrative of how the venture capital community is getting more engaged in smaller deals. “It’s a huge seed round,” Organ said in […]
Posted on August 8th, 2012 by admin
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PLUMgrid has raised $10.7 million in Series A funding from Hummer Winblad and US Venture Partners to build an operating system that serves the network as much as the modern x86 processor is the foundation for the compute power we use every day to run our applications. The network is becoming a sort of holy […]
Posted on August 8th, 2012 by admin
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Teambox is a collaboration platform that offers its own tools and integrations with third-party apps. Today it is offering the capability to integrate with Box, Dropbox and Google Docs. You hear this debate a lot about what services people prefer inside the enterprise world. Consumer services are competing with more enterprise focused apps. Dropbox is […]
Posted on August 7th, 2012 by admin
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Netflix has open sourced ”Chaos Monkey,” its tool designed to purposely cause failure in order to increase the resiliency of an application in Amazon Web Services (AWS.) It’s a timely move as AWS has had its fair share of outages. With tools like Chaos Monkey, companies can be better prepared when a cloud infrastructure has a […]
Posted on August 6th, 2012 by admin
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