Earlier this week, Space-Time Insight raised $14 million to further develop its geospatial and visual analytics software. EnerTech Capital, Novus Energy Partners, and ClearSky Power & Technology Fund, join existing investors, Opus Capital Ventures and Start Up Farms International (SUFI), in this round of financing. STI takes disparate data sets to create models for real-time analysis. […]
Posted on September 21st, 2012 by admin
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Salesforce.com is setting up the next big battle in the market with a new service they are calling Facebook style identity for the enterprise. The new service, which Marc Benioff first discussed on stage at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is being called a single, social, trusted identity in the cloud across all enterprise apps. The […]
Posted on September 20th, 2012 by admin
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Heroku has added Java for a new enterprise focused service so companies and IT organizations can build and run Java applications in the cloud. In a press release, Heroku boasts it will allow companies to deploy mission-critical apps in minutes instead of months. That’s quite an assertion but the platform as a service (PaaS) market […]
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In the inerview process a uniform front is important.. Before you start recruitng you should have answers prepared for questions like the following: Are responsibilities for this job completely defined? How would you describe the someone who is successful in that role? What is it like working at the company? How are responsibilities defined within […]
Posted on September 20th, 2012 by admin
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A theme is emerging in Marc Benioff’s keynote: Man, machines, and social networks are part of the next evolution in technology and compare to the movements of the past 40 years dating back to the mainframe. The talk began with a video that featured a woman who tells her car she wants to go to […]
Posted on September 19th, 2012 by admin
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Oracle has acquired SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based, social talent sourcing apps that allow companies to use social networks such as Facebook to recruit employees. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It is Oracle’s year for buying companies in the human capital management market (HCM). Earlier this year it acquired Taleo for $1.92 billion. Taleo’s solutions help customers attract, motivate, […]
Posted on September 19th, 2012 by admin
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SAP’s Sanjay Poonen said in a meeting of bloggers and analysts today that Windows 8 will rise to the No. 2 spot in the enterprise tablet market in part due to Samsung’s patent lawsuit loss to Apple last month. While it’s not the sole reason that CIOs cite, it certainly is the nail in the […]
Posted on September 18th, 2012 by admin
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SAP is having a blogger and analyst event this week that is an education in how a big company can one day be exciting and another offer a reminder of how different it is from the startups of the world. That was pretty well summed up today when SAP’s Sethu Meenakshisundaram said the client/server is back […]
Posted on September 18th, 2012 by admin
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Firefly is a new browser-sharing service that has striking similarities to GoInstant, the company that Salesforce.com acquired earlier this year for $70 million. Like GoInstant, Firefly has found a way to break through the complications of software-based web conferencing with a service that allows the sharing of web pages without any plug-in needed. I was impressed with […]
Posted on September 17th, 2012 by admin
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During an enterprise-focused panel at TechCrunch Disrupt today, Box co-founder Aaron Levie noted how startups have “an unfair advantage” over the incumbents in the enterprise world today. In his view, the enterprise market isn’t just getting “sexy” today, but it’s actually now a very attractive market for startups. The traditional enterprise vendors, after all, are […]
Posted on September 17th, 2012 by admin
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