Friday January 3, 2025

Is Enterprise Hyper Growth The New Normal?

 The enterprise cloud has entered a new era of hyper growth thanks to a combination of dramatically expanded global markets, access to unprecedented later-stage private growth capital and the ability to scale sales organizations with remote talent. Read More Tweet This Post

Capriza Update Helps Surface Important Information

 By now, we all probably know the cloud and mobile have simplified many of the applications that have been used inside of companies for years. Yet as revolutionary as the cloud and mobile have been in the enterprise, they didn’t solve the problem of the sheer amount of functionality, even a cloud app like Salesforce.com offers users. As […]

Android Can Dominate The Enterprise Mobility Game

 The convenience and versatility offered by mobile devices and the ubiquity of connectivity has caused a shift in the way we live and work. Gone are the solitary cubicles and stodgy desktops of yore, replaced by the mobile workforce user. Companies are adopting strategies like bring-your-own-device and deploying better governance policies to harness the increasing […]

Social CRM Provider Capillary Technologies Raises $45M, Acquires MartJack

 Capillary Technologies, the Singapore-based social CRM company, has raised a $45 million Series C to fuel its evolution into an omnichannel retail platform. The round was led by Warburg Pincus with participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners and brings Capillary’s total funding so far to $79.1 million. Read More Tweet This […]

BlackBerry Goes Shopping Again, Buys Good Technology

 BlackBerry pulled a surprise move this morning when it announced that it’s purchasing mobile device management vendor Good Technology for $425 million in cash. It signals that BlackBerry, which has lost most of its worldwide handset marketshare, is shifting its focus by expanding its mobile enterprise security platform. In a way, this shift makes sense, as BlackBerry […]

Databox Raises $3.3M Seed Round To Help Marketers Understand Key Metrics

 Businesses of all sizes now have access to reams of data about their performance, but it can be difficult to read the story behind the numbers. Boston-based startup Databox’s goal is to make data relatable. Its mobile app draws in data from different analytic platforms, analyzes it, and then presents the results in customized reports. […]

Microsoft Acquires Organizational Analytics Service VoloMetrix

 Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company’s corporate communications systems. Organization analytics is something Microsoft itself has been looking at, too, and its Delve organizational analytics service is currently in preview and scheduled for… Read More Tweet […]

Microsoft Acquires Organizational Analytics Service VoloMetrix

 Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company’s corporate communications systems. Organization analytics is something Microsoft itself has been looking at, too, and its Delve organizational analytics service is currently in preview and scheduled for… Read More Tweet […]

Google Docs Gets Voice Typing, Templates, Smart Sheets And More

 “Get ’em while they’re young” is a battle cry for every company. The younger your users are, the more you can evolve with them over time and keep them locked in to using your products. When I was in school (old person voice), Apple had a huge presence by doing educational partnerships which was ridiculously […]

Setting the standard for IT Infrastructure

Setting the standard for IT Infrastructure Information infrastructure and governance is not on most our minds every day. Many CIO thing the enterprise operations staff will figure it out. Or maybe that three-ring binder of rules and policies will cover it. Neither is true. Information infrastructure and governance is an all-in proposition. It requires diligence […]