Sunday December 22, 2024

Apttus adds support for Microsoft Dynamics as it tries to expand its market reach beyond Salesforce

 Since its earliest days Apttus has always been a Salesforce shop. It’s built on the Salesforce platform and worked exclusively with Salesforce CRM, but that changed today when the company announced it would also be supporting Microsoft Dynamics in the future. There seemed to be a shift in the company’s thinking at the end of last […]

Google adds support for Microsoft Office, Facebook at Work, Slack and others to its single sign-on solution

 Google doesn’t just offer its own web-based productivity apps, but it also offers a service for business users who want to use Google as an identity provider for accessing other online services using the widely used SAML standard. Today, Google is adding a few new options to this program, which now includes a number of […]

Facebook adds 36K Telenor employees to Facebook at Work as it gears up for global launch

 Facebook at Work — the enterprise version of Facebook that lets businesses build their own secure social networks — has racked up over 60,000 companies on a waiting list while still in closed beta. And as it gears up for a full global launch and new features like an app platform later this year, Facebook is announcing its newest big […]

IBM Adds Post-Cyber Attack Planning With Resilient Systems Acquisition

 The RSA security conference is being held this week in San Francisco where security pros come together to discuss strategy. IBM made several security announcements this morning ahead of the conference, headlined by the purchase of Resilient Systems. Instead of trying to prevent an attack, Resilient gives customers a plan to deal with a breach after it’s […]

Salesforce Adds COO To Keith Block’s List Of Executive Titles

 Salesforce announced today that vice chairman and president Keith Block was also taking the role of Chief Operating Office at the cloud CRM giant. That gives him three major executive roles and a seat on Salesforce’s board for those keeping score at home. When Salesforce landed Block a couple of years ago, it was a major […]

ZenPayroll Is Now Gusto, Adds Benefits To Take On Zenefits

 Payroll startup ZenPayroll changed its name to Gusto today and is moving beyond payroll, into benefits such as health insurance and workers compensation. Sound familiar? We’ve heard that cloud HR benefits company Zenefits plans to roll out a payroll service similar to the startup formerly known as ZenPayroll. Read More Tweet This Post

Microsoft Launches Third Technical Preview Of Windows Server 2016, Adds Built-In Container Support

 Microsoft today published the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. As promised, this is also the first version of Windows Server to natively support Windows Server Containers — that is, Microsoft’s version of Linux containers that can be managed both through Powershell and Docker’s command-line tools. Read More Tweet This […]

Salesforce Adds E-Commerce To Its Community Cloud

 Customers of Salesforce’s Community Cloud will soon be able to add their own buy buttons. The Community Cloud allows businesses to build sites where customers can interact with the company and with each other. By introducing the ability to make purchases directly from those communities, Mike Stone, the senior vice president of marketing for Salesforce […]

GE Adds Infrastructure Services To Internet Of Things Platform

 GE announced today that it was expanding its Predix Internet of Things platform to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The IaaS market is dominated by Amazon Web Services with many others, including Microsoft, Google and IBM vying for a piece of the action. GE hopes to differentiate itself from these companies by offering infrastructure services specifically tuned […]

Google Adds 8 Carriers To Its Android For Work Partner Ecosystem

 When Google officially launched its Android for Work program earlier this year, it had already signed up a wide range of partners to help bring Android for Work to market. Today, it is expanding this program by adding a new device manufacturer and — for the first time — carriers to its partner ecosystem. Read […]