For developers, embedding business intelligence (BI) analytics and interactive visualizations in an application can be a frustrating experience. You can sacrifice flexibility and more powerful capabilities in favor of simplicity and use iFrames or charting libraries. Or you can use representational state transfer (REST) APIs that grant you lots of control but are code-intensive to […]
Posted on June 14th, 2014 by admin
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IBM has been confident its machine-learning project, Watson, can do much more than just win at “Jeopardy.” To show off Watson’s Tweet This Post
Posted on June 4th, 2014 by admin
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While Apple has a reputation for building beautiful hardware and powerful software, recent forays into the cloud, including MobileMe, iCloud, and Siri, have been found wanting by many. At today’s WWDC event, Apple demonstrated that it’s making significant headway on the cloud front with the announcement of iCloud Drive, advanced photo storage and syncing, and […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2014 by admin
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Some consolidation afoot in world of cloud-based enterprise services. Intuit has made another acquisition to help position itself as the go-to place for small and medium businesses to run their offices in the cloud: it has bought Lettuce, a platform for companies to manage both orders and inventory online. Lettuce is not disclosing the terms of the […]
Posted on May 10th, 2014 by admin
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Task management tool Producteev just launched a new iPad app and a native Outlook plugin. Now part of Jive, the company also launched a new pro plan. For $99 per month, you get the Outlook plugin, custom branding and premium support for up to 100 employees. “There is a big market opportunity with people who […]
Posted on March 29th, 2014 by admin
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Fleep is adding Android, Mac and Windows to the list of supported platforms for its team-messaging app. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on March 23rd, 2014 by admin
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Big Blue has announced a new contest to get mobile developers — and most everyone else who can use an API — serious about Watson, its cognitive computing platform. Tweet This Post
Posted on February 27th, 2014 by admin
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: In an effort to jumpstart the U.S. economy amidst the runaway blight of the “Great Recession” and financial crisis beginning in 2008, Congress scrambled to enact and then distribute its unprecedented and controversial $787 billion economic stimulus package. Among other things, the Stimulus […]
Posted on February 15th, 2014 by admin
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Google and VMware today announced that they are working together to make it easier for Chromebook users in the enterprise to access Windows apps and the Windows desktop on their machines. Using VMware’s Horizon desktop as a service (DaaS), which uses VMware‘s HTML5 Blast protocol, it will now be easier for Chromebook users to connect to […]
Posted on February 12th, 2014 by admin
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The shift to scale out architectures and an app-centric culture has turned out well for Docker and its lightweight open-source “container” technology designed for developers to quickly move code to the cloud. That’s evident in today’s news that the company has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Greylock Partners, with minority […]
Posted on January 22nd, 2014 by admin
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