Friday January 10, 2025

Actuate software offers free data analysis to enterprise business units

Software provider Actuate is offering a free way for business units to analyze enterprise data and present the results in a format that is easy to understand. The gratis software “is a free server for developers to deploy their reports, visualizations and applications,” said Nobby Akiha, Actuate senior vice president of marketing. [ Discover what's […]

Puppet Labs Raises $40M More To Take Its IT Automation Business Global

 Puppet Labs, whose IT automation software is used by the likes of Google, Twitter, Salesforce and AT&T among 18,000 others, is today announcing another $40 million in venture backing, money that it will be investing in “engineering, product and international expansion,” CEO and founder Luke Kanies tells TechCrunch. The funding, which comes from Puppet Labs’ existing… Read […]

ThoughtSpot Grabs $30M In Series B Funding To Modernize Business Intelligence

 ThoughtSpot, a startup that hopes to modernize the way companies do business intelligence, announced $30 million in Series B funding today led by Khosla Ventures with help from existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding brings its total to $40.7 million to date. As part of the deal, Keith Rabois, who is a partner at […]

Canon Buys Milestone Systems To Build Its Video Surveillance Business

 Some consolidation afoot in the world of enterprise video. Imaging giant Canon is buying Milestone Systems, a startup from Denmark that has developed software for video surveillance systems. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, the companies say. Milestone, founded back in 1998, had raised $25 million from Index Ventures, and according to its latest […]

Dropbox For Business Acquires MobileSpan To Make Bring-Your-Own-Device More Secure

 Dropbox has just acquired MobileSpan, a startup that helps enterprise employees access corporate firewalled content securely. MobileSpan will shut down at the end of 2014, and active development will cease immediately. Dropbox has spent the last year-and-a-half concentrating on making its Dropbox For Business product secure enough for big enterprises. MobileSpan’s knowledge of the… Read More […]

WWDC Keynote Shows Apple Means Business

 Apple’s WWDC keynote had a message for cloud service providers. Apple knows it has the devices inside the enterprise, whether iPhone, iPad and even Macs, and it wants more than just the hardware business. It wants everything. And it’s coming for you. Read More Tweet This Post

Microsoft, Salesforce Partnership Is Proof That Business Makes Strange Bedfellows

 It’s often been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows, but the same could be said for business. If you want proof, look no further than yesterday’s partnership announcement between Salesforce and Microsoft. These are two companies that compete fiercely for the same customers in the CRM space, suddenly making nice. If you look closely at […]

Heroku And Salesforce Aim To Link Business Process and Customer Experience

 Salesforce announced today that it was releasing two new products to help ease the integration between Heroku mobile development tools and Salesforce 1. The new products should make it easier to create applications in Heroku and review data in almost real time as users interact with mobile apps. The first piece is called Salesforce 1 […]

Top 10 Lists for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Top 10 tips for Disaster Recovery in a Small Business – best way to protect your data Disaster Recovery for a Small Business Baseline for best practices defined in Janco’s Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template. As requirements for avoiding downtime become increasingly… Top 10 Disaster Recovery Best Practices As requirements for avoiding downtime become increasingly […]

SAP jacks up Business Warehouse to in-memory speed

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