Box made its name being a user-focused company. Ease of use took priority over everything else, and while they’ve achieved a huge user base in this fashion, a big criticism of the company has been on the security side. It was never secure enough for some IT pros. A series of announcements today at the […]
Posted on September 5th, 2014 by admin
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When two closely competing companies make purchases on the same day, it’s probably fair to say that it’s not a coincidence. Such was the case yesterday when Box and Dropbox purchased early stage startups only hours apart. In fact, the cloud startups with similar names have been on mini buying sprees of late, fighting to […]
Posted on June 17th, 2014 by admin
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Nothing is more critical to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business than pricing strategy. Pricing is the moment of truth for a new product … and doubly so when it is a company’s first product. But far more often than not, I’ve observed new startups leaving “money on the table” when it comes to pricing enterprise products. […]
Posted on May 17th, 2014 by admin
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When I spoke to SugarCRM CTO Clint Oram last week, he sang a familiar refrain: The software sales process was changing profoundly from one which had been completely IT-focused to one centered on end users and business units — and this was due in large part to the ease of deployment brought on by the […]
Posted on May 6th, 2014 by admin
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Lots of enterprises are moving to the cloud, but according to cloud monitoring and optimization service Cloudyn, what’s missing for many of them is insights into how their different business units are using various cloud services and how much they are paying for them. The company argues that C-level executives want more detailed insight into […]
Posted on April 9th, 2014 by admin
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If you’ve got a lot of data, then Hadoop either is, or should be on your radar. Once reserved for the Internet empires like Google and Yahoo, the most popular and well-known big data management system is now creeping into the enterprise. There are two big reasons for that: 1) Businesses have a lot more […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2014 by admin
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Skyhigh Networks today debuted CloudRisk, a new tool to help corporations track and manage their potential risk due to use of cloud services. CloudRisk is a dashboard that tracks a firm’s current surface area with cloud services, providing the company with a number — on a scale of one through 10 — regarding their current […]
Posted on February 23rd, 2014 by admin
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Monetate has raised $8 million for its platform that helps companies such as Best Buy increase their sales through the analysis of information from multiple sources such as interactions with the web site, email data and search engine information. The Series C round brings the company’s total funding to $43 million. Existing investors OpenView Venture Partners, Common Fund and Lead […]
Posted on December 7th, 2013 by admin
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Salesforce.com is launching the capability for customers to install a private version of AppExchange, the company’s app marketplace. The new “Private AppExchange,” available Friday, gets implemented as an instance on a company’s Salesforce SaaS environment and is designed to integrate with the now generally available Salesforce Identity platform. Customers may install their own apps and third-party apps on the private AppExchange […]
Posted on November 1st, 2013 by admin
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FireEye made a debut on the public markets that any investor would be pleased to witness. In trading Friday, shares jumped $16 for the security company. In total it raised nearly $304 million, giving it a market cap of $2.3 billion. The company debuted at $20 per share and closed at $36 on the NASDAQ […]
Posted on September 22nd, 2013 by admin
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