In the quest for the Holy Grail of project management software — a product that just feels natural and easy to use — Siasto has made it further than most. If this were The Last Crusade, it’d be somewhere inside the temple, crossing the bridge of faith to reach the chalice. Siasto might seem a […]
Posted on April 20th, 2012 by admin
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The folks at RIM can see the writing on the wall — they’ve historically enjoyed plenty of enterprise love, but the recent “bring your own device” trend means headaches not only for RIM, but for the companies that have to manage all of them. In a move to hang on to relevance in the business […]
Posted on April 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Back in December, Salesforce announced the acquisition of social performance platform Rypple, and revealed that it will be entering the human capital management (a.k.a. employee and talent management software) market with the launch of a new product Successforce. Today, the CRM giant is launching the newly integrated product; however, Salesforce is keeping Rypple’s name. The […]
Posted on March 15th, 2012 by admin
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On Tuesday, we covered the launch of Nimble 2.0, a simple, affordable social relationship manager designed to give SMBs the same mileage out of social that enterprise has been able to create with its CRM strategies. For most companies, managing customer relations on social media is difficult, time-consuming, and less-than-precise, and they outsource different parts […]
Posted on February 17th, 2012 by admin
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Oracle this morning announced that it is acquiring cloud-based talent management solutions provider Taleo for $46 per share or roughly $1.9 billion, net of Taleo’s cash and debt. Taleo’s solutions basically help organizations attract, motivate and retain human capital, and will service to boost Oracle’s Public Cloud offering. The transaction is expected to close in […]
Posted on February 9th, 2012 by admin
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Telecom expense management (TEM) solutions company Xigo, which Greg likened to a Billshrink for large companies, has been acquired by one of its partners, IT services and solutions provider Dimension Data for an undisclosed sum. Dimension Data says the acquisition of Xigo, formerly known as Invoice Insight, will enable them to offer enterprise customers an […]
Posted on February 7th, 2012 by admin
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Sumo Logic, a startup focused on enterprise log management and analytics, has raised $15 million in Series B funding round led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with participation from previous investors Greylock Partners and angel investor Shlomo Kramer. The new funding brings the startup’s total venture capital backing to $20.5 million. Today, Sumo Logic emerged from […]
Posted on January 31st, 2012 by admin
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AppDynamics, which specializes in application performance management (APM) solutions for high-maintenance Web apps, has raised $20 million in funding in a Series C round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Previous backers Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participated. With even mission-critical software applications increasingly moving to distributed, cloud-based architectures, AppDynamics’ solutions aim […]
Posted on January 17th, 2012 by admin
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Silicon Valley company Bill.com, which offers Web-based bill payment, invoicing and cash management solutions for businesses, this morning announced that it has raised $15.5 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raised to over $40 million. The financing round was led by new investor Financial Partners Fund (a unit of Citi Capital Advisors), with […]
Posted on December 9th, 2011 by admin
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Virtualization data management software maker Actifio has raised $33.5 million in a Series C financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with previous backers North Bridge Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures participating. Founded in 2010, the startup has secured a total of $57.5 million in venture capital funding to date. Actifio bills itself […]
Posted on December 5th, 2011 by admin
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