One year to the day of the troubled Facebook IPO, the climate for tech IPOs in the public markets is significantly less stormy, especially for companies in the enterprise space. Today, not one but two, Tableau Software and Marketo, are debuting on New York stock exchanges. Business intelligence provider Tableau Software, trading as “DATA”, is […]
Posted on May 18th, 2013 by admin
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Dell has acquired Enstratius, a provider of cloud management software considered one of the most innovative startups in the market by Gartner Research. The acquisition gives Dell another way to provide end-to-end-cloud solutions. Offering enterprise solutions is part of Dell’s larger plans to transition from its dependence on personal computer sales and move deeper into […]
Posted on May 6th, 2013 by admin
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Moxie Software has announced a new freemium service that integrates its collaboration service with its social knowledge engine. Under the new plan, Collaboration Spaces is now free for anyone to use with no limits on users and full features that come with the SaaS offering. The social knowledge engine integration is offered as a premium service that can […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2013 by admin
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Rally Software today became the latest enterprise software specialist to go public, and in its debut today on the NYSE, shares jumped 28 percent to around $18/share. The Boulder Colorado-based company, which specializes in agile project management software, priced its 6 million shares at $14, raising $84 million at a valuation of $315 million. Shares […]
Posted on April 12th, 2013 by admin
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Atlassian is getting more competitive with social collaboration companies like Jive Software with a new offering thst extends its social collaboration service beyond its core users. The new service, called Confluence Blueprints, extends the Confluence platform, the company’s collaborative environment for developers. The blueprints are designed to create and share work within the Confluence environment. Atlassian […]
Posted on March 31st, 2013 by admin
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Riding the consumerisation of IT trend that’s blowing the cobwebs off enterprise software, Belgian startup Showpad – which makes iPad software for sales teams — has raised a $2 million Series A funding round from early stage European VC firm, Hummingbird Ventures. Showpad’s cloud platform hosts sales content uploaded by sales staff and administrators, which can then be accessed […]
Posted on March 29th, 2013 by admin
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Last week, I agreed to a briefing about Tableau 8.0, the company’s latest release and what they say is the biggest product news of the year. Well, I am unimpressed. The new Tableau software is robust, which should be expected from this world-class data visualization company. The release provides access to new data sets such as […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Basho is open-soucing Riak CS, its storage software that integrates with Amazon Web Services. Riak CS will be available under an Apache 2 license. The move is a smart one for Basho, which has built a reputation for Riak, its distributed high performance database. Riak CS runs on top of Riak and applies the same […]
Posted on March 20th, 2013 by admin
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Beyond the edge of SXSW last week, the ESRI team camped out in an old brick firehouse with the interior of an Italian palace. It felt like the home of an eccentric Texas aristocrat, alone in his mansion, dripping with rich fabrics, chandeliers and the odd sense of a New York loft. And it was […]
Posted on March 18th, 2013 by admin
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Oracle is buying Nimbula, the cloud OS startup started by some of the original creators of Amazon Web Services (AWS). But contrary to the reactionary hype, the purchase is for the team and the company’s technology and not as a means to join OpenStack, the open cloud organization that Nimbula participates in as a member. […]
Posted on March 14th, 2013 by admin
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