In a deal today involving two companies with links to the Boston area, Progress Software, which helps companies build business software, announced it was buying Telerik for $262.5M. Telerik’s portfolio includes a .net toolbox, a mobile development platform and a CMS called Sitefinity, as well as access to a developer community of over 1.4M people. According […]
Posted on October 24th, 2014 by admin
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Semmle, a b2b startup with a business analytics platform that aims to optimize other companies’ IT projects by analyzing the quality of code their developers are writing and also by looking at factors such as how much money the business is spending on particular software development projects, has closed a new funding round — raising […]
Posted on September 16th, 2014 by admin
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Just a few months back, Planday raised $3.75 million from Nordic VC Creandum. And today another European company in the workforce management software space has picked up fresh capital. Quinyx, headquartered in Stockholm, has received backing from Alfvén & Didrikson. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on August 15th, 2014 by admin
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According to Gartner, BI (business intelligence) and analytics will remain a top focus for CIOs through 2017, with companies spending millions on traditional BI software, cloud BI services, and now mobile apps and even social BI. However, as the type and number of BI solutions has grown, so too has the possibility of failure, of […]
Posted on August 14th, 2014 by admin
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Enterprise software has been a critical tool to help companies organize data and automate painfully manual processes. And unfortunately little else. To call enterprise software “dumb” might be slightly unfair, but as “smart” devices begin to proliferate it’s time we all accept that today’s software that we use to run our businesses is painfully ill-equipped… […]
Posted on August 5th, 2014 by admin
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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 […]
Posted on July 12th, 2014 by admin
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Have you ever tried to read a website’s privacy policy only to give up after slogging through paragraphs and paragraphs of dense, lawyerly language? Privacy-focused companies Disconnect and TRUSTe have released a new browser add-on that attempts to translate those policies into easy-to-understand terms. Tweet This Post
Posted on June 28th, 2014 by admin
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As it promised earlier this year, ToDoist has launched a version of its popular cross-platform task-management software for enterprise users. ToDoist For Business includes the support for collaboration and real-time sync it added back in January, as well as a host of other features. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on June 5th, 2014 by admin
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While companies spend trillions of dollars on big data technologies to compile, store, and deliver the volumes of data they’re collecting and the software and services that they have to make sense of that data once it’s collected, there’s a divide that separates the two parts of the process. San Francisco, Calif.-based Trifacta is selling […]
Posted on May 29th, 2014 by admin
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Editor’s note: Jason Green is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital Partners. He was an early investor in Yammer and Success Factors, and he currently sits on the boards of ServiceMax, Replicon, Cotap, Lotame, Xad, Digital Airstrike, and Box (observer). Truly effective enterprise collaboration applications represent one of the most promising opportunities for cloud […]
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