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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After years of working with India’s over $100 billion IT services industry for maintaining their software systems, application development and back office work, CIOs of Fortune 500 companies are now looking to tap into the country’s software product ecosystem. And this time, it’s not just about setting up a corporate accelerator like Target did and Coca […]
Posted on April 10th, 2014 by admin
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It’s been an active week in the world of education software, with this weekend bringing news of the second big-ticket acquisition of a veteran EdTech company in as many days. Last week, Renaissance Learning, the 29-year-old, Google Capital-backed analytics and assessment giant, was acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for a hefty $1.1 […]
Posted on March 24th, 2014 by admin
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Invenias, a U.K.-headquarted company that sells cloud software for the executive search and recruitment sector and has an interface that works within Microsoft Outlook, has topped up its funding with a $2 million expansion round from a prior investor. Last July Invenias closed a $1.5 million Series A round, from then-new investor MMC Ventures, plus a […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2014 by admin
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Big data provides insight into items with many moving parts, and few objects have more moving parts than the applications used in any given enterprise. Tweet This Post
Posted on March 20th, 2014 by admin
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Workable, a startup founded in Athens, Greece, that has developed a cloud-based recruitment platform for SMEs, has today confirmed a new investment of $1.5 million led by Greylock IL, the Israel/UK-based affiliate of Greylock Partners, an early investor in LinkedIn which now counts LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as a partner. Previously, Workable had raised some […]
Posted on March 7th, 2014 by admin
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The rise in malware and online security threats continues to give a big boost to companies that are looking for ways to make the connected world a bit safer. Avast, one of the bigger PC and mobile security software firms that competes against the likes of Microsoft, Symantec and McAfee (Intel) for consumer and enterprise […]
Posted on February 6th, 2014 by admin
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Launched all the way back in 2005, Sweden-headquartered Hansoft provides tools to help teams collaborate and manage the development of products and services using “Agile software development” — the umbrella term for a group of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development. The goal with Agile is to enable code to be developed, […]
Posted on January 28th, 2014 by admin
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A bumper sticker philosopher once said, “The best things in life aren’t things.” We can’t be sure the deep thinker had cloud computing in mind, but the same thought occurred to us as we drew up
Posted on January 19th, 2014 by admin
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Cameleon Software, a publicly traded company on the Paris Bourse that automates price quotes, has been acquired for $33 million in an all-cash transaction by PROS, a holding company that specializes in big data software companies. The deal has the approval of Cameleon’s largest shareholders and now faces the process of regulatory approval. Cameleon is in the increasingly competitive configure per quote […]
Posted on October 24th, 2013 by admin
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