Monday December 23, 2024

Skyhigh Debuts CloudRisk, A Tool To Help Large Companies Track Their Cloud Exposure

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 […]

Billionaire Jewelry King Launches TaskWorld, A Management Tool All About Performance

Billionaire jewelry king Fred Mouawad has a different take on the world of task management. Most providers have some play on keeping a list or offer a schedule of reminders. But Mouawad, after hanging out at Stanford University to get in geek mode, has built something different. It’s called Taskworld and it’s a task-management app that is […]

As Software Eats The World, Agile Tool Provider Hansoft Raises $8.4M To Steal Competitors’ Lunch

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, […]

Backed By Steve Blank & More, Startup Genome Founders Launch Next-Gen Benchmarking Tool For Startups

Three years ago, a team of researchers, entrepreneurs and data geeks set out on an ambitious mission: To put the world’s technology startups under the microscope in an effort to better understand why some succeed and why 90 percent eventually go the way of the dinosaur. Fast forward to today, and The Startup Genome (as […]

Amazon: New analytics tool can scrutinize massive amounts of data

Amazon Web Services this week rolled out a new cloud-based data analytics tool named Kenesis, which can analyze massive amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour. Tweet This Post

YC-Backed Kippt Takes Its Enterprise Tool For Sharing Useful Content Out Of Beta

They’re a talented team of two from Finland that got Y Combinator’s stamp of approval and built a promising product for storing and sharing content from across the web. But consumer-facing browser extensions can prove difficult for growing a large user base, so this startup, Kippt, did a little pivot. After launching more than a […]

Microsoft sharpens Office 365 tool to slice and dice data

Microsoft has added features to Power BI for Office 365, a data analysis tool to complement Excel that the company hasn’t yet released in final form. The preview of Power BI for Office 365 now offers users the ability to mine data using natural language, question-and-answer-type queries. Tweet This Post

Zula’s Mobile-First Teamwork Tool Lets You Spend More Time Outside Of The Inbox

Zula, a startup from Jeff Pulver, a co-founder of VoIP success story Vonage, and serial entrepreneur Jacob Ner-David, is hoping to make your life a little less reliant on your inbox. The app combines elements of enterprise collaboration and communication tools, as well as mobile messaging giants like WhatsApp, for a tool that targets enterprise […]

Zoho Launches Mobile-Ready Survey Tool To Extend Online Business Platform

Zoho has released a new survey tool that allows customers to conduct surveys in customer satisfaction, education, human resources, marketing, marketing research and other areas using custom or pre-built templates. Zoho Survey, available for web and iOS and Android devices, offers different question types, such as multiple choice, ratings and text boxes. After users create surveys using either […]

MindTouch Delivers For SAP And Salesforce By Turning The FAQ Into A Self-Service Sales Tool

MindTouch is using data to provide context to customer support pages so people can get better answers to the questions they have about a product or a service. The FAQ just doesn’t do it anymore. It’s either because the questions don’t apply or the answers don’t address a customer’s issues. MindTouch has won customers such as […]