A home improvement retail chain can use an app running on an iPad to help design a customer's home, check inventory for the products, give a cost estimate to the customer, and take orders. Yet another app called iPeople allows human ...
Tags: iPad, SAP, Apple, Enterprise Mobility
Barclays bank has adopted Salesforce’s enterprise social networking tool, Chatter, to help sales teams keep closer contact with their customers. At the roll-out, during this week’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, ...
Tags: Barclays bank, Salesforce, social networking tool, Chatter
Microsoft will shine the spotlight this week on SharePoint's new 2013 version at a conference devoted to the popular collaboration server, but recently acquired Yammer may grab substantial attention. While Microsoft has detailed ...
Tags: Microsoft, spotlight, SharePoint, 2013 version, collaboration server
IDG News Service - SAP on Wednesday made a series of announcements meant to define itself as a major player in the enterprise social software market with a superior approach to rivals such as Salesforce.com. A new platform called SAP Jam, ...
Tags: SAP, social software market, uperior approach, Salesforce
The global software market grew 4.7% in the first half of this year to $167 billion, with CRM (customer relationship management), virtualization and collaboration coming in as the fastest-growing segments, according to figures released ...
Tags: software market, CRM, virtualization, collaboration
Securing Good Technology's mobile device management (MDM) offerings while exploring future tech developments is CTO Nicko van Someren's top priorities. Speaking to CIO Australia during the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on the Gold Coast, ...
Tags: Good Technology, MDM, CTO, Nicko van Someren
IDG News Service - SAP on Monday is set to unveil a line of cloud-based EPM (enterprise performance management) applications that run on top of its HANA in-memory database platform. EPM software is a subset of the broader BI (business ...
Tags: SAP, cloud based EPM, in memory database, EPM software
ccwith the unveiling of a new service called Work.com next month during the Dreamforce event in San Francisco. The news first emerged in a Bloomberg profile of the company published on Thursday. A Salesforce.com spokeswoman confirmed the ...
Tags: Salesforce, human resources software, new service, Work.com
Salesforce.com suffered a significant service outage on Tuesday, less than two weeks after another serious set of system problems. The cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) vendor's systems are divided into many instances ...
Tags: Salesforce, service outage, two weeks, system problems
Oracle touted what it called strong early adoption of its next-generation Fusion Applications on Monday, but also discussed how it will continue to support and add new features to the company's other business software lines, such as ...
Tags: Oracle, Fusion Applications, new features, business software lines
IDG News Service - Oracle has agreed to acquire Eloqua for about $871 million in a bid to build out a set of marketing automation software. Eloqua's board has approved the deal and it is expected to close in the first half of next year, ...
Tags: Oracle, automation software, CRM software, marketing software
Slough-based logistics company Crossflight has implemented an EMC VNX mid-range storage array to support its virtual server environment and has reaped savings of 50% on power and cooling costs. The company chose EMC over HP, IBM and ...
Tags: Logistics Firm, Slough-based, Crossflight, EMC VNX
During the integration of three separate groups of Swiss telecoms provider SwissCom, the business intelligence (BI) function was the only place to get a view of the whole organisation. Following its decision in 2008 to converge groups ...
Tags: SwissCom, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning
When it comes to things that keep CIOs up at night, mobility, particularly bring your own device (BYOD), is at the top of the list or near it. Mobile device management (MDM) products and services are often the reflexive response to the need ...
Tags: CIOs, BYOD, MDM, secure data
Changes to Twitter's upcoming API release are aimed at restricting consumer-focused client applications in favor of business-oriented ones, according to the company's blog on Thursday. Version 1.1 of Twitter's API (application programming ...
Tags: Twitter, API, client applications, rules