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Aria Cloud Subscription Billing Powers Disruptive Technologies
The rising popularity of the cloud has created a demand for new billing options: pay-as-you-go, subscription, rental, you name it. Aria Systems, a pioneer in cloud subscription billing, supports disruptive, emerging technologies by enabling them to interact with their customers more effectively. CEO Tom Dibble joined us for a discussion on how cloud-based subscription billing is changing the way business is done. What is your company's mission? Our mission is to empower innovation and growth in subscription commerce. We do this through relentless innovation to the product and relentless dedication to our customers. How was your company founded? What inspired you to establish ... READ MORE
Battle of the Tech Titans: The Oracle Lawsuit Wars
When people think of business software, Oracle often comes to mind. A leader in both computer hardware and enterprise software systems, Oracle is the third largest software provider by revenue, behind Microsoft and IBM. Prominent solution offerings include extensive product portfolios for enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, and customer relationship management software. Oracle’s place in the business software world is prominent. This prominence, while helping Oracle maintain its position as a leading software provider, also means that Oracle has had its fair share of bad press and legal wrangling with other software and technology titans. Recently, Oracle has managed to ... READ MORE
Business Software Week in Review: Week of July 30 – August 3, 2012
Business Software Week in Review gathers the most interesting news items from the past week in one convenient post. Go into the weekend knowing you didn’t miss anything important this week. Google Snaps Up Wildfire Google is extending its social capabilities with its acquisition of Wildfire Interactive, Inc., a software developer that enables brands to run and monitor campaigns across social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Though no price was disclosed, Bloomberg's report on the Wildfire acquisition indicates that Google will pay $250 million plus performance incentives for the startup that was founded in 2008 and has since ... READ MORE
HP to Acquire Autonomy
Hewlett Packard, a global leading provider of hardware, software, and services, recently announced that it is acquiring Autonomy, an enterprise information management software provider. HP will acquire autonomy for $42.11 per share or about $10.3 billion. This represents a premium of about 64 percent over the closing stock price. HP expects the acquisition to be completed by the end of 2011. The Autonomy acquisition will help bolster HP's efforts in the data mining and analytics space. Leo Apotheker, HP's CEO and president, commented on the way Autonomy will strengthen HP in the enterprise information segment: “Autonomy presents an opportunity to accelerate our strategic ... READ MORE
VMware and HP Unveil Integrated Product
Last week, VMware and HP unveiled integrated storage, desktop, and connectivity solutions. Their goal is to lower costs and make deployment faster and easier. HP provided cloud consulting solutions to enhance VMware technologies in addition to combining some of HP's own software with VMware's. HP and VMware wanted to provide an affordable virtual storage area network (SAN), so they combined the VMware vSphere Essentials Plus with HP's P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA). The integrated product offers storage, backup, recovery and shared storage capabilities. This feature of HP and VMware's new product is ideal for small ... READ MORE
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Interesting article we get a lot of clients moving away from complex crm which are too feature rich to simpler cloud based crm. A crm system should improve workflow processes not hinder.
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Excellent post! Yes, the ROI for marketing initiatives definitely has to be considered. When your Marketing Group wants to spend some money you would expect that expenditure to make some money. The question is how acceptable is the payback or ROI. For example if $1000 is spent should this generate ...