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Business Software Week in Review: Week of July 9-13, 2012
By N. Rowan | Jul 13 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. Read our business software… Read More
Microsoft Acquires Perceptive Pixel for Future Windows 8-Based PCs
By Amanda Andonian | Jul 09 2012
Microsoft is making a number of announcements today during its Worldwide Partner Conference, but one of the things that really got the Twitterverse buzzing was the news that Microsoft acquires Perceptive Pixel, a "leader in… Read More
The Hidden Costs of the Cloud
By N. Rowan | Jul 09 2012
Pretty much every selling point of the cloud boils down to cost; yet, as cloud adoption surges, more and more companies are experiencing the unforeseen pains of runaway costs. Learn about the hidden costs of… Read More
ClearStory Brings Big Data to the Masses
By James Sullivan | Jul 04 2012
ClearStory Data, a Palo Alto-based Big Data start-up backed by Google Ventures, Andreeseen Horowitz, and Khosla Ventures, is set to help average business users make sense of huge, disparate Big Data elements through intuitive graphical… Read More
Key Players in Enterprise Social
By James Sullivan | Jul 02 2012
We uncover top enterprise social vendors who are developing innovative and widely adopted solutions for enterprise social networking and collaboration. Read More
Top Companies to Watch in IaaS - Part 1: Key Players
By N. Rowan | Jun 28 2012
Infrastructure-as-a-Service is certainly not a new field, but with the growing popularity and complexity of the cloud, the IaaS market is in a constant state of flux. In December 2011, Gartner published a Magic Quadrant,… Read More
Social in the Spotlight
By James Sullivan | Jun 20 2012
Social is hot right now. It seems like everyone from industry analysts to corporate executives is talking about the importance of social to CRM and the broader business software market. Read More
Enterprise Software Companies to Watch - ServiceMesh
By N. Rowan | May 29 2012
ServiceMesh's Agility Platform solution helps IT departments in the areas of cloud governance, policy management, security, and auditing across multiple clouds using only a single management interface. In other words, ServiceMesh offers a simple way… Read More
IBM Chooses Cloud Upstart over Oracle
By Darlene Lin | May 03 2012
IBM, a leader in its own right as a software and hardware provider, recently announced that it would be dropping Siebel in favor of SugarCRM as its CRM system. Read More
A Closer Look at the Consumerization of IT
By Darlene Lin | Apr 26 2012
The consumerization of IT does not refer to a particular technology or software; instead, it refers to the use of consumer technologies and devices, such as iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices within the enterprise.… Read More