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Google supercharges its mobile app for cloud admins
It’s not only line-of-business users who are taking more and more of their work outside the office. As organizations grow ever-dependent on external resources, so do cloud administrators find that their skills are also increasingly needed when they’re away from their stations, a demand Google Inc. hopes to tackle with the latest update to the ...
Q2 earnings show Box continues hemorrhaging red ink amid aggressive growth drive
Sacrificing near-term profits for long-term growth remains the strategy at Box Inc., which doubled down on marketing in the second quarter to produce an impressive 43 percent yearly revenue increase that briefly elevated its stock price after the earnings call yesterday afternoon. That didn’t last long, however, with its shares down over six percentage points as ...
CartoDB raises $23 million for its location-driven data visualization platform
Context is everything, in data visualization as in life. That’s the premise that helped CartoDB Inc. raise $23 million in funding from four of Silicon Valley’s most reputable venture capital firms this morning to step up the development of its namesake data visualization platform amid rapidly growing demand. Like better-known rivals such as Tableau Software ...
Okta infuses behavioral analytics into its mobile authentication service
Smartphones and tablets have helped enterprise workers become a lot more productive when away from the office, but the sheer number of end-points used to access the corporate network at any given time makes it difficult for administrators to track who’s trying to access what effectively. That’s the challenge Okta Inc. hopes to alleviate with its ...
Demandbase picks up data hoarding startup WhoToo to finetune B2B marketing
In a time when data has never been more important to corporate marketing efforts, Demandbase Inc.’s latest acquisition shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise. The business-to-business targeting powerhouse is paying an undisclosed amount to pick up a startup called WhoToo Inc. that aggregates metrics about online audiences for its customers to consume centrally. The information ...
FiscalNote takes its policy prediction platform global with first acquisition
When an organization grows past a certain point, the demands of running a competitive enterprise are joined by a whole new set of challenges at the legislative level, where large companies are highly susceptible to certain changes due to sheer amount of business they have at stake. It’s those companies that FiscalNote Inc. hopes to ...
Cloudera backs Spark as successor to MapReduce in Hadoop
Hadoop is entering a new chapter in its evolution with the launch of an ambitious community effort from Cloudera Inc. that aims to replace MapReduce as its default data processing engine. The proposed successor is predictably Apache Spark, the speedy in-memory alternative that has been gaining steam among adopters in the last few years. The Hadoop distributor ...
InsideSales.com opens up its predictive analytics engine to enterprises
InsideSales.com Inc. is turning its cloud-based lead processing service into a platform with the introduction of a new application programming interface that allows customers to tap the predictive capabilities of the underlying analytics engine in their own software. It’s aimed as much at fellow vendors as everyday organizations. Neuralytics, as the company dubs its technology, offers ...
Microsoft previews Cortana, Office integration in Dynamics CRM 2016
Microsoft Corp. is making a strategic pit stop amid CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitious push to the cloud this morning with the announcement of a major upcoming update to the on-premise version of Dynamics CRM that will incorporate a host of enhancements from the cloud edition. Chief among them is better integration with the Cortana Analytics ...
What you missed in Big Data: Human insights
The burgeoning analytics ecosystem witnessed another round of consolidation last week after Microsoft Corp. acquired a startup called VoloMetrix Inc. for its productivity tracking software. The deal aims to bolster the workforce monitoring capabilities that it’s been developing internally for Office 365 and intends to launch within the next few weeks. VoloMetrix brings pre-implemented performance dashboards to ...
