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INTERVIEW
An elevator maker reveals the ups and downs of digital transformation
A list of the 10 large companies that have most successfully transformed their businesses through technology published in the Harvard Business Review last year included many of the usual suspects – and one that many people probably wouldn’t even recognize. Thyssenkrupp AG, a German materials giant that can trace its roots back more than 200 ...
SAP cloud sales surge, but profit squeeze knocks back shares
Strong growth in cloud sales led SAP SE to raise its full-year revenue and profit projections for the third time this year, but third-quarter profits missed analyst estimates, prompting a selloff in its shares today. SAP stock dropped nearly 7 percent in trading today, to its lowest level since May. A defiant Chief Executive Bill McDermott ...
IBM surprises investors with quarterly revenue decline
Wall Street threw a party today, but IBM Corp. ended up with the hangover. On a day when the Dow Jones soared more than 500 points, IBM shares fell more than 4 percent in immediate after-hours trading on fiscal second-quarter earnings results that missed in nearly every category. Update: In Wednesday trading, shares were falling ...
With fall release, Talend jumps into data cataloging and API development
Data integration company Talend SA is expanding its scope into data cataloging and application program interface development with the fall update to its Talend Data Fabric integration platform announced today. Both markets are growing quickly as organizations seek to get a better handle on the data they already have and expose it through APIs. The ...
IBM rolls out cross-platform managers for AI, multiclouds and security
Furthering its campaign to become an agnostic integrator and management provider for outside technologies, IBM Corp. has rolled out separate frameworks for managing artificial intelligence applications, multicloud instances and collections of security products. The frameworks make extensive use of Kubernetes, the wildly popular software for managing large numbers of the lightweight virtual machines called containers. With ...
Looker gets vertical in new version of its business intelligence platform
Looker Data Sciences Inc. today added industry- and function-specific templates along with a host of new goodies for analysts in version 6 of its namesake business intelligence platform. Compared with the overhaul Looker made a year ago, this round of enhancements is more modest, consisting of a suite of software development tools targeted at data analysts, support ...
MarkLogic claims to do data lakes one better with cloud integration engine
MarkLogic Inc. is continuing to bulk up the data integration features it introduced last spring by combining its NoSQL database with its Data Hub and delivering the two as a service. The company claims the MarkLogic Data Hub Service is an alternative to data lakes that makes it simple to manage, curate, secure and use data without ...
DEEP DIVE
In post-hurricane cleanup efforts, there’s a new ally: drones
At one point during last month’s Hurricane Florence, a storm surge completely cut off the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, and its nearly 120,000 residents from the outside world. People desperate to return to their homes via Interstate 40 – the main highway leading into Wilmington – were confronted by an ocean that seemed to ...
Unicorn sighting: Talkdesk raises $100M for its intelligent contact center software suite
Talkdesk Inc. today said it has raised a $100 million funding round, calling it the largest round ever raised by a private company in the contact center industry. The Series B funding, which was led by hedge fund Viking Global Investors LP with participation from existing investor DFJ Growth Management LLC, boosts the company’s valuation above ...
Eximchain claims first supply chain network based on public blockchain
With $20 million in initial coin offering financing in its pocket, Eximchain Inc. today launched a blockchain-based global supply chain platform that companies of all sizes can use to validate their credibility for help in financing and finding new contracts. Hatched out of the MIT Media Lab, the Singapore-based company is tackling one of the ...
