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SugarCRM Inc. is setting the table for what it says will be a major series of announcements at its SugarCon 2016 conference in San Francisco next month with an updated version of its CRM platform that improves information access for customer-facing employees, …
Top sales professionals glomming on to social tools, says LinkedIn
Could this be the end of the cold call? New research by the professional network LinkedIn Corp. shows that social tools are playing a growing role in the sales process, with more than 70 percent of sales professionals using networks like LinkedIn, Twitter …
Automation slashes chip maker’s cloud migration time by 75 percent
Moving operations to the cloud sounds appealing on so many levels: Cut capital expenditures, reduce deployment times and pay only for what you use. But the devil is in the details. That’s what confronted Exar Corp., a Fremont, CA-based supplier of analog …
Tableau beats estimates, says pricing will be more aggressive
Investors might not have liked what they saw in Tableau Software Inc.’s first-quarter earnings results, but customers should have reasons to cheer. The business intelligence powerhouse beat quarterly earnings estimates with break-even results, compared to consensus estimates of a 10-cents-per-share loss. Revenues …
What funding bust? ON24 notches $25M investment
There’s gold in them thar webcasts. ON24, a company that provides webcast services widely used in B2B marketing and lead generation said that Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Investing group has invested $25 million in the company. You may not have heard of …
Startup enlists humans to solve knotty big data problems
When it comes to Big Data, machines can only do so much. At least that’s what startup Spare5 Inc. is betting with the launch of what it calls an “Intelligent Crowdsourcing Platform” that leverages a community of specialists to process Big Data …
Java on the mainframe?<br> Yep, and BMC will manage it
IBM mainframes are not generally considered a hotbed of activity for the Java programming language, but you might be surprised. BMC Software Inc. recently surveyed 1,200 mainframe users and found that 93 percent said their Java usage on big iron is growing, …
OpsDataStore enhances real-time monitoring system
OpsDataStore Inc. has updated its namesake IT service management product with a new version that provides real-time troubleshooting, performance and capacity analytics and customized dashboards. The company pitches its product as providing IT operational information in whatever business intelligence tool the customer chooses …
Datto says it lets SMBs keep things in synch for less
Flush with cash from a $75 million funding round last November, backup and recovery service provider Datto Inc. is taking on the heavy hitters in cloud file storage and synchronization with an offering aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that’s priced …
Slow-loading software seen as $7.5B problem
Nimble Storage Inc. is making a pretty good case for moving from disks to flash storage with a new survey that reveals that business users lose about 10 percent of their day just waiting for programs to load. The ‘Mind the Gap’ report, …