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LinkedIn seeks more CRM partners for Sales Navigator app
LinkedIn Corp. is stepping up efforts to woo vendors of customer relationship management (CRM) applications to embrace its Sales Navigator social selling tool with a new partner program that enables vendors to integrate Sales Navigator functionality directly into their applications. LinkedIn previously supported such functionality in Salesforce.com Inc. and Microsoft Dynamics. Earlier this year the ...
Here are details of today’s Oracle cloud announcements
Oracle’s said its new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing initiative is aimed squarely at market leader Amazon Web Services LLC, but its strategy appears to take a page from a more traditional competitor – IBM. Oracle’s announcement this morning stressed the value of bare-metal cloud servers that the company claimed are more than 11 ...
At Oracle’s annual OpenWorld, cloud computing will take center stage
As the 20th annual Oracle OpenWorld conference gets underway next week in San Francisco, the world’s second-largest independent software company will have a lot to show off — and a lot to prove. An estimated 60,000 customers, partners, journalists and analysts will gather for the five-day event to hear how the company plans to maintain its ...
HPE opens up ArcSight platform, courts DevOps practitioners
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE)’s announced plans to spin off its enterprise security software business to Micro Focus International plc didn’t stop the company from flooring its Protect user conference this week or making a few announcements. HPE said it’s opening up its ArcSight Data Platform (ADP) with a new release that the company claims connects ...
Pulpstream brings enterprise workflows to mobile apps
Pulpstream Inc., a company founded by serial bootstrapper Pankaj Malviya, debuted this week with a “zero coding” workstream platform that is oriented toward companies with distributed mobile work forces. The native app platform uses graphical design tools to enable business users to create workflows that integrate with existing enterprise applications and deploy them quickly. Pulpstream is ...
CrunchBase debuts pro version of its database of tech startups
CrunchBase Inc., the online database of the tech startup ecosystem that spun out of TechCrunch Inc. and parent company AOL/Verizon late last year, is debuting a professional version of its service with better search, filtering and notification capabilities than its free offering. The company is pitching CrunchBase Pro, which is priced at $29 per month on ...
Analysts like Dell’s post-EMC prospects, but not so much HPE’s
History may well mark Labor Day week of 2016 as the end of an era in enterprise computing. The completion of Dell Inc.’s acquisition of EMC to form Dell Technologies Inc., along with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co.’s (HPE) sale of most of its software business to UK-based Micro Focus International plc has taken two venerable players out ...
Personal care firm untangles ERP knot with cloud data warehouse
When you’re growing by acquisition, and each company you buy uses a different financial software platform, you need to get creative. At Domtar Corp.’s Personal Care division, that meant leaving transactional systems in place and using a cloud-based data warehouse as an integration point. A spate of five acquisitions over a three-year period between 2011 ...
MapR stresses stability in naming Oracle veteran Mills as CEO
Big data software vendor MapR Technologies Inc. is putting a 20-year Oracle veteran in charge of its day-to-day operations as it enters the home stretch of what it hopes will be the road to an initial public offering (IPO). The company promoted Matt Mills (above right) to chief executive and named co-founder and previous CEO John ...
HPE to sell most of its software business to UK-based Micro Focus
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. will sell much of its software business to U.K.-based Micro Focus International plc for $8.8 billion, retaining a 50.5 percent share of the unit in a deal announced today.
