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Birst adds collaboration, limited user import features to BI platform
Continuing its campaign to democratize business intelligence (BI), Birst Inc. is adding features that enable users to carry on conversations while using its networked BI platform and also giving them limited extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities. The company also ported its mobile app to the Android platform. Birst’s novel B I approach maintains a ...
Bolste challenges Slack with “insanely easy” collaboration
Even though Slack Technologies, Inc.’s namesake collaboration platform was a viral phenomenon in 2015, former business coach Leif Hartwig says Slack still isn’t enough. Having watched clients and airport travelers wrestle with the difficulties of integrating disparate technologies for videoconferencing, document sharing and messaging for years, Hartwig says his company has come up with a ...
Investors shower cloud monitor Datadog with another $94 million
Having raised $53.4 million in three previous funding rounds while enlisting big-brand reference customers like Airbnb Inc., Netflix Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. and Spotify AB, it would seem that Datadog didn’t really need another big slug of money. But it’s taking the cash just the same. The maker of cloud monitoring software just closed a ...
Wikibon Analyst: When it comes to private cloud, definitions matter
It may sound like wordsmithing, but Wikibon analyst Brian Gracely thinks it’s important for CIOs to be specific when they use the term “private cloud.” Gracely headed up a Wikibon team that recently published an analysis of the private cloud market, concluding that “true” private clouds will start to be delivered in 2016 as integrated ...
Zebra claims productivity boost by eliminating scanner wrist flick
Little things add up, or at least that’s the argument Zebra Technologies Corp. is using to tout the productivity benefits of its latest innovation in the area of barcode scanners, those handheld devices that warehouse workers around the world use to zap the codes printed on shelves and stock-keeping units for the purposes of inventory ...
John Sculley talks customer control, innovation at the edges and $150 smart phones
More than a decade the past the typical corporation’s mandatory retirement age, John Sculley appears busier than ever. He’s a board member or cofounder of more than 15 companies, a frequent public speaker and author of a new book, Moonshot!: Game-Changing Strategies to Build Billion-Dollar Businesses. Far from resting on the laurels of his success as a ...
Users tell of the many upsides of data quality and integration
Whether through acquisitions or just modifications to legacy systems made over a period of years, mature companies inevitably run into data integration and quality problems. These issues are becoming particularly pronounced in the age of analytics, when companies need to pull data from sources that may number in the hundreds. When formats and fields are ...
Global survey finds cloud computing has gone mainstream
The fifth annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey, conducted by venture capital firm North Bridge in partnership with Wikibon, leaves no doubt that the biggest cloud computing question facing corporations is no longer “whether” but “how much”. The 2015 survey of 952 cloud adopters in 38 countries reveals that cloud adoption has reached record levels in ...
Cloudyn raises $11M to expand cloud management platform
Multi-cloud management startup Cloudyn Ltd. said it has raised an $11 million Series B round of financing and plans to use the infusion to expand its U.S. presence. The Tel Aviv, Israel-based firm is also looking to expand its support of private clouds through support of VMware Inc. and Microsoft Azure Private Cloud platforms. Currently, ...
Digital business still a lot more talk than action, says Capgemini study
Like teenage sex, digital business still appears to be a lot more talk than action, according to a new report by Capgemini Consulting. Its survey of more than 270 senior executives at 135 companies in 28 countries conducted in collaboration with the MIT Center for Digital Business found that the payoffs of organizing a company ...
