Microsoft and SAP are two old-school enterprise vendors that have been partnering for almost 20 years, and this week their partnership is taking a pronounced leap into the future as they come together around cloud, mobile and big data products. To that end, the partnership involves 3 parts: The Cloud SAP plans to run several of its […]
Posted on May 19th, 2014 by admin
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Salesforce announced today that it was releasing two new products to help ease the integration between Heroku mobile development tools and Salesforce 1. The new products should make it easier to create applications in Heroku and review data in almost real time as users interact with mobile apps. The first piece is called Salesforce 1 […]
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Today Sift Science, a credit card fraud prevention company, has closed an $18 million Series B round of funding led by Spark Capital, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Max Levchin, and First Round Capital. But what exactly is Sift Science? Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on May 18th, 2014 by admin
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Nothing is more critical to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business than pricing strategy. Pricing is the moment of truth for a new product … and doubly so when it is a company’s first product. But far more often than not, I’ve observed new startups leaving “money on the table” when it comes to pricing enterprise products. […]
Posted on May 17th, 2014 by admin
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Venture capitalist Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures made waves recently when he told TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden that by 2020, (that’s less than 6 years, folks), Apple won’t be a top-3 tech company–and Google and Facebook would be. Wilson argued that Apple’s lack of understanding of the cloud would eventually do it in, while Google and Facebook, […]
Posted on May 17th, 2014 by admin
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Riding what has been a tumultuous wave for publicly-traded technology stocks, today the cloud-based help desk business Zendesk debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. Setting its pricing at $9 per share yesterday, the stock opened up 27% higher at $11.40 on its first trade — a modest rise and by no means a bust. Things got even […]
Posted on May 16th, 2014 by admin
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Buffer, the social media scheduling app with 1.5 million users, picked up a bit of notoriety when it got hacked and its users started sending out weight-loss spam to followers, but also kudos for its generally transparent approach to business. Today, it is announcing a pivot of sorts. The company is adding two new features – a feed-reading […]
Posted on May 16th, 2014 by admin
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Last week while I was the Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit, I noticed a sea change when I talked to vendors, especially cloud vendors who rely on subscription revenue. They invariably told me they have to help their customer succeed or they can just move on at the end of the contract. This has […]
Posted on May 15th, 2014 by admin
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According to security firm Qualys, Windows XP’s market share among enterprise-level corporations has slipped under the 10 percent mark, falling from 10 percent in April to “close to” 8 percent in May. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on May 15th, 2014 by admin
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Rebtel has just infused $12 million into a new spun out company called Sinch, aimed at making communications tools accessible to mobile developers for any app. Not unlike Layer or Twilio, Sinch offers developers tools to add in messaging and voice calls inside their iOS or Android app for what the company describes as “a […]
Posted on May 14th, 2014 by admin
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