Tuesday February 7, 2012

BigTime Raises $2M For Cloud-Based Time And Billing Management Software

BigTime Software, which offers cloud-based productivity software tools to professional services firms, this morning announced that it has raised $2 million in Series A funding in a round from LTC Partners, Geneva Venture Investment Management, Hickory Grove and Howell Capital. The company delivers time, billing and practice management software-as-a-service that integrates with Intuit QuickBooks to [...]

Khosla, Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz Put $16.5M In Enterprise Cloud App Management Startup Okta

Enterprise cloud app management company Okta has raised $16.5 million in Series B funding from Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and FLOODGATE. This brings the company’s total funding to $28 million. Okta is a cloud application management service. Okta’s platform allows companies to have control of their users, applications, and data both in the [...]

ScaleXtreme Raises $11 Million For Cloud-based Systems Management Software

ScaleXtreme, a vendor of cloud-based systems management products, this morning announced it has landed $11 million in Series B funding in a round led by Ignition Partners with participation from previous backer Accel Partners. Frank Artale, managing director at Ignition, will join the board that includes Ping Li from Accel and ScaleXtreme’s Nand Mulchandani and [...]

iControl Lands Over $50 Million For Broadband Home Management Software

iControl Networks, a provider of broadband home management software solutions, this morning announced that it has raised over $50 million in Series D funding, bringing total investment in the company to more than $100 million. The round was led by energy and clean tech investors, with notable backers like Cisco, Comcast Ventures, Intel Capital, Charles [...]

Rally Lands $20M For Agile Application Lifecycle Management Platform

Rally Software, a specialist in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, this morning announced that it has raised $20 million in funding led by Meritech Capital Partners (an investor in companies like Facebook, NetSuite and Salesforce.com). The funding will be used for growth and to accelerate adoption of Rally’s platform for Agile development. The company [...]

Best practices for records management

Records Management best practices include: Policies and Procedures for creating and storing records in both paper and electronic format that are demonstrably supported by an organization’s executives, including the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief Legal Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer A thoroughly documented Records Retention Schedule that lists Records Series [...]

Fixmo Scores $6.5M For Infrastucture Management Solutions For Mobile Devices

Fixmo, which offers solutions to protect and manage enterprise mobile devices, has raised $6.5 million in financing, the company announced this morning. The Series B funding round was led by new investor Panorama Capital, with existing investors Rho Ventures Canada, iNovia Capital, Extreme Venture Partners and management participating. Fixmo co-founder and CEO Rick Segal posits [...]

Records management requirements

Are you confidently up to date on the recent changes to recordkeeping management? Test your knowledge: Do the new I-9 rules affect how you handle immigration records? How does the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act change the retention requirements for your payroll records? What’s the general retention rule of thumb you can safely apply to [...]

VMware Buys Cloud-Based IT Management Service Provider Shavlik Technologies

Virtualization software giant VMware this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire Shavlik Technologies, a provider of cloud-based IT management solutions for small and medium businesses. Financial terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be completed later this year, were not disclosed. Shavlik Technologies provides a portfolio of on-premise and SaaS-based management solutions [...]

Cloud Sherpas Upgrades Google Apps Management App With New Features

Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps reseller that also helps enterprises migrate to and manage the productivity suite, is announcing a milestone today and is upgrading its offering with a number of new features. Cloud Sherpas not only helps companies migrate and transition over to Google Apps but also provides additional tools, called Sherpa Tools, to [...]