What do Star Trek and startups have in common? Enterprise and Data play a role in both and nerds everywhere get excited about any news surrounding these topics. Here is today's round up of funding news. Nerds.
is more than doubling its commitment to the SAP HANA Real Time Fund, going from $155 million to $405 million, to support innovation surrounding real-time applications and big data.
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Enterprise software giant SAP has been throwing its hands in the air for years, exclaiming that it is indeed a cloud company. But yesterday, SAP took a big step that shows where the it and its customers are at by …
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“Our mission, to help people everywhere see and understand data, isn’t all that different from Google’s,” Christian Chabot, the company’s cofounder and chief executive, told VentureBeat.
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Imagine this: You’re a founder of a Silicon Valley enterprise software company. It’s only 15 years old, but it’s already worth $3.5 billion. You’ve never lost money, and you’ve left your initial competition in the dust.
The companies you’re now …
A startup called SiSense says it will break computing records today by crunching 10 terabytes of data on a $10,000 machine in a matter of seconds -- all on a single server node.
You can get all sorts of data on fantasy football players with the SAP dashboard.
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Folia Grace recently conducted research with analysts and enterprise customers about upcoming trends the cloud.
Here’s what the SAP Cloud’s VP or product marketing says are the top 10 trends for 2013. Grace talked with VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall about her …
At CloudBeat, the healthcare panel kicked off with a harrowing statistic. The vast majority of breast cancer sufferers will not benefit from chemotherapy. And yet, most patients today receive this highly invasive treatment.
According to genetics expert Ken Stineman, over …
Business software behemoth SAP is betting big on a next generation in-memory database known as "HANA."
At CloudBeat, a panel of healthcare-technology experts will gather to discuss ways to improve security for cloud-based systems.
Apparently Red Bull employees don't just sell energy drinks. They're also customers.
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German business software titan SAP has agreed to acquire Sunnyvale, Calif.-based e-commerce business Ariba for an astounding $4.3 billion, the company announced today.
SAP will pay $45 per share for Ariba, a nearly 20 percent premium over its May 21 …
Business-focused social network Yammer is making good on its promise to all aspects of work software more social. Today the startup announced a slew of new features, including a new Universal Search tool, Premium Yammer Groups, more advanced content sharing …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
SAP, a customer relationship and business management software company, has acquired mobile business service provider Syclo, the company announced Tuesday. Details, including purchase price, were not disclosed.
With the bring-your-own device movement gaining steam, it’s no surprise that SAP snatched …
