Data integration company SnapLogic raises another $2.3M
SnapLogic, a startup that helps companies pull in business data, has raised $2.3 million in its first round of institutional funding. It also announced that Gaurav Dhillon, the San Mateo company’s co-founder and chairman, is SnapLogic’s new chief executive.
The company charges subscription fees for its DataFlow technology, and says it can access data from “almost any [software-as-a-service], cloud, or Web computing application,” including sales tools like Salesforce.com and SugarCRM, as well as microblogging service Twitter,… Continue Reading
Roundup: Mashups at Web 2.0, Linden Lab gets new executive and more
Here’s the latest action:
Mashup companies take over Web 2.0 — InfoWorld profiles three companies making announcements at this week’s conference: Serena, which is launching an online marketplace for business mashups; JackBe, which has a new version of its enterprise mashup platform; and Kapow, which provides a hosted service to build mashups that provide web intelligence. We’ll also be writing more about Rearden Commerce and Zude in the next few days. And we just covered SnapLogic,… Continue Reading
SnapLogic releases professional versions of data integration software
SnapLogic, an open-source data integration company, is ready to start making money. Until now, SnapLogic’s software — which uses simple web protocols to allow companies to create enterprise mashups — has been available for free, but chief executive Chris Marino says the startup has built enough of a following that it can charging. The software itself will be the same across the free, professional and enterprise editions, but SnapLogic will charge for additional support —… Continue Reading
SnapLogic seeks to simplify data integration
(Updated: This sector is hot. Mulesource, another open source data integration company, has just raised $12.5 million. See our story).
SnapLogic uses open source and the languages of the internet to attack the huge problem of integrating data from multiple sources.
So far, the tools required for such integration have been highly complex. SnapLogic uses simple Web protocols like HTTP and standards like RSS to go after a market estimated by some to be $13.6 billion by… Continue Reading