BlackBerry has always been primarily known as a smartphone for the workplace, but it has lost that status in recent years as iPhone and Android have steadily gained ground in enterprises. But that doesn’t mean BlackBerry won’t keep vying for …
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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 …
Application monitoring business New Relic has scored $80 million in new funds, which will help it secure a place alongside other sexy enterprise startups like Box and Palantir.
No. 3 PC maker Dell's stock has skyrocketed 13 percent on a report that the company is "in talks" to go private.
Guest Post As we move into delivering software-as-a-service, several fundamental assumptions made with enterprise software are no longer valid. An entirely new set of assumptions must be followed to achieve success.
Guest Post You need big bucks to be able to deploy big data. Most companies don't have the IT budget, and can't afford to hire a data scientist or data services team. If the trend is to succeed the companies of all sizes, there are a few problems that will need to be addressed.
Guest Post For the past 50 years, companies built and bought software to automate every aspect of their business ... but as enterprise software’s use expanded, it grew bloated.
Platfora, the startup that made a splash at the recent Strata conference with its flagship product to "unleash the potential of Hadoop," has raised its second round of funding.
Editor's Pick Cartoonist Scott Adams raises two questions: Is no-one buying Microsoft's Surface tablets? And is Microsoft on a long slide toward irrelevance?
Tibbr, the enterprise social network from Tibco, has added new features including a social graph, API for developers, and new integrations with Box, Badgeville, Teamly, and more.
TribeHR, a human resources platform that focuses on the social aspects of personnel management, has announced a new integration with Facebook and LinkedIn.
No. 3 computer manufacturer Dell has agreed to acquire networking applications company Quest Software for $2.4 billion to expand its business-facing capabilities, the company announced Monday morning.
Dell has been in talks to buy Quest since at least May. The …
Enterprise social networking company Jive Software has considerably upgraded its product offerings for the first time since the company went public last December, with the debut of new apps to help its customers stay in touch and collaborate better.
Palo …
The app that first made online project management cool back in 2004 has been entirely reworked to better suit the modern needs of today’s project collaborators.
Basecamp, the eight year-old project management application from 37signals, has received a dramatic redesign …
In what might be the most-jargon-filled press release ever, enterprise-software giant SAP announced Wednesday how it will incorporate and improve SuccessFactors’ enterprise cloud services, after completing its purchase of the company last week.
SAP agreed to acquire human capital-management (HCM) …
Enterprise data software company Splunk has filed for a $125 million initial public offering, according to its SEC S-1 form.
San Francisco-based Splunk offers businesses software to better analyze and interpret their data. The company’s mission is to “make machine …
Jive Software kicked off its initial public offering at $12 a share on the Nasdaq this morning, and closed nearly 30 percent up at $15.05.
The company produces social business software, which enterprises use as an internal communication system outside …
Aaron Levie, the dynamic co-founder and chief executive of cloud-based file sharing company Box (until recently known as Box.net) doesn’t hold back when it comes to his competitors.
“If [Microsoft] Sharepoint happened to work, that’s what we kind of do,” …
HP will buy UK-based enterprise software company Autonomy for $10.3 billion, the company announced during today’s quarterly earnings call.
Autonomy shareholders will receive $42.11 a share, which is a 64 percent premium over Autonomy’s closing share price yesterday. If the …
Virtualization software provider VMware posted strong fourth quarter and yearly results, but a trimmed outlook from the company indicates that enterprise spending could be weaker in 2011 now that pent-up demand for software and hardware that grew during the economic …
