BizSlate launches its supply chain assistant for small businesses (exclusive)

BizSlate is ideal for companies that have "outgrown Quickbooks" but don't have ample resources at their disposal.

Plex Systems gets $30M from Accel to push manufacturing into the cloud

Plex Systems, the cloud-based planning and management tool for manufacturers, has received significant strategic investment from Silicon Valley firm, Accel Partners.

Facebook and Twitter’s billing provider, Revstream, launches a cloud-based revenue management app on Force.com

The little-known company that provides high-end revenue lifecycle management software for Twitter and Facebook is now offering the same technology for the little guy.

NetSuite launches “commerce as a service” so any company can be the next Amazon

If you thought cloud companies lacked a sense of humor, think again. NetSuite’s SuiteWorld partner conference in San Francisco opened with a “Wayne’s World”-themed video, in which chief executive Zach Nelson (as Wayne) and founder Evan Goldberg (as Garth) talked …

BizSlate offers cloud-based supply-chain management tool for small companies

BizSlate unveiled a supply-chain management tool for small medium-sized businesses today.

Until recently, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has been an expensive, complicated proposition, offered by the likes of SAP, Oracle, and Sage to large companies that can afford multi-hundred-thousand-dollar …

SAP-SuccessFactors: 9 reasons why this is a smart acquisition

Software giant SAP acquired internet software company SuccessFactors on Saturday for $3.4 billion, in what most accounts praised as a commendable move to embrace the so-called “cloud.”

The “cloud” is a buzz-word that refers to the new way applications are …

SAP acquires SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion

SAP has announced plans to acquire cloud-based business software provider SuccessFactors for $40 per share, a 52 percent premium over the company’s closing price of $26.25 on December 2. The deal is worth $3.4 billion.

SuccessFactors provides online tools for …

Box.net CEO: Apple’s cloud strategy is like Microsoft’s, and it won’t work

There’s not much future in online office-suite apps, like the ones Microsoft and Apple offer, if you believe Box.net chief executive Aaron Levie.

Rather than getting all their office apps from one vendor, he said, the best strategy in the …