Performance management biz Adaptive Planning nets $45M from BVP & others

Leading corporate performance management (CPM) company Adaptive Planning has raised a massive $45 million in its fourth and final round of funding with a goal to further dominate the CPM space.

Salesforce: The cloud is not an ‘all or nothing game’ for health care

Despite the obvious flexibility and cost savings of cloud technologies, health care providers are treading carefully -- largely because of security concerns.

Hotel Ninjas launches its ‘Salesforce.com for the hospitality industry’ (exclusive)

Cofounder Avi Meir said he was inspired to start the company after realizing that most hotels still relied on "expensive, outdated, server-based technology."

Can you explain your ‘big data’ tech to a middle schooler? (video)

We invited four enterprise CEO's for an interview at the VentureBeat office. The catch? They had to explain their tricky tech to a panel of kids.

As e-commerce grows and grows, ChannelAdvisor files for IPO

ChannelAdvisor filed for an IPO today, proposing to raise $86.25 million, although the price per share and number of shares has not yet been revealed.

Ryan Holmes: HootSuite on the same user growth curve as Evernote, Zendesk

"We're kinda matching Zendesk and Evernote in user growth curve," Holmes said. "Our progressive cycle to each additional million is getting shorter and shorter, which is a good thing."

Is the future of mobile wallets finger-lickin’ good? KFC and Airtag think so

I asked Airtag CEO Jeremy Leroyer what happens when we deal with 35 different merchants: Do we need 35 different apps?

Data-visualization startup Tableau Software files for $150M IPO

“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.

DecisionDesk nets $1.7M to help colleges & companies pick the best people (exclusive)

Ever had to collect thousands of applications and whittle them down to find the best hundred candidates? It’s not an easy task, but DecisionDesk wants to change that.

Bloomfire gets $8M, says Yammer collaboration is ‘information overload’

Bloomfire thinks that Yammer isn't tapping into all the different places employees might be important project information. The company, which has set out to help people search their own networks for relevant information, received $8 million today.

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.

Readying for IPO, app monitoring all-star New Relic nets $80M from Insight, T. Rowe Price, & others

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.

MyCustomizer: If mass customization is the future, here’s the tool to create it

You've heard the bit about the best way to make money during the gold rush, right? It's not joining the mob of prospectors, but selling them pickaxes and shovels.