8 years ago039Like it or lump it, Microsoft is making damn sure you’re going to be running Windows 10 in the next 12 months
I like Windows 10, but I prefer Windows 7. Is that a sin?
Microsoft thinks so.
Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela recently said that if you choose to keep using Windows 7, you do so “at your own risk,...
8 years ago053The potential obstacles are the very reasons why CFOs should make the move in the first place, says a KPMG executive.
It started with customer data a decade ago, followed by human capital management. Now the wave of cloud adoption is lapping at the door of finance as organizations begin to move their enterprise systems out of the...
8 years ago046All is fair in love, war and technology marketing. In a fantastic example of ignoring the bleedingly obvious, Oracle wants to rewrite the playing field.
Over at Fortune, Barb Darrow detailed a conversation the magazine had with Oracle's vice president of cloud development, Peter Magnusson. The upshot of the conversation was that, in...
8 years ago039A feature that brings CRM functionality to email inboxes and a new field service management service are among Salesforce's latest product updates.
Salesforce chairman and CEO Marc Benioff did not intend to add configure-price-quote (CPQ) software to Salesforce's suite of offerings. But he changed his mind after attending a...
8 years ago046Seven vendors topped Forrester's first Wave for Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, in spite of some confusion in the market as to what exactly "hybrid cloud" means.
Three vendors scored a place as strong contenders.
Scratch below the surface of the cloud computing hype of recent years, and you'll find very few organizations doing a...
8 years ago039Microsoft has come a long way in embracing the cloud, perhaps because it had to.
There is the IaaS/PaaS/STaaS cloud, now dominated by Amazon Web Services both by monetary momentum and a long list of competitors and AWS-compatible ecosystems. Varying organizations also offer a long and interesting list of competitive services, a la...
8 years ago041Bottom line: The fastest path to greater sales and profits for cloud service providers in 2016 will be in delivering analytics, CRM, and CPQ apps that fuel new sales in their customers’ revenue pipelines, proving they can quickly deliver results.
2016 is going to the year where the highest-performing Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)...
8 years ago044If you have used Venmo to pay a friend back or Apple Pay to make a purchase at the store, you likely are familiar with the rise of financial technology (also known as fintech).
Increasingly, however, this disruption is not only playing out with traditional retail banking activities. It's also becoming a new way for businesses to...
8 years ago053Google has discussed the release of a version of Android based on the OpenJDK code
Oracle has raised questions whether a version of Google's Android operating system running OpenJDK code will get an open-source license.
Google told a court in California that on Dec. 24 it released new versions of its Android platform that are...
8 years ago046Augusoft, Inc. and N2N partnership provides higher education with an integrated continuing education solution
Augusoft, Inc., creator of the continuing education SaaS enrollment management solution Lumens, announced with N2N Integration successful data integration between Augusoft’s continuing education enrollment management system,...
8 years ago048Social media is transforming banking relationships in very significant ways, from improving customer service to allowing users to send money to others via online platforms. New financial technology companies are using social media data to help people get access to credit or even simply open a bank account. Social media can even impact...
8 years ago051The company has raised its revenue forecast for 2017
German business software maker SAP expects its revenue from cloud subscriptions and support to be higher than its revenue from software licenses in 2018, reflecting an industry trend.
This would be a dramatic shift for a company, which earlier had licenses and support of its...