Microsoft looks to poach Salesforce.com customers with aggressive pricing
Microsoft has created an aggressively priced CRM Online product bundle that includes both Office 365 and its Power BI tool, in a bid to steal customers away from rival Salesforce.com.
View ArticleWhat to expect at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce
It's just days until Salesforce.com's massive Dreamforce event in San Francisco, where CEO Marc Benioff and celebrity guests will hold forth before an expected 140,000 attendees. While that number is...
View ArticleSalesforce unveils Wave, its play in Cloud analytics
The knock against Salesforce.com has long been for its lack of robust analytics, but the company is hoping to change that perception and challenge the competition with Wave, its sixth discrete Cloud...
View ArticleSalesforce and Microsoft partnership gains some steam
Salesforce.com and Microsoft's budding partnership has yet to produce everything the companies promised in their product-integration announcement earlier this year, but more specific delivery dates...
View ArticleSalesforce.com gives mobile app development a 'Lightning' strike
Salesforce.com's development platform is known for its ability to create new apps quickly and easily, but with the launch of Lightning, both business users and programmers can get in on the fun.
View ArticleSAP gives on-premises software customers assurances, even as it pushes the cloud
SAP may be trying to become a big player in cloud-based business software, but most of its customers run their applications on-premises and many have no plans to move them into the cloud anytime soon.
View ArticleSAP looks to long-time ally IBM for help expanding in the Cloud
SAP's Hana Enterprise Cloud service will be made available through IBM's global Cloud infrastructure, in a move that expands options for customers around the world who are considering moving their...
View ArticleOracle database certifications aren't 'permanent' anymore
Oracle is requiring database administrators to upgrade their certifications if the ones they hold are for older versions of its platform.
View ArticleRimini Street's practices remain 'suspect,' Oracle alleges
Oracle isn't satisfied that Rimini Street's new procedures for third-party support for Oracle software are legal, a stance that could further extend the companies' long-running intellectual property...
View ArticleSAP offering customers 'simpler' way to buy its Hana in-memory platform
SAP is hoping a new set of programs, services and policies will help rev up sales of its Hana in-memory database and computing platform.
View ArticleEMC buys controlling interest in VCE, its joint venture with Cisco
EMC has confirmed it will purchase the bulk of Cisco's stake in VCE, the companies' joint venture in converged infrastructure products.
View ArticleOracle says state wanted to take 'unacceptable risk' with health care website...
The blame game between Oracle and the state of Oregon is going into overtime, even before their dueling lawsuits over the disastrous Cover Oregon health insurance exchange website make it into court.
View ArticleTwitter, IBM form partnership around analytic apps
IBM and Twitter have announced a partnership that will merge Twitter's massive flows of social media data with Big Blue's analytics software, including Watson.
View ArticleOracle's Larry Ellison isn't done building his legacy
Larry Ellison may no longer be CEO of Oracle, but he's not going anywhere anytime soon. Indeed, as executive chairman and CTO, Ellison is now in a position to focus solely on creating new products and...
View ArticleWorkday plots wave of predictive analytic apps
Workday is expanding its move into analytics with a series of specialized, predictive applications designed to help staff in HR and financial management roles retain top workers and make more accurate...
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