Could Amazon become an enterprise collaboration contender?
By: Matt Kapko Microsoft has for decades owned the intersection of collaboration, productivity and communication. However, as these services shifted to the cloud, it opened pathways for greater competition and flexibility in how organizations deployed applications for their workforce. Through G Suite, Google has stretched its resources and refined its family of apps for enterprise. […]
Microsoft vs. Apple: Strategies change but the battle continues
By: Sarah White The Microsoft vs. Apple argument is getting old. At this point, it’s safe to say there’s enough room in the enterprise for both tech giants. Still, it’s difficult to ignore when one starts to surpass the other in either enterprise or consumer popularity. Earlier this month, Apple revealed to TechCrunch that Windows […]
Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM) Stock Is Hot, But Stay Away … For Now
By: Tom Taulli Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE: CRM ) has had a fantastic 2017, up 25% for the year-to-date. And that continued Wednesday after analysts at Merrill Lynch put shares on its coveted list of top buys. Source: Shutterstock On the news, CRM stock is up about 3%. In fact, for the year so far, the […]
Cloud ERP move requires grasp of different types of cloud computing
By: Lauren Gibbins Paul ‘Cloud’ is such a marketing buzzword that it can obscure the type of infrastructure you’ll get with a new ERP system. Here’s a primer on the different types of cloud computing. One difficulty of planning to move your ERP to the cloud: The term is largely a marketing creation. Depending on […]
Unit4 acquires Assistance Software for a born-in-the-cloud professional services professional offering
By: Dann Anthony Maurno Unit4, provider of enterprise applications for professional service organizations (PSOs), has acquired Assistance Software. Assistance provides professional services automation (PSA) solutions. Its Assistance PSA Suite is now Unit4 PSA Suite. The new Unit4 PSA Suite is born in the cloud, with an option for native integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365. Both […]
How IT can foster a spirit of ‘intrapreneurship’
By: Sarah White Entrepreneurship is typically associated with startup companies, and the eager, driven and innovative minds that start them. But there’s another type of entrepreneurship, and it lives inside established organizations. Intrapreneurs are already employed in your organization — they’re workers with progressive ideas that will benefit the company. The only problem is, these […]
Report: 30% of malware is zero-day, missed by legacy antivirus
By: Maria Korolov At least 30 percent of malware today is new, zero-day malware that is missed by traditional antivirus defenses, according to a new report. “We’re gathering threat data from hundreds of thousands of customers and network security appliances,” said Corey Nachreiner, CTO at WatchGuard Technologies. “We have different types of malware detection services, […]
LinkedIn steps closer to CRM as it gives Sales Navigator an enterprise boost
LinkedIn, the social network for the working world that is now owned by Microsoft, is quietly adding more features to fill out some of its bigger ambitions to provide more services to enterprises, tapping into its user base of more than 465 million professionals. And in the process, it’s also playing on one of the big themes not […]
Einstein and Watson
By: Henry Kaiser Einstein and Watson Collaborate for a More Powerful CRM Two of the world’s largest providers of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions are joining forces to expand the scope of their artificial intelligence systems. IBM applied a significant portion of their resources to develop Watson, a cognitive computing technology capable of analyzing […]
Is Tesla Throwing Customer Privacy Under the Wheels?
By: Sam Thielman Luxury car maker Tesla is throwing some drivers’ privacy under the wheels following accidents in order to defend its hi-tech self-driving car technology. And while the company has handed data to media following crashes, it won’t provide its customers’ data logs to the drivers themselves, according to interviews conducted by the Guardian. […]