Intuit Realigns with More Layoffs
Mountain View, Calif. (August 26, 2015) By Danielle Lee Intuit is laying off 249 employees, according to an internal memo from CEO Brad Smith obtained by TechCrunch. The company confirmed the layoffs, mostly in the Small Business Group, to Accounting Today: “Yesterday we communicated organizational changes that continue to drive our transformation from a […]
Cloud business users grow faster and are twice as profitable says study
Written by Business Cloud News Companies that commit themselves to cloud computing are likely to grow faster and enjoy twice the profit of their non-cloud using rivals, according to a study. The research also indicates that the UK is leading Europe in cloud adoption. However, one critic said there is no evidence that cloud computing […]
Salesforce IoT Cloud promises to create meaning from M2M talk
Written by Business Cloud News Salesforce has launched its Internet of Things (IoT) offering with IoT Cloud, which promises to convert machine to machine conversations, digital content and customer information into useful intelligence that sales staff can act on. The IoT Cloud is powered by event processing engine Salesforce Thunder, which will allow customers to […]
UXC’s Dynamics Unit Experiencing Growth in North America
Australian Microsoft Dynamics partner UXC Eclipse has posted $68 million in revenue from its recently established North American business. Part of UXC Limited, UXC Eclipse grew from a handful of employees to over 200 workers in North America in the past 18 months, according to company officials. UXC Eclipse CEO Bradley Stroop said the company’s […]
MACOLA CHANNEL PLANS OUTLINED
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. Exact Macola has outlined a five-point plan in what it calls a high-level strategy to change its approach to the channel. The plan was detailed by Gayle Prokop, director of alliances and channel development, at this week’s Exact Macola Edge 2015, its channel conference. The first was […]
YEAR-END CHANGE CHOPS INFOR NUMBERS
A change in Infor’s financial year end soured results for the company’s first quarter ended July 31. This is the first quarter to be reported after the software company changed its fiscal year ended from May 31 to April 30 for fiscal 2015. In a recent earnings webcast, CEO Charles Phillips noted the transition helped […]
SBS BUYS AZTEC DYNAMICS BIZ
Bob Scott reporting in his weekly Insights column. The SBS Group has acquired the Dynamics practice of Aztec Systems, a Dallas, Texas-based reseller. It’s not surprising as Aztec, which was once a significant player, had largely disappeared from public view. An SBS press release says has Aztec had more than 200 Dynamics customers and six […]
Microsoft buys VoloMetrix to include people analytics in its cloud offering
Microsoft buys VoloMetrix to include people analytics in its cloud offering | Business Cloud News September 4, 2015 Written by Business Cloud News Microsoft has bought Seattle-based people analytics software maker VoloMetrix. The new addition will become part of an organisational analytics offering to Microsoft’s cloud service customers. VoloMetrix uses information about employee email and […]
World personal cloud worth $90 billion by 2020 says Allied Market Research
World personal cloud worth $90 billion by 2020 says Allied Market Research | Business Cloud News September 7, 2015 Written by Business Cloud News The personal cloud market will have a compound annual growth rate of 33.1 per cent between now and 2020, by which time it will be worth $89.9 billion globally, according to […]
Microsoft unveils cloud security plans for Adallom amid rising cloud unrest
Microsoft unveils cloud security plans for Adallom amid rising cloud unrest | Business Cloud News September 8, 2015 Written by Business Cloud News Microsoft has announced its plans for Israeli founded cloud security firm Adallom, the cloud security firm it bought for a reported $250 million. Detail of the plans for its new acquisition was […]