How Trulia, ZipRecruiter, Salesforce, and Amplero use AI to power product recommendations
By: Kyle Wiggers Amazon. Netflix. Recommendations are core to some of the web’s most popular platforms, and artificial intelligence helps drive them. And it’s good for more than just queuing up gift ideas and movies. Today at VentureBeat’s Transform 2018 conference, Stewart Rogers, director of marketing technology at VentureBeat, spoke with Ryan Eberhard, vice president of product […]
Salesforce in talks to anchor riverfront skyscraper, add 5,000 jobs
By: Ryan Ori oftware firm Salesforce is eyeing a huge expansion in Chicago, where it could add up to 5,000 jobs and kick off construction of a skyscraper along the river. The San Francisco-based company is in talks to potentially lease more than 500,000 square feet in the planned third and final tower in the […]
Cognizant to Acquire SaaSfocus to Expand Salesforce Cloud Consulting Capabilities
Specialist Firm will Broaden Cognizant’s Digital Transformation Portfolio in India and Australia Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced it has agreed to acquire SaaSfocus, a privately-held consulting firm specializing in digital transformation, leveraging the Salesforce Platform. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018, subject to certain closing conditions. Financial details were […]
Century Business Solutions Enhances Payment Processing On NetSuite
Merchant services provider Century Business Solutions is enhancing its payment processing tool, EBizCharge, integrated into the NetSuite ERP platform. A press release Monday (Aug. 20) said updates to its EBizCharge for NetSuite solution include enhanced integration of payment data, enabling companies to automatically have line-item invoice information sent from NetSuite into the EBizCharge payment gateway. […]
NetSuite Expands Alliance Partner Program to Support Growing Customer Demand
Kodella, Riveron and ITOrizon to Launch Cloud ERP Practices with NetSuite SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle NetSuite today announced three new members have joined the NetSuite Alliance Partner Program to meet the growing demand for cloud business management solutions. As part of the NetSuite Alliance Partner Program, Kodella, Riveron and ITOrizon will […]
SMBs see vertical ERP technology vendors meeting specialty needs
The industry-specific ERP market is thriving, which is good news for SMBs looking to cost-effectively maintain their existing ERP systems with immediate specialty feature upgrades. By: Patrick Thibodou SMB ERP system users are constantly faced with difficult choices as technologies advance and pressures mount to be effective while being cost-effective. Stay on premises or migrate […]
Why Tax Experts Need To Be In The Room Where Cloud ERP Decisions Happen
As companies consider moving their finance systems to the cloud, they’re presented with a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to get their arms around recent changes to corporate tax laws and regulations worldwide, according to one expert. Companies need to choose cloud ERP (enterprise resource planning) and EPM (enterprise performance management) systems built to accommodate those tax changes—and […]
Salesforce’s Kevin Paschuck: Cloud Adoption Plan Could Help Agencies Meet Service, Security Needs
Kevin Paschuck, senior vice president and chief operating officer of public sector business unit at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said agencies that aim to adopt cloud technology should have a plan in place to meet service and security requirements. Agency information technology leaders “should take a top-down, mission-capability view of their system portfolios” first before picking […]
The 5 Best Questions to Ask During an ERP Software Selection
Implementing an ERP system is no small task; it’s going to take a massive amount of time and resources and if you aren’t fully informed, the cost is going to be much higher. You’ve probably been told this a thousand times before, but if you want to learn, you need to ask questions. Because ERP systems are […]
Salesforce.com Could Win Big Betting on Its Einstein AI
By: Harsh Chauhan Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to become a big part of the customer relationship management (CRM) space in the future. Salesforce.com(NYSE: CRM) estimates that AI-related CRM spending will jump nearly five-fold to $46.3 billion in 2021 from 2016 levels. This is why Salesforce is busy integrating AI features into its services, and its […]