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- VCs put big sums into SaaS
- Several SaaS vendors have announced some big funding rounds the past couple of weeks, which suggests that SaaS is still able to command strong VC support where vendors can show good traction for their offerings. The three rounds that caught my eye were: Rearden Commerce, $100 million....
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Rearden Commerce, Analytics, Sales Compensation, Intacct, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- SAP aims to make upgrades easier; Rolls out enhancement packages; Touts Analytics
- Henning Kagermann, co-CEO of SAP, wants to do away with the upgrade-go-round with its upcoming Business Suite 7.0 with "enhancement packages," small optional updates designed to add functionality to enterprise resource planning applications. Enhancement packages are small SOA-enabled packs that can add new functionality to SAP's Business...
- Tags: Analytics, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Enhancement Package, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Processing and Analytics Workbench (9)
- Youre in control of your data with PAW (Processing and Analytics Workbench), a powerful desktop tool that empowers you to create repeatable data processes across multiple databases and applications. Import data from Excel files, text files, web applications, databases or directory sources. Define your own processing that is easy to...
- Tags: Analytics, Data, Sulfe LLC, Financial Planning, Storage, Finance, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-03-31
- Internet registrar Go Daddy deploys a "NICE" VoIP Analytics solution
- You may have heard of Internet registrar and hosting service Go Daddy. We're talking more than 27 million Internet domains under management. With all of these accounts, you could accurately expect Go Daddy to receive a significant amount of customer calls per day. Stuff like, "how...
- Tags: Customer Service, VoIP, Analytics, NICE Systems Ltd., Financial Planning, Internet, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Call Centers, Product Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- 51% of marketers cannot track campaigns across multiple channels
- 51% of marketer said they cannot track campaigns across multiple channels including social networks, e-mail, search and mobile content in real-time, according to Sapient . 35% of them said they’re least confident about tracking in real-time. 42% of managers plan to use social networking analytics tools in the next...
- Tags: Analytics, Social Networking, Financial Planning, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, NB
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- TechCrunch 40: Revenue models and Analytics
- TechCrunch 40: Revenue models and analyticsGreatGreat article.Regards,James Burthttp://www.nhse.org
- Tags: Financial Planning, TechCrunch 40, TechCrunch, analytics
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Kaiser Permanente CIO: Phil Fasano - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Phil thanks for joining me. Phil Fasano: Thank you. Dan Farber: You've been at Kaiser Permanente for several months now, new at the job, almost parachuted in to fix some problems there. What's the size and scope of your operation there?...
- Tags: Patient, Physician, Analytics, Health Care, Information, Member, Medical Record, Organization, Kaiser Permanente, Software-as-a-service Obviously, Administrator
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- More hints that IT systems analysis and on-demand models are coming together
- The hot (albeit not necessarily sexy) segment of IT operations -- the analysis and intelligence-gathering from logs and performance management data -- is showing increasing signs of an on-demand future. First, Paglo came out last month (in beta) with a free and open source (GPL) crawler service...
- Tags: Analytics, Information Technology, On-demand, Data, Analysis, Paglo, LogLogic, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Streaming Analytics With the Netezza Performance Server Appliance: Bringing Appliance Simplicity to Advanced Analytics
- As the pioneer in appliances for analytic processing, Netezza recognized years ago that operating at streaming speeds can be game-changing for data-intensive companies. The architecture of its Netezza Performance Server (NPS) system is based on this principle, improving performance by orders of magnitude. Netezza customers around the world and across...
- Tags: Analytics, Server Appliance, Netezza, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Ooyala soft launches Backlot, a video Analytics and management tool
- Ooyala soft launches Backlot, a video analytics and management toolAIR connectionhello i have a question,With AIR, as could have a connection to a server that has a database SQL Server 2005?regardsthank´s
- Tags: Financial Planning, Corporate communications, Ooyala, Backlot, video analytic, analytics, video
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Ooyala soft launches Backlot, a video Analytics and management tool
- Ooyala, (good Fortune post for more info) a San Francisco startup formed by a couple of ex-Google employees just soft launched their video management system, Backlot. Ooyala is a video platform that aims to do more than just show video. Behind the videos is a sophisticated advertising model that you'd...
- Tags: Analytics, Video, Backlot, Ooyala, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- GA? - Is Google Analytics Installed (5-fx)
- This extension checks the current page you are on to see if Google Analytics is installed. It'll automatically detect and report back to your browsers status bar. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Google Inc., Analytics, Google Analytics, Financial Planning, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-11-12
- Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Transform Data and Analytics Into Meaningful Business Insights With Microsoft Dynamics GP (Level 100)
- This webcast discusses how the integrated intelligence in Microsoft Dynamics GP and other Microsoft technologies can help improve company operations by providing business insights to all employees. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to enable people throughout the organization to make confident, business-critical decisions while minimizing costs.
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Webcast, Analytics, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-11-01
- Analytics, Data and the Time for High Performance Computing in Financial Markets
- This paper describes the current drivers behind the need for greater data analytical power within financial markets, the business and technical challenges these drivers imply and how the Microsoft High Performance Computing (HPC) platform can move financial institutions closer to goal of real-time pricing, trading and risk management across asset...
- Tags: Financial, Analytics, Financial Market, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Avaya IQ: Making the Business Case for Intelligent Contact Center Reporting - How Contact Center Reporting and Analytics Can Deliver a Rapid Return on Investment
- Contact centers are under increasing pressure to lower technology costs and increase the return on every investment. Avaya IQ helps the user achieve these goals. This next-generation reporting and analytics platform gives the user the information he or she needs - from the big picture down to the precise details...
- Tags: Business Case, Analytics, Agent, Contact Center, ROI, Avaya Inc., Avaya IQ, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Real Estate, Financial Planning, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Finance
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Microsoft upgrades adCenter; kicks off ad-Analytics beta
- Microsoft is doing more than snapping up advertising companies and cementing ad partnerships. On the infrastructure side of its growing advertising business, It also is continuing to refine its platform and tools for its existing customer base. The adCenter team upgraded the adCenter online-ad platform with a...
- Tags: Advertisement, Analytics, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Gatineau, Business Structures, Financial Planning, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- SAP's growth spurt: $6.8 billion for Business Objects
- SAP took a page out of Oracle's grow-by-consolidation playbook in acquiring business intelligence leader Business Objects for $6.8 billion (42 Euros per share). SAP CEO Henning Kagermann positioned the acquisition as part of his company's strategy to rapidly grow its customer base. SAP wants to have 100,000 customers by 2010,...
- Tags: Analytics, Business Objects, SAP AG, Business ByDesign, Business Object Acquisition, Financial Planning, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- Leading the High-Performance Organization: The Premier Business Leadership
- To lead with confidence and outpace competitors, one needs to make better, faster decisions. The secret to success lies with analytics. Top organizations view analytics as an essential aspect of their performance strategy and are using it navigate today's challenges and capitalize on tomorrow's opportunities. During this webcast, executive thought...
- Tags: Analytics, High-performance, SAS Institute, Organization, Financial Planning, Leadership, Finance, Management
- Webcasts 2007-10-03
- WASP (25-fx)
- The Web Analytics Solution Profiler is aimed at Web Analytics implementation specialists, Web analysts and savvy Web surfers who wants to understand how their behavior is being analyzed by the sites they visit. Provides detailed information about the data being collected trough Query String and Cookies by web analytics solutions....
- Tags: Web, Analytics, Web Analytics, Web Analytics Solution Profiler, Marketing Research, Financial Planning, Marketing, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-09-28
- Integrien deepens Analytics, betters interop and userability in Q4's Alive 6.0 release
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Integrien Corp. The movement of IT and systems management to the end-to-end business service value level has been a long time in coming. Yet the need has never been higher. Enterprises and on-demand application providers alike need to predict...
- Tags: Complexity, Performance, Analytics, Systems Management, Integrien, Run Book, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Financial Planning, It Services, Network Administration, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Networking, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
White Papers and Webcasts