When you are already the highest valued company in the world, and you want to continue your growth trajectory, what do you do? You move into new territories. That’s why Apple is… Read more »
The landscape of data solutions has been significantly disrupted in the last several years, on multiple fronts. Another such disruption is taking place now, with the mainstreaming of in-memory database (IMDB)… Read more »
For many companies in the Big Data and analytics arena, Strata + Hadoop World was the climax of their Fall news cycles. For Microsoft, the pace and sustained duration of the… Read more »
In the past week I came upon a few data points in what I think will be a significant trend in work technology, which I am calling quantified work at scale… Read more »
Stealth start-up Betterworks surfaced recently, and announced a series A venture round of $15.5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. The company advocates what it is calling Goal Science, basically a structured… Read more »
In an unusual move, Tibco has announced that the firm has been acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $4.3 billion, the largest buyout in tech this year. The sale followed a… Read more »
While Oracle has a cloud platform that it’s been trying to spread to the masses for a few years, the biggest deal regarding the new cloud upgrade is supposedly the ability… Read more »
Following the news that Larry Ellison is stepping down from his CEO perch at long-time rival Oracle, SAP said on Thursday that it now has 50 million cloud users following its… Read more »