February 9, 2016
POP today released the latest version of POPin, a leadership tool that drives desired business outcomes by enabling executives and all employees throughout an organization to facilitate collaboration with internal teams, partners and customers. The new POPin release provides an improved user experience with a “Self-Launch” feature that allows employees to launch and self-host their own POPin sessions about any topic to group within an organization.
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January 28, 2016
EnterpriseDB® (EDB™)the leading Postgres database company, today announced the immediate availability of the EDB Postgres Advanced Server® 9.5. EDB Postgres Advanced Server increases performance and scalability, powers more complex workloads, enhances security, and both expands compatibility with and facilitates migration from Oracle.
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January 26, 2016
(January 26, 2016) – nGenx, a cloud services pioneer in the delivery of hosted workspaces, including applications, data, and desktops, today announced an update to the nGenx Cloud Application Catalog which now contains more than 1,800 applications in every category. The catalog is available to organizations using the nFinity® nWorkspace™ Workspace as a Service (WaaS) platform who are interested in deploying their important business applications in the cloud for anytime, anywhere application access via desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
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January 26, 2016
WordPress is currently the most popular content management and web publishing platform. It is used to host company websites and ecommerce shops, as well as blogs. Web designers love it because it’s extremely versatile an adaptable for a range of applications. Users love if for its simplicity and efficacy.
Using WordPress requires little knowledge of web design, coding or other technical skills. In fact, WordPress currently hosts over 25% of the top 10 million websites worldwide, including Search Engine Land, Mashable, Marketing Land and TIME, popular marketing websites.
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January 21, 2016
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January 21, 2016
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and First Data (NYSE: FDC) today announced plans to eliminate the complexity from business-to-business (B2B) payments with the rollout of the AribaPay™solution across Europe and Latin America. An innovative electronic payment solution delivered through the Ariba® Network, AribaPay enables companies of all sizes to complete B2B payments with the same simplicity, reliability and security that consumers do.
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January 20, 2016
Appcara Inc., a provider of multi-cloud and application automation solutions, announced today that its key application deployment/management product, App360, has been selected by Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) to power a major element of that company’s nationwide cloud computing service, Akaza. App360 is the main enabling technology behind the Akaza App Marketplace, a selection of popular enterprise applications that businesses can access virtually via the cloud to save money and improve productivity for their organizations.
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January 20, 2016
Alpha Software Corporation, accelerating how developers build and deploy mobile and web business apps, today released results from a commissioned survey of enterprise application developers that identifies what they and business users of mobile applications deem critical requirements for success amid the coming enterprise mobile app explosion.
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January 19, 2016
KnowBe4 announced the release of a new tool for IT managers that can be deployed to their user’s Outlook Inbox, allowing employees a safe way to report a suspected phishing attack. The tool helps educate users to be alert for phishing attacks and enables them to easily report a suspicious email with a simple click, providing the security team a way to analyze threats and prevent future exposure. All email headers are included for the security team and the email gets deleted from the user’s inbox.
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January 13, 2016
nGenx, a cloud services pioneer in the delivery of hosted workspaces, including applications, data, and desktops, today named six key trends that it expects to drive substantial adoption of Workspace as a Service (WaaS) solutions and services in 2016. These trends include the continued adoption of cloud computing technologies; growing demand for more flexible software licensing; the consumerization of IT; the need for greater data security; enhancements in business continuity, and greater focus on IT cost containment. As these trends grow, they are expected to drive higher demand for WaaS by small and medium businesses over the next 12 months.
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January 12, 2016
Rocana, a pioneering operations analytics firm applying big data analytics to IT Operations, today announced Rocana Ops 1.3, the latest version of the highly scalable, fault tolerant solution for managing and analyzing event-oriented machine data for enterprises worldwide. With a key new advanced analytics module that builds on existing strength in anomaly detection, Rocana 1.3 further extends the company’s technology leadership in IT Operations Analytics.
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January 11, 2016
(Tampa Bay, FL) January 11, 2016–KnowBe4 announced its explosive year over year growth of 358% for Q4 2015, with a record number of new corporate accounts and a stellar customer retention rate of over ninety percent. Fueling this growth is the strong demand for its Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training and integrated phishing platform. KnowBe4 has seen 2014-2015 annual growth of over 350% and consecutive growth for a record 10 straight quarters with an impressive 950% growth rate since 2011. Rapidly rising scams such as the Business Email Compromise (BEC) and new ransomware strains targeting businesses have helped propel the need for a better way to manage the problem of social engineering.
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January 10, 2016
with Hannah Egan, IBM CommerceIn this interview, we posed several questions to Hannah Egan, Product Strategy Specialist, IBM Commerce and she helped us understand the changing customer experience landscape and offered some useful tips. Read More >>>
January 8, 2016
Shure Incorporated announced that it has joined the Cisco® Solution Partner Program as a Solution Partner. The Internet of Everything (IoE) continues to bring together people, processes, data, and things to enhance the relevancy of network connections. As a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program, Shure is able to quickly create and deploy solutions to enhance the capabilities, performance, and management of the network to capture value in the IoE.
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January 7, 2016
A new report by Allied Market Research titled, “World Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) Market – Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014 – 2020” projects that the global cloud IAM market would garner revenue of $2.8 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 26.2% during the forecast period 2015 – 2020. Multi factor authentication service is expected to witness fastest growth, at a CAGR of 30.5% from 2015 to 2020. North America was the highest revenue generating region in 2014 for cloud IAM, followed by Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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January 7, 2016
Franklin, MA, January 11, 2016 – Accolade, the technology leader in high performance FPGA based packet capture and application acceleration adapters/NICs, today introduced the ANIC-40Ku, the market’s most advanced, quad 10GbE application acceleration network adapter/NIC. The ANIC-40Ku leverages Xilinx’s State of Art Ultrascale technology to offer the most scalable application acceleration feature sets within the market’s most cost-optimized FPGA platform all delivered within the lowest possible power budget. The ANIC-40Ku enables OEM customers to focus on software innovation that maximizes product differentiation and accelerates time-to-market in network monitoring and security solutions.
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December 26, 2015
There are always upgrades you can make to run your business more efficiently, but you need to find a way to prioritize them. A new computer may not break new ground, but it will speed up your day-to-day tasks. Alternatively, there is a host of software out there that makes the management of your employees and your business easier. Here is a look at some of the best upgrades you should invest in for the new year.
December 11, 2015
Today, Clarizen, a global leader in collaborative work management software, today announced it has finalized its integration with Gainsight™, the Customer Success company, providing organizations with a 360-degree view of the customer engagement lifecycle. The Clarizen-Gainsight combination leverages Clarizen’s existing Salesforce platform integration, resulting in transparency across all roles involved with procuring and managing a customer. This insight into the health of the customer throughout the entire engagementmaximizes customer satisfaction, which, in turn, drives customer loyalty and repeat business.
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December 9, 2015
Biamp Systems, a leading provider of innovative, networked media systems, today unveiled an all-new online training course for its market-leading Audia® digital audio platform. Designed to be flexible and on-demand, the self-paced course allows integrators and end-users to gain insights into maintaining the company’s Audia solutions.
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December 3, 2015
TeamQuest, a global leader in IT capacity planning and management, today announced the acquisition of PureShare, a leading provider of business value dashboards. The acquisition will enable IT organizations to predict the health and risk of their operations while providing IT and business leadership with actionable information they need to make informed decisions.
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December 2, 2015
Today, we are seeing more news about sites from major online retailers and service providers like HP, Target, PayPal and Neiman Marcus going down. High site traffic, poor configurations, scalable architectures, and well planned recovery practices all come into play.
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November 30, 2015
IBM (NYSE: IBM) predicts Cyber Monday online sales will grow by more than 18 percent compared to 2014. Driven by a surge in mobile shopping, consumers indicate that Samsung, Sony and LG TVs as well as Apple Watch and Beats by Dre are at the top of their shopping lists, according to the IBM Watson Trend App. IBM Watson Trend features the hottest 100 consumer electronics, toys and health and fitness products at any given time and is available for free download in the Apple App Store.
November 19, 2015
by Antoine Mottier, BonitasoftUnderstanding customer need is more important today than ever as millennials enter the workforce. According to Goldman Sachs, millennials are one of the largest generations in history and are about to move into their prime spending years – poised to reshape the economy. Read More >>>
November 19, 2015
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today launched the IBM Watson Trend App, a new way for shoppers to understand the reasons behind the top trends of the holiday season and also predict the hottest products before they sell out. The app is available via a free download at the Apple App Store. The IBM Watson Trend app distills the sentiment of tens of millions of online conversations by scouring 10,000 sources across social media sites, blogs, forums, comments, ratings and reviews. Unlike other apps or lists that provide a static ranking of “hot” products, the Watson app reveals how consumers feel about the products they are considering or have purchased.
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November 19, 2015
NEW YORK, November 18, 2015 – Sisense version 6 significantly expands Sisense’s advanced analytics capabilities, as well as furthers the platform’s ability to integrate across the business analytics ecosystem. Sisense’s expertise in complex data includes both large data sets and data derived from multiple, disparate sources. Adding these new features on top ofSisense’s proven ability to deploy Business Intelligence solutions while eliminating data preparation efforts typically required from an IT organization, expands the efficacy of Sisense’s business analytics solution for large, disparate data sets.
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November 17, 2015
Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, Yellowfin, has signed a reseller agreement with US BI, analytics, data integration and data warehouse consultancy, Sherwin Lake Group.
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November 17, 2015
Condusiv® Technologies, the world leader in software-only storage performance solutions for virtual and physical server environments, today announced the findings from ESG Labs that validates the before/after performance results of V-locity® I/O reduction software, based on an independent audit of data that was collected from 3,450 systems evaluating the software at over 100 sites. ESG’s audit, which measured the achieved performance benefits of V-locity from virtual server to storage, found that Condusiv’s I/O reduction software leads to significant storage performance improvements without the need to purchase additional hardware.
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November 16, 2015
New wearable wristband can be used to enter hotel rooms, charge purchases around the hotel to track family’s holiday spending, control air conditioning and energy consumption in each room, as well as tapping into the latest technological trends that enhance the guest experience.
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November 16, 2015
X2O Media, a Barco company, today announced that it will feature its award-winning X2O platform for enterprise visual communications at the HR Leaders Summit 2015, Nov. 18-19 in Toronto. Attendees will get a first-hand look at the platform’s innovative applications built to support today’s digital workforce, including the new X2O.Join connected desktop application.
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November 12, 2015
Rules are made to be broken, and in the world of social media for business, this could not be more true. Professionals in digital brand management and marketing have had the so-called ‘rules’ of social media drummed into them during academic or extracurricular study, whilst rogue marketers will definitely come across them in any Google search related to social media. However, as the window for innovation continues to open, how are we able to continue to work within these confines of the profession? To break the rules, it’s first essential that you learn them. Knowing when the benefits outweigh the risk is key to knowing when and when not to break these social media rules.
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