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National Instruments Selects Attivio AIE for Advanced Enterprise Search and Unified Information Access Roadmap

May 29, 2013 No Comments

Attivio today announced that National Instruments has selected the Active Intelligence Engine® (AIE®) to power its dot-com, eCommerce, intranet and CRM search capabilities. The announcement follows a competitive, multi-vendor evaluation designed to replace National Instruments’ (NI) incumbent enterprise search supplier and enable more efficient, future-proof information discovery and analysis.

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Network Route and Multicast Monitoring Now in SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

May 23, 2013 No Comments

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today introduced new network route and multicast monitoring capabilities within its flagship network management product, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM). SolarWinds NPM offers IT professionals powerful network fault, availability and performance management, simplifying detection, diagnosis and resolution of network issues before outages occur.

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IBM Smarter Commerce Summit Ushers in Era of Cognitive Computing for Consumers with Watson

May 23, 2013 No Comments

This week at the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a series of advanced solutions, market studies and transformation projects that demonstrate how its solutions and services are revealing profound insights to help businesses connect with customers, accelerate the supply chain and increase profits. Headlined by the debut of the first consumer-facing Watson offering for Smarter Commerce, the conference showcases how leading-edge executives are deploying big data analytics delivered through cloud-based solutions on mobile devices to stay one step ahead of changing market expectations in fiercely competitive industries.

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Tangoe and SAP Sign Software Development Cooperation Agreement (SDCA) for Collaboration on Mobile Security and Management Solution

May 22, 2013 No Comments

Tangoe, Inc. (NASDAQ: TNGO), a leading global provider of Mobile Communications Lifecycle Management (CLM) software and related services, today announced that it has signed a Software Development Cooperation Agreement with SAP AG. Under terms of the agreement, Tangoe and SAP will work cooperatively to integrate Tangoe’s Mobile TEM software suite with the SAP Mobile Secure portfolio including SAP® Afaria® 7.0.

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SOLARWINDS SETS ITS SIGHTS ON THE SMB AND THE CLOUD, AGREES TO ACQUIRE N-ABLE

May 22, 2013 No Comments

SolarWinds® (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held N-able Technologies, a leader in Cloud-based remote monitoring and management (RMM) and service automation software for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). SolarWinds is acquiring N-able for $120 million in cash.

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Concurrent Completes the Big Data Hat Trick for Hadoop Applications

May 22, 2013 No Comments

Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today introduced Pattern, a free, open source, standard-based scoring engine that enables analysts and data scientists to quickly deploy machine-learning applications on Apache Hadoop™.

BP LOGIX RECOGNIZED AS INNOVATOR IN BPM MARKET BY INFO-TECH RESEARCH GROUP

May 21, 2013 No Comments

BP Logix, developer of BPM software that accelerates time-to-value, today announced that the company has been recognized by Info-Tech Research Group as an “Innovator” in BPM. In its April 2013 Report: Vendor Landscape: Business Process Management (BPM) Suites,BP Logix was singled out as both a notable performer and winner of the research group’s “Trend-Setter” award. That coveted designation was given based on the predictive modeling and timeline patent of the BP Logix flagship product, Process Director.

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Alteryx Raises $12 Million to Put Big Data Analytics in the Hands of All Business Analysts

May 20, 2013 No Comments

Alteryx, Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics, today announced that it has received $12 million in financing from Toba Capital (recently formed by Vinny Smith, former CEO and founder of Quest Software) and existing investor, SAP Ventures. This financing will support accelerated growth through added sales, marketing and product investments, along with international expansion.

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Future of Open Source Survey

May 17, 2013 No Comments

Survey results reveal the cultural impact of open source software and its influence.

SolarWinds User Device Tracker Adds Whitelisting and Port Shutdown Capabilities

May 15, 2013 No Comments

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced enhanced security updates to SolarWinds User Device Tracker (UDT), one of the industry’s only standalone device tracking and switch port management solutions.

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Business Intelligence vendor Yellowfin appoints South African distributor

May 15, 2013 No Comments

The agreement will see AIGS offer Yellowfin, and its associated suite of professional services, directly throughout Sub Saharan Africa, trading under the name Yellowfin South Africa. AIGS CEO, Ricky Parry – who also successfully developed the Progress Software brand in South Africa – said that the time was right to introduce Yellowfin to the African market.

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Gravitant Introduces Just in Time I.T.™ Strategy for Agile and Dynamic Cloud

May 15, 2013 No Comments

Gravitant, a cloud brokerage and management solutions provider, today announced that it can help enterprises easily scale cloud resources based on demand with Gravitant’s Just in Time I.T.™ strategy.

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Arcadia Solutions Partners with AppNeta to Identify and Improve EHR Application Performance within Ambulatory Practices

May 15, 2013 No Comments

Arcadia Solutions, a leading provider of data-driven quality improvement solutions, today announced its partnership with AppNeta, the leading provider of Saas solutions for exceptional performance of business-critical applications.

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New Study Reveals Businesses Unknowingly Pass Up On Big IT Cost Savings

May 14, 2013 No Comments

Despite an overwhelming effort by businesses to reduce unnecessary IT costs, many organizations miss out on big IT cost savings each year by prematurely upgrading networking infrastructure and insufficiently scrutinizing ongoing maintenance contracts.

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8KMiles Acquires FuGen Solutions to Enhance Security Cloud Expertise and Offering

May 14, 2013 No Comments

8KMiles, a leading global cloud computing company, today announced the acquisition of FuGen Solutions for $7.5 million to expand and build on its cloud and big data security services and solutions to better serve and meet large enterprises and government agencies’ growing security and compliance needs.

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Yellowfin announces free Business Intelligence for students and not for profits

May 14, 2013 No Comments

Global Business Intelligence (BI) software vendor, Yellowfin, has today announced that it will offer free software licenses to students and teachers for classroom learning, as well as not-for-profit organizations. Under the initiative, Yellowfin will be unconditionally free for student learning and teaching purposes. Training for Yellowfin students will be offered via Yellowfin’s library of free training resources, available through the Yellowfin website, and dedicated YouTube channel (Yellowfin Team).

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Service Pro® for Sage 100 ERP Delivers Integrated Service Management, Scheduling and Mobile Field Service Software for iPad®, iPhone®, Android® or Windows®

May 13, 2013 No Comments

MSI Data, a leading provider of field service management software, announces today that it has partnered with Sage Software as a Silver Development Partner, integrating Service Pro® with Sage 100 ERP, formerly Sage ERP MAS 90. Service Pro® offers field service and repair service businesses a single solution for providing better customer service and improving productivity through integrated tracking of all of their service activities, assets, parts, technicians, schedules and more.

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Arteria Technologies Named “Cool Vendors in the SAP Eco System, 2013” by Gartner Inc

May 10, 2013 No Comments

Bangalore, India, 9th May, 2013 – Arteria Technologies, a leading provider of Mobility and Portal solutions on SAP technology and a part of All World Network @ Harvard Business School today announced that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the report titled “Cool Vendors in the SAP Eco System, 2013” by Gartner, Inc.

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BullGuard Set to Reward Customers and New Users With Free Service

May 9, 2013 No Comments

BullGuard, a leader in user-friendly PC and mobile security solutions for consumers, today announced a new program, “Tell A Friend,” designed to help customers gain rewards such as free or discounted services for referring their friends to the software company.

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IBM Innovation Center Opens in Kenya

May 9, 2013 No Comments

As part of its ongoing expansion in Africa, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today opened its first IBM Innovation Center in East Africa. Located in Nairobi, Kenya, the center will help fuel growth and innovation in the region, providing IT partners, developers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and academics with access to the latest enterprise software and hardware, training and business and marketing support. The IBM Innovation Center is co-located with a new IBM Client Center that brings IBM’s expertise to clients in the region.

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Kroll Ontrack embraces e-commerce for industry leading Ontrack Eraser 4.0 data wiping software

May 9, 2013 No Comments

May 7, 2013 – Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of data recovery, ediscovery and information management products and services, today announced a new subscription-based pricing model for its industry leading enterprise data eraser solution, Ontrack® Eraser 4.0. Starting at $99.95, the new model offers customers a simple and flexible way to meet the specific data erasing needs of their business by purchasing the solution directly from the Kroll Ontrack online shop.

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IT Professional Community thwack Helps Crowdsource 43 New SolarWinds Product Features

May 8, 2013 No Comments

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced that its thwack community members have helped influence the implementation of 43 new or enhanced SolarWinds product features through Ideation™ – thwack’s crowdsourcing feature request and voting platform.

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Mobile App From gicom Now SAP-Certified as Powered by SAP NetWeaver®

May 8, 2013 No Comments

Today, gicom announced that its business app called Contract2Go has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. The mobile app has been proven to integrate with the SAP® ERP application, providing buyers a mobile application for their negotiations with their suppliers. During the negotiation meetings, they can change prices and conditions with sliders and inputs to simulate purchasing data in real time up to the product level.

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Gravitant Named as American Technology Award Finalist in Cloud Computing/Software as a Service Category

May 8, 2013 No Comments

Gravitant®, the leader in cloud services brokerage and management, has been named a finalist in the Cloud Computing/SaaS category for the 2013 TechAmerica Foundation American Technology Awards (ATAs). The ATAs cross the technology industry recognizing products and services like cloudMatrix.

SAP Introduces SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud to Deliver Fast Time-to-Value and Maximum Choice

May 8, 2013 No Comments

In response to strong global customer demand, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud service. This cloud-based offering is designed to provide organizations with a new deployment option to gain immediate value from the innovation of SAP HANA®, the next-generation in-memory platform.

Bluelock Launches Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service Solution

May 7, 2013 No Comments

Bluelock, a certified VMware vCloud® Datacenter provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, announces the launch of its new Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering, the 4-Series Virtual Datacenter. The RaaS offering enables organizations to recover critical IT resources with increased efficiencies and complete effectiveness when an adverse situation strikes.

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Southern California Edison expands forecasting capabilities with SAS

May 6, 2013 No Comments

Because energy trading opens with the markets, Southern California Edison (SCE) forecasters and meteorologists are on the job at 4 a.m., running forecasts for weather, short-term load and renewables output. Using SAS® Analytics for utilities, SCE has begun improving its forecasting efficiency by integrating and analyzing vast stores of data in its energy forecasting platform.

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Site24x7 Service Launches Internal Network Monitor at Interop 2013

May 6, 2013 No Comments

Site24x7, the cloud infrastructure monitoring service from ManageEngine, today announced the launch of the On-Premise Monitor, the new feature that extends Site24x7 to include availability and performance monitoring of websites, web servers, custom portals and other IT resources inside users’ private networks. The move takes the convenience and cost-effectiveness of Site24x7’s cloud-based monitoring and brings those advantages behind the company firewall.

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Alteryx Unveils Instant Analytics for the Line-of-Business Analyst – for Free

May 6, 2013 No Comments

Alteryx, Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics software, today announced Project Edition, a free, easy-to-use analytics solution designed to unleash the capabilities of the hundreds of thousands of business and data analysts in every line-of-business group. With the power to utilize any data source, the Project Edition leverages the newly available Alteryx Strategic Analytics 8.5 platform to enable these analysts to build, iterate and deploy an analytic workflow or application without the delays and budget restrictions of legacy solutions.

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WhereScape and ICC Announce Strategic Partnership

May 6, 2013 No Comments

WhereScape, a provider of agile development software for modeling, building, extending and automating data warehouse development, announced today it has signed a strategic partnership with ICC, a leading provider of enterprise technology solutions with more than 500 consultants worldwide. The announcement was made at the TDWI World Conference where WhereScape is exhibiting in booth #302.

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