Software
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Google delays Hangouts consolidation, as Teams and Slack try to narrow market
Google shares a lot of the same strengths as Microsoft in terms of holistic collaboration offering, strengthened by more than five million paying G Suite business customers.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 22, 2019 -
How Zoom became one of this year's biggest tech IPOs
CFO Kelly Steckelberg discusses how she organized operations to support sales and product development, leading to a successful public debut.
By Robert Freedman • Aug. 16, 2019 -
WeWork IPO hints at underlying enterprise tech play
The company has "experience technology," which includes calendar integrations, room booking apps and guest registration kiosks.
By Naomi Eide • Aug. 15, 2019 -
Broadcom banks on software-defined future with Symantec buy
Broadcom will weave Symantec's enterprise business into its expansive portfolio, as it makes the transition from a hardware- to a software-focused provider.
By Naomi Eide • Aug. 13, 2019 -
Amid SaaS thirst, vendors grapple with how to monetize software
Subscription models can lower the barriers of entry for tech adoption. For vendors, the rise of automation could make things more complex.
By Roberto Torres • Aug. 13, 2019 -
Zoom's rise carving market share from Microsoft, Cisco
The newcomer is "actually displacing some of these other giant vendors," Gartner's Tom Eagle told CIO Dive.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 09, 2019 -
Western Digital's roadmap to merging 3 distinct technology stacks
The company began the daunting task of technology rationalization planning around 2015 and broke the effort into chunks. First up: collaboration and communication.
By Naomi Eide • Aug. 08, 2019 -
3 trends shaping the business intelligence market
BI market consolidation highlights emerging trends: Data analytics is more ingrained in daily workflows, connects with more SaaS platforms and runs on more modern infrastructure.
By Roberto Torres • Aug. 07, 2019 -
Slack adopts 'disasterpiece theater' strategy for running uptime exercises
While Slack is confident in its foundational infrastructure, it recognizes "luck" is not a viable strategy as the platform expands, the company said.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Aug. 02, 2019 -
Salesforce must convince industries it can be a unifying tool
The Tableau acquisition, completed Thursday, signals an expansion of Salesforce's data analytics strengths. But in the bigger digital transformation market, it faces fierce competition.
By Roberto Torres • Aug. 01, 2019 -
Microsoft will shutter Skype for Business Online in 2021, making Teams its heir
The company will spend the next two years adding integration capabilities to Teams as it looks to convince existing users to migrate.
By Roberto Torres • July 31, 2019 -
Starbucks' digital strategy is working. Now it wants to dive deeper
With $6.8 billion in revenue during the last quarter and its stock price at an all-time high, Starbucks is already banking on its digital strategy.
By Roberto Torres • July 26, 2019 -
Furniture retailer Aaron's found application nimbleness through centralization
By 2020, the retailer expects to finish a service-oriented architecture that assumes a centralized view of the customer and all transactions.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 25, 2019 -
Research indicates Teams' rise and Slack's fall while other players vie in the background
"Teams is Slack, so why buy Slack?" asked Thomas DelVecchio, founder and CEO of ETR.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 23, 2019 -
Microsoft Teams daily users surpass 13M, but don't count out Slack
At 10 million daily users, Slack is a vendor-neutral tool that makes integrations simple and vendor lock-in less of a concern.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 12, 2019 -
4 years of CIO Dive: All the trends we watched
Obsessive focus on digital transformation and next-generation technology is ubiquitous across sectors. And the CIO influence has grown.
By Naomi Eide • July 03, 2019 -
Cloud database management grows as on-prem 'Stockholm Syndrome' persists
Gartner expects the future of on-premise DBMS — IBM, Teradata, SAP HANA and Yellowbrick — to be "limited."
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 02, 2019 -
Microsoft leads SaaS market, but others grab a slice
Salesforce, Adobe, SAP and Oracle round out the top five SaaS vendors, though Salesforce had the lowest growth rate.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • July 01, 2019 -
Slack reports 'degraded service' a week after NYSE debut
The interruption has caused issues with messaging, posts, calls, apps/integrations, connections, link previews, notifications, search and organization administration.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • June 28, 2019 -
A clear winner in Slack's war against email? There isn't one
A chorus of companies have given email a timeline. But because of the cockroach nature of it, deadlines pass, and email is still alive and well.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • June 25, 2019 -
Amazon granted patent for 'surveillance as a service' tech
The technology would allow Amazon to survey geofenced areas using drones to monitor homeowners' property.
By Jason Plautz • June 25, 2019 -
Cybersecurity issues bog down half of M&A deals
Seven in 10 decision makers say data breaches are an immediate deal-breaker when evaluating mergers or acquisitions.
By Roberto Torres • June 24, 2019 -
It doesn't matter that Microsoft banned employees from using Slack, says analyst
Enterprises have long had issues with employees self-remedying workplace productivity woes with the use of AOL, Yahoo and MSN instant messenger.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • June 24, 2019 -
IBM still sees value in Hadoop-based technologies
Cloudera and Big Blue laid out plans for a joint go-to-market strategy aimed at the Hadoop market.
By Roberto Torres • June 21, 2019 -
Slack, now a public company, goes after the long-term play
On Thursday, Slack's shares closed at $38.62, a 48.5% jump above its reference price of $26. The sizeable pop puts Slack's market cap at $19 billion.
By Roberto Torres • June 20, 2019
