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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 -
MapR continues search for 'strategic transaction' past lifeline deadline
Embattled by competition from cloud service providers, the company missed its July 3 deadline to finalize a key transaction.
By Roberto Torres • UPDATED: July 8, 2019 at 9:36 a.m. -
Gartner: ERPs have dated reputation to overcome in cloud era
If businesses behave with ERP the way they did 20 years ago, they will continue to get the same value.
By Naomi Eide • June 12, 2019 -
Salesforce to acquire Tableau in a $15.7B all-stock deal
As Salesforce tries to make bold moves in the data analytics space, it must address the overlap with its existing solution.
By Roberto Torres • June 10, 2019 -
Analysts: Trump tariffs could isolate, shrink US tech market
From 2017 to 2018, tariffs paid on tech product imports from China increased fivefold. As the government prepares additional tariff tranches, analysts are wary of long-term impact.
By Roberto Torres • May 29, 2019 -
Collaboration software filling gap between frontline reality, corporate expectations
Less than one-quarter of employees said their ideas contribute to decisions made by their bosses, according to a Workplace by Facebook survey.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 28, 2019 -
CarMax CIO leads effort to transform the used car market
One innovation following a shift to a product-centric approach was the use of mobile devices — instead of paper on a clipboard — for appraising the value of a car for trade-in.
By Mitch Betts • May 20, 2019 -
All about 'Bertie': Overhauling CMS technology at Forbes
The publisher used historical data to weave augmented intelligence into its publishing platform. "We think of it as a bionic suit for our writers," Forbes CDO Salah Zalatimo said.
By Naomi Eide • May 16, 2019 -
Fixing the paper problem at Liberty Mutual Investments
Relying on the 2010 version of SharePoint document management system left departments siloed and unable to efficiently collaborate and share documents.
By Naomi Eide • May 15, 2019 -
PaaS market, impossible to win, will double in size
There is no clear winner of the PaaS market as most vendors are narrowing their focus on "a single fit-for-purpose" xPaaS offering, Gartner said.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 14, 2019
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