Mobile CRM startup Clari raises $20m to step up machine learning workSeries B funding will help mobile sales productivity company Clari develop its software and marketing operations.June 17, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
Windows XP: One year to go but is it already too late to move?With Microsoft’s cut-off date for support for Windows XP exactly 12 months away, the options are narrowing for the many organisations that have yet to carry out an OS upgrade. April 8, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
DataStax's 4.5 Cassandra fires up Apache Spark in-memory analyticsWith DataStax 4.5, the NoSQL company is offering fast analytics through Apache Spark as well as the option to merge Cassandra and Hadoop data.June 30, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
SAP plots link-up with Esri to add geo data to SAP HANAThe enterprise software giant says it's integrating Esri's spatial-data product with SAP HANA and BusinessObjects business-intelligence tools.July 9, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
MongoDB CTO: How our new WiredTiger storage engine will earn its stripesWith general availability of the next version of MongoDB looming as early as next month, CTO Eliot Horowitz believes it represents an important step for the open-source database.November 21, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
Developers or their bosses: Who really picks the database?Developers may have provided the initial impetus for the popularity of many databases, but some software providers now say that situation is changing.July 10, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
Software licensing: This man thinks it's time someone stood up for the end userSoftware licensing is often impenetrable and costly for the CIO who makes a mistake. Mark Flynn leads a new body that aims to redress the balance and fight the corner for end-user companies.July 28, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
Workday CEO: Cloud costs and future expansion plansAneel Bhusri, chairman, co-founder and co-CEO of Workday, spells out the real financial picture for SaaS vendors and the cloud ERP firm's future direction. June 28, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
MariaDB alpha taps into MySQL 5.6 to boost its own new featuresAs well as taking features from Oracle's MySQL 5.6 database, the latest alpha of the MariaDB branch now integrates with the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database management system.February 8, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software
Open source: Its true cost and where it's going awry by Monty WideniusPrincipal creator of MySQL Monty Widenius is concerned about the consequences of certain corporate attitudes towards open-source software.May 30, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Enterprise Software