Social productivity startup Spigit, which creates idea and innovation software, has launched an integration with Microsoft SharePoint, letting enterprises place this data in the cloud, behind the firewall. Spigit's products help businesses and teams contribute ideas, offer feedback and evaluate concepts to streamline idea generation and promote innovation. Spigit for SharePoint includes a dashboard that provides real-time updates on activity, hot topics and employee contributions within a business, an advanced analytics engine that identifies the best ideas among all contributions and a customizable workflow systems to manage ideation. Full story...
Business software giant SAP was rocked by a change of guard this week as CEO Leo Apotheker resigned on Sunday.
On the heels of the EU's approval of Oracle's $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, the tech giant has opened up the purse strings to acquire application management software provider AmberPoint.
Rumors of the death of Flash are greatly exaggerated, says Jeremy Allaire in a TechCrunch guest post.
Jonathan Schwartz deserves better. Sure, he’s got a rich payout from his years at Sun. Sure, he’s leaving because Ellison doesn’t need anybody explaining why the cloud is a good thing.
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IBM has acquired Chicago-based software firm Initiate Systems. Initiate helps healthcare providers and other government organizations manage and organize data across various sources.
2009 was a banner year for Salesforce.com. The enterprise cloud computing company made significant enhancements to its product lineup, reported overall strong earnings, and even launched their own take on realtime enterprise social networking and collaboration, Chatter.
Adobe's Flash technology has been taking a beating lately. Apple still won't support it on its upcoming iPad or its iPhone.
One casualty of Oracle's $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, which was recently approved by the European Commission, is the closure of Project Kenai.
Stealth startup Makara is launching publicly tonight with its cloud-based application deployment and management platform.