The Rise of Big Data Apps And The Fall of SaaS
Editor’s note: This guest column is from Raj De Datta, the CEO and co-founder of BloomReach. Follow @BloomReachInc on
Read More →"Twitter for Machines" Company Nodeable Launches Private Beta
Nodeable is a new company that just launched a private beta. It’s already generating a lot of buzz, and throws around terms like big data, social platform and “post-cloud.” RedMonk co-founder and analyst Stephen O’Grady called it “Twitter for machines…
Read More →Assistly Goes Freemium
Assistly, a social CRM and help desk software-as-a-service, announced version 2.0 of its product this week, including a new feemium pricing model. Your first Assistly user is now free, with no limitations. It costs $1 an hour for additional part-time …
Read More →ProspectVisual, Another Social Graph Integrator for the Enterprise
IntellectSpace announced this week ProspectVisual, another tool that can help integrate your social graph with your existing contact and customer relationship managers.
The service doesn’t come cheaply: pricing starts at $2500 per seat per year, alth…
Read More →Social CRM Service Nimble Now Available in Google Apps
Nimble, the social CRM startup founded by Jon Ferrara (creator of Goldmine, one of the first CRM systems), has made its SaaS available through the Google Apps Marketplace. We previously profiled Nimble as a cloud startup to watch and took a deeper lo…
Read More →Adobe Acquires EchoSign to Add Digital Signatures to Its Document Empire
Today EchoSign, a company that provides technology for electronic signatures, announced that it has been acquired by Adobe. EchoSign provides end-to-end solutions for handling the electronic signing of digital documents. According to the announcement:…
Read More →Microsoft Project and Visio Will Come to Office 365
Microsoft Office 365, the cloud-based service from Microsoft (read our take on it here), already supports Outlook/Exchange, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Lync. We’ve reported that BlackBerry Enterprise Server is coming to 365 as well. What e…
Read More →New Big Data Search Engine Combines CouchDB and Lucene
Cloudant will announce today a new product that brings Apache Lucene’s search capabilities to BigCouch, Cloudant’s version of Apache CouchDB. Typically, to search BigCouch or CouchDB you need to write map-reduce queries in JavaScript. Cloudant Search …
Read More →How to Aggregate Your Facebook and LinkedIn Contacts
Open-Xchange began its life as a hosted email service but has since evolved with a twist: its engineers have figured out a relatively simple process to extract your contacts from Facebook and LinkedIn. It is based on the SaaS pay hosted service, but th…
Read More →StillSecure Unveils SaaS-based Network Penetration Testing Services
Security vendor StillSecure has announced a new cloud security service for network penetration testing this week. This complements their existing panoply of cloud-based services including including firewall, IDS/IPS, VPN, e-mail security, multi-factor …
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