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Microsoft and HP Show Off the Fruits of Their Partnership
About a year ago, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft announced a three-year, $250 million deal to team up around cloud computing. It was a strange announcement chock-full of buzzwords. They said they would...
View ArticleHewlett-Packard to Acquire Data Analytics Firm Vertica
Hewlett-Packard said today it had reached an agreement to acquire Vertica, a privately held, real-time analytics platform company based in Billerica, Mass. HP said Vertica will enhance its capabilities...
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InsideView, an Intelligence Dashboard for Salespeople, Raises $12 Million
When you’re gathering information on a potential sales prospect, there’s an awful lot of places to look. A decent Google search only gets you part of the way there. You can look for mentions in the...
View ArticleBusiness Schools Plan Leap Into Data
Faced with an increasing stream of data from the Web and other electronic sources, many companies are seeking managers who can make sense of the numbers through the growing practice of data analytics,...
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GoodData Lands $15 Million in Funding From Andreessen Horowitz
There’s lots of buzz these days around business intelligence and dashboards. With so many business applications offering access to APIs, it’s becoming ever easier to grab the data from applications...
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Big Data Start-Up Platfora Lands $5.7 Million From Andreessen Horowitz
We hear a lot these days about big data, which is kind of a code for the notion that nestled within all the seemingly useless information that a business generates in the course of its normal...
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Tidemark Comes Out of Stealth With Funding from Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz
It has been a little more than a year since word went around that Andreessen Horowitz had invested $6.3 million in a mysterious stealth start-up called Proferi. Today that company is coming out of...
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Birst Is Bursting Out All Over, With $26 Million in Funding From Sequoia
Remember Birst? The first two letters of its name stand for Business Intelligence, and when I last looked in on this start-up, it had just announced a Business Intelligence appliance. Today, Birst will...
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Start-Up Domo Goes 100 Percent More Social Starting Today
When I last looked in on Domo Technologies, the Utah-based business intelligence start-up run by Omniture founder Josh James, it had just raised a $20 million round of funding led by Institutional...
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Enterprise Apps Worth $120 Billion This Year, Gartner Reckons
Spending by companies on enterprise software applications will amount to more than $120 billion, according to a forecast by the market research firm Gartner, which amounts to growth of about 4 percent...
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A Dozen Questions for Oracle President Mark Hurd
Not everyone fully understands what the software giant Oracle does, but there’s no mistaking the fact that whatever it is, it’s doing it pretty well. Earlier this month, the company surprised analysts...
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Big-Data Start-Up GoodData Lands $25 Million Series C Led by Tenaya Capital
There are an awful lot of start-ups that claim to want to help companies find useful meaning in the deluge of data they are producing, and there’s an awful lot of money going to those start-ups. One...
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Birst Enables Roll-Your-Own Business Intelligence
Birst, the business intelligence start-up that I first wrote about last fall, is back today with an interesting new capability that combines data that resides in the cloud or on-premise into a single...
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GoodData Promises Business Intelligence That Really Makes Money
Lots of companies these days talk about “big data.” The prevailing theory is that, with the right kind of intelligent analysis, there is embedded within the ebb and flow of a company’s daily operations...
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Josh James Hires Old Omniture Buddy Harrington as Domo President
Domo, the business intelligence start-up helmed by Josh James, the former CEO of Omniture, has tapped James’s old friend and former Omniture president Chris Harrington to be its president. The pair ran...
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Trifacta Aims to Make Big Data Useful, Lands $4.3 Million From Accel Partners
We hear a lot about big data these days. It’s the IT industry catch phrase of the moment, and describes the notion of capturing and analyzing data from many quarters in order to find patterns and other...
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DataGravity Lands $30 Million From Andreessen Horowitz; Levine Joins Board
For all the press it gets as the next business panacea, Big Data is hard. You can collect and analyze tons of data, but before companies can get anything useful out of it, generally speaking, it’s not...
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New Funding Puts Domo's Value at $310 Million
A few more details have come to light about the $60 million Series B round of venture capital funding announced yesterday by the business intelligence startup Domo led by GGV Capital, Greylock Partners...
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Evolv, Using Big Data to Make Hourly Workers More Profitable, Lands $15 Million
How productive are your employees? In a world where large companies are always looking for ways to keep costs under control and boost what flows to the top and bottom lines of a P&L statement, it’s...
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SAP Accused of Inflating HANA Growth Numbers
How big is SAP’s newish HANA hardware appliance business? If you take the German software giant’s word for it, it’s a young but fast-growing line. But at least one analyst isn’t buying it. In a...
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Actian to Acquire Big-Data Startup ParAccel
Actian, a privately held player in the big data and business analytics software space that’s lately been known for making acquisitions, is about to close another. Later today, the company will announce...
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GoodData Raises $22 Million From Brazil's TOTVS Ventures
Business intelligence startup GoodData just announced that it had landed a $22 million Series D round of funding from TOTVS Ventures, the investment arm of TOTVS, the Brazil-based enterprise software...
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Birst Raises $38 Million in Series E Led by Sequoia Capital
Birst, the cloud-based business-intelligence firm that isn’t always in the cloud, announced today that it has raised $38 million in funding, in a Series E led by Sequoia Capital. The investment...
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Domo CEO Josh James Is Keeping Quiet About His Company. Deal With It.
After raising $125 million in venture capital funding in two rounds, at a valuation of more than $300 million, you’d think that CEO Josh James would want to start talking about how the company is...
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Greylock Leads $12 Million Round for Big-Data Startup Trifacta
For all its hype as a potential panacea for companies everywhere, Big Data isn’t necessarily useful data. All the analysis in the world isn’t helpful if, in the end, you can’t figure out what your data...
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