1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Phitch

By guest author Praveen Kumar ePhiphony Incorporated develops and publishes the inventory investment optimization solution suite Phitch, which provides software add-ons to existing accounting enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting packages that make it easier to optimize inventory. Phitch is designed to boost the performance of ERP platforms by determining inventory alerts, reorder points, safety stocks, and order

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Trend Radar 2008: SaaS in the Enterprise

A Gartner report from August 2007 predicted that SaaS adoption in the Enterprise will be rising at a 22% CAGR through 2011. Worldwide total software revenue for software as a service (SaaS) within the enterprise software markets is projected to surpass $5.1 billion in 2007, a 21 percent increase from 2006 revenue ($4.2 billion), according

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Informatica: Acquisition Target?

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading data integration enterprise that serves over 2,850 companies worldwide for their end-to-end data integration needs. The various enterprise-wide data integration and data quality solutions that its products support encompass a vast range including data consolidation, data synchronization, data governance, and data warehousing. INFA’s data quality products also support

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Business Objects Looks Great

Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ), a French company that provides business intelligence (BI) to enterprises, is riding high on superlative second quarter performance announced on July 25. All its 3 major revenue lines – licensed software (Q2/07 revenue $149 million, up 21% year-over-year), maintenance ($152 million, +23% y-o-y) and global services ($62 million, +29% y-o-y) –

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 3)

SM. Where did you get the idea for LucidEra? What is your domain experience in the Enterprise 3.0 business? KR: The idea developed in two stages. First, when I ran my Business Intelligence consulting company many years, it became obvious that while Business Intelligence solutions were common in large enterprises, they were rare in small

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SME ERP: Netsuite + (eBAY AND AdSense)

Recently, I pointed out that there are 20 Million businesses in the US that don’t have any employee. These include ecommerce businesses that thrive on eBAY and small publishing businesses that leverage Google AdSense. I have also discussed the SaaS trend at length, and covered the NetSuite IPO that is coming. Netsuite has recently done

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Larry can buy his protege next

Larry Ellison could convince Marc Benioff next, for after all, he is Marc’s Guru.