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Is it time to invest in IoT?
I published my first book, The End of Software, in 2004. At the time, I was president of Oracle On Demand, which served as a starting point for Oracle’s billion-dollar cloud business. In the book I discussed the fundamental economic reasons software should be delivered as a service. It’s 12 years later. Some have said that enterprise software is a mature business; CEM, ERP, HR… Read More
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Quip Gets $30M From Greylock And Benchmark To Grow Its Mobile-First Word Processing App
Some big news today for Quip, the mobile-first word processing and collaboration app that competes with the likes of Google Docs. The eponymous startup behind the service has raised $30 million in funding — a Series B round led by Greylock with participation from Benchmark. Along with the funding, Quip is announcing some key people joining its team. Patrick Moran — who had been… Read More
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It’s Time To Embrace, Not Fear, Shadow IT
At this very moment, the IT department at a typical enterprise is staring at a mind-numbing list of IT project requests from employees and business units — ranging from building a custom mobile app for warehouse operations to integrating Salesforce.com with back-end office systems. To manage this endless to-do list, the IT department logically arranges requests by how significantly… Read More
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Is Enterprise Hyper Growth The New Normal?
The enterprise cloud has entered a new era of hyper growth thanks to a combination of dramatically expanded global markets, access to unprecedented later-stage private growth capital and the ability to scale sales organizations with remote talent. The Next Wave Of Enterprise Software Powered By Machine Learning
Enterprise software is about to undergo radical transformation — a substantial change that will make the shift to software as a service (SaaS) look like a simple facelift. This transformation is being powered by machine learning. Acceleprise Accelerator Aims $3.5M Fund At Early Stage Enterprise Apps
Acceleprise Ventures, a San Francisco-based incubator anchored by investor Sean Glass, announced a new $3.5 million fund with a pronounced enterprise app bent. It also announced 10 newly funded companies.
The company works with 8-12 pre-seed B2B companies per round to help them grow from acquiring their first customers “to building scalable and repeatable processes that can fuel… Read More
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Box Has Always Been About Reshaping Enterprise Software
One of Box’s earliest marketing stunts was a series of billboards on California’s Route 101 in which it made no bones about going after enterprise content management (ECM) big shot, Microsoft SharePoint. While many would like to pigeonhole Box as storage or sync and share, Box has always had other ideas.
From the earliest days in its transition from a consumer to enterprise… Read More
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Azuqua Raises $5M Series A Round For Its IFTTT-Like Cloud Connectivity Platform
Services like IFTTT and Zapier make it easy to connect various web services in novel ways to automate repetitive tasks that would otherwise take a lot of copying and pasting. Seattle-based Azuqua, which is announcing a $5 million Series A round from Ignition Partners today, offers a somewhat similar service, but with a focus on enterprise business processes. Right now Azuqua allows you to… Read More
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