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SAP and Marketo surged into the leaderboard and joined returnees Adobe, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle and SAS in Gartner's new report on multichannel campaign management software vendors.
Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner released its yearly Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Campaign Management this week. SAP was a challenger last year. Marketo shared the
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Forrester analyst Kate Leggett doesn't hold back in her latest assessment of enterprise-grade customer relationship management (CRM) suites.
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Oracle Corp. announced today it signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, the cloud-based internet performance and DNS provider.
The news comes one month after Manchester, N.H.-based Dyn reported a major Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that crippled major websites including Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify and even its own.
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Twitter is cutting 9 percent of its staff and its video app, Vine.
The San Francisco social media company released its third-quarter earnings yesterday.
In a letter to shareholders (PDF), Twitter said it will cut 9 percent of its global workforce — about 350 positions.
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Gartner trimmed OpenText, SDL and HP from the leader's quadrant in its latest industry report on web content management (WCM).
Six other vendors — Sitecore, Adobe, Acquia, EPiServer, IBM and Oracle retained their spots on the leaderboard in the Stamford, Conn.
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Customer experience software provider MaritzCX today released a new framework that opens its APIs and connects its users to some of the biggest enterprise marketing and sales platform players.
The Lehi, Utah-based company's CXFuel framework is designed to provide a flexible architecture and a developer portal for users to access their
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SAN FRANCISCO — If the meek really are to inherit the Earth, then there won’t be much real estate for Oracle’s Larry Ellison.
The chief technology officer’s keynotes at the company’s annual user conference were filled with brash predictions about Oracle dominance in the cloud market.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Most of the keynote addresses and breakout sessions at Oracle's OpenWorld last week were devoted to the company’s far-flung suite of cloud and on-premises applications and services while providing technical assistance to developers.
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Lehi, Utah-based MaritzCX, a customer experience software provider, has hired a former Oracle executive as VP of business developments and partnerships to help it grow its partner ecosystem.
JD Jeppson, who served as technology sales director for Oracle as well as EVP of sales for Allegiance Software, will work with partners and channels
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SAN FRANCISCO — It’s easy for a company’s software stack to end up a cluttered mess of on-premises and cloud storage solutions from multiple providers. But Oracle executives claim they have the answer.
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SAN FRANCISCO — One of the most high-profile spots you’ll find the Oracle logo is on the sailing vessels that compete in the America’s Cup.
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SAN FRANCISCO — There was nothing subtle about Oracle CTO Larry Ellison’s message during his mid-week keynote at OpenWorld, the company's annual user conference here: He had nothing nice to say about Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle is trying to convince attendees at its annual user conference here this week that its intelligent cloud applications are the keys to a world of machine intelligence, where software picks up on hints and nuances from user patterns in order to get smarter over time.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle CEO Mark Hurd had an untraditional setup for his Monday morning keynote at Oracle OpenWorld. The desk and chair arrangement on stage at the Moscone Center would look more at home on a late night talk show than at a technology conference.
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