Not long ago, Alison Biggan saw a post on Twitter marking the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The tweet pointed out how, as digital as the world already was at that time, Snapchat, the iPad, and Instagram still hadn’t emerged. Instead of marveling at all the innovation […]
SAP used the TechEd 2018 conference to introduce a new version of its Data Hub that will bring together different kinds of business applications and information no matter where it sits so organizations can improve the way they do things like upsell, cross-sell and conduct account-based marketing campaigns. Speaking to customers and partners in Las […]
Digital transformation is creating a sea of ‘operational silos’ where companies are struggling to keep an eye on all the local and cloud-based IT systems that run their business, according to a European firm called Centreon that announced its expansion into North America on Wednesday. Based in Paris, Centreon offers an open source event monitoring […]
CDW and Apple are expanding their efforts to ease the deployment Mac- and iOS-based technology products into the enterprise by bringing the Apple at Work program to Canada, following its introduction in the U.S. earlier this year. Apple at Work is part of a larger initiative by the iPhone maker to demonstrate the security, ease […]
The popularity of Siri and Alexa among consumers may be inspiring more businesses to consider launching a voice technology initiative, but 33 per cent admit they have yet to use it on the job themselves, according to research from Globant. According to the IT firm’s 2018 Voice-Activated Technology Business Guide, which was based on a […]
The Royal Bank of Canada will be starting with a focus on B2B startups with an accelerator program called RBC Reach that will offer $100,000 in funding to entrepreneurs from around the world. RBC Reach, which is accepting applications until the end of the month, is being launched in partnership with Highline BETA, a company […]
His suit is immaculate and his delivery is pitch-perfect, but beyond that, Clive Owen is surrounded by problems in his latest TV commercial for software giant SAP. The star of Croupier, Closer and many other films spends his most recent outing for the enterprise application vendor’s marketing campaign walking through a litany of business and […]
What comes first to your mind when you think about a job description for your new team member? I bet it is a list of technologies: 5+ years of experience in PHP, system architecture, web-servers – Apache, Nginx, etc. Any soft skills? Let’s tell the truth, they are usually copied from the other vacancies. Hardly […]
Employers may be encouraging staff to develop mindfulness on an individual level, but a startup called Kudos is offering a more communal approach with software to let peers recognize each other’s accomplishments and drive employee engagement. Kudos offers an application where employees, managers and business leaders can send thank-you notifications, celebrate notable events with awards, […]
For Jason Tafler, the road to mindfulness began with a near-death experience, but the company he created afterwards, Unyte, is breathing new life into meditation practice with digital technology and even virtual reality experiences. Using a biofeedback device known as the iom2 developed through the acquisition of a technology firm called Wild Divine, Unyte monitors an […]
Our day starts with a sunrise and ends with sunset, which means the first thing that we saw in the morning was the sun, and the last thing that we saw was the moon. But with the rise of smartphones and tablets, the first thing that we see in the morning today is most likely […]
The average sales and marketing exec may not have any idea how much of the applications they use or provide to customers were developed using code from Github — or even what Github is — but Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of the service on Monday may soon change that. Self-described as “the world’s leading software […]
If Elmo of Sesame Street were to gain about 700 pounds and lose all power of speech, he might resemble the creature HPE is using to market its OneView product in its latest TV commercial. “Tame The IT Monster Withe HPE OneView” portrays a large enterprise besieged by a giant, furry red creature who turns […]
VMware’s CMO Robin Matlock is working on a lot of things to change the way the cloud and virtualization software maker is seen within the enterprise, but one of her most disruptive moves might be to reimagine how her marketing organization’s work is evaluated by the rest of the company. Last year Matlock and her […]
Zoho is getting ready to release TV ads in the U.S. and Canada as part of a broader marketing effort to boost adoption of its Amazon Prime-style approach to licensing a variety of business applications. Besides the TV spots, Zoho has been holding a series of events for customers and prospects that tout the integrated […]
As a means to foster innovation by giving developers and other smart people a creative challenge, there has arguably been nothing as popular as a hackathon — in fact, research suggests they may almost have become too popular. In its most recent Developer Marketing survey report, Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Evans Data showed a 13 per […]
It’s already one of most talked-about startups innovating in workplace productivity and collaboration, but Slack’s Michael Lopp is working hard to respond to enterprise decision-makers who say they just can’t let go of traditional e-mail. Though it is based in San Francisco, the firm’s vice-president of engineering has been making a series of in-person appearances […]
Fision may soon build upon its track record of putting marketing and sales teams on the same page by obtaining a provisional patent for using blockchain to exchange critical business information. Based in Minneapolis, Fision Corp. offers a cloud-based sales enablement tool that manages digital assets like marketing materials as they are distributed to sales […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), Blockchain, and more are here to help B2B owners grow their businesses. But, if you are not technologically-savvy, these new advances may make you nervous. Well, instead of running away, it’s important to learn how these new technologies work and ways to use them to grow your business. To […]
Lots of teams come to work and Slack off. Other come for the Hangouts. Google has never quite managed to replicate its search engine success in social media, despite years of effort around Google Plus. As it continues to put more attention on business users with its G-Suite of Docs, Calendar and other tools, the recent addition […]
