Workday, which provides software for human resources and financial planning, has selected bankers for an IPO filing in July: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan will underwrite the offering.
Mobile Enterprise
11 May 2012
Citrix will combine the newly-acquired Virtual Computer technology with XenClient to create the new Citrix XenClient Enterprise edition.
It went from being a consulting company hiring data scientists to develop reco-algorithms for a contest, to an advanced analytics provider about to announce a partnership with SAP/HANA.
That’s because running a cloud business is completely opposite to running a traditional enterprise software business.
That’s a pretty big shift from Dropbox’s traditional strategy – having a folder on your desktop that you can drop stuff into that syncs to a remote server.
10 May 2012
Symantec laid out a road map that includes building up its cloud-based O3 platform and stretching further into both the mobile and cloud computing space.
Two companies known for cloud-based mobile solutions are joining forces to create an integrated network access control and mobile device management solution.
09 May 2012
Worldwide security software revenue hit $17.7bn in 2011, a 7.5% increase from 2010 revenue of $16.4bn, the top 5 companies accounting for 43.6% of the revenue.
The software industry is going through the kind of perfect storm that only happens once ever 30 years. In the next 5 years, the next crop of industry giants and new technologies will arise.
07 May 2012
Here are a few suggestions on addressing related issues like liability, information risk and inadequate provision for control of business data on mobile devices.