Author Archives: Ron Miller

Smartsheet acquires Slope to help creatives collaborate

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Smartsheet, the project management and collaboration tool that went public last April, announced the acquisition of Seattle-based TernPro, Inc., makers of Slope, a collaboration tool designed for sharing creative assets. The companies did not share the acquisition price. Bringing Slope into the fold will enable Smartsheet users to share assets like video and photos natively […] Continue reading Smartsheet acquires Slope to help creatives collaborate→

Salesforce Commerce Cloud updates keep us shopping with AI-fueled APIs

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As people increasingly use their mobile phones and other devices to shop, it has become imperative for vendors to improve the shopping experience, making it as simple as possible, given the small footprint. One way to do that is using artificial intelligence. Today, Salesforce announced some AI-enhanced APIs designed to keep us engaged as shoppers. […] Continue reading Salesforce Commerce Cloud updates keep us shopping with AI-fueled APIs→

OneLogin snares $100M investment to expand identity solution into new markets

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OneLogin is not a young startup by any means. The identity access management company was founded in 2009 and has watched while companies like Ping Identity, Duo Security and Okta had tidy exits. But as CEOs are fond of pointing out, the total addressable market is large and where investors see a chance, they take […] Continue reading OneLogin snares $100M investment to expand identity solution into new markets→

New Synergy Research report finds enterprise data center market is strong for now

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Conventional wisdom would suggest that in 2019, the public cloud dominates and enterprise data centers are becoming an anachronism of a bygone era, but new data from Synergy Research finds that the enterprise data center market had a growth spurt last year. In fact, Synergy reported that overall spending in enterprise infrastructure, which includes elements […] Continue reading New Synergy Research report finds enterprise data center market is strong for now→

Microsoft’s latest Teams features take aim at shift workers

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Collaboration tools tend to be geared towards workers who are sitting at a desk for much of the day, but there are plenty of shift workers, also known as first line workers, who rarely use a computer, but still need to communicate with one another and management. Microsoft released several new features today aimed at […] Continue reading Microsoft’s latest Teams features take aim at shift workers→

Amazon reportedly acquired Israeli disaster recovery service CloudEndure for around $200M

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Amazon has reportedly acquired Israeli disaster recovery startup CloudEndure. Neither company has responded to our request for confirmation, but we have heard from multiple sources that the deal has happened. While some outlets have been reporting the deal was worth $250 million, we are hearing it’s closer to $200 million. The company provides disaster recovery for cloud […] Continue reading Amazon reportedly acquired Israeli disaster recovery service CloudEndure for around $200M→

How Trulia began paying down its technical debt

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As every software company knows, over time as code ages and workarounds build on work-arounds, the code base becomes bloated. It becomes ever more difficult to get around the technical debt that you’ve built up over time. It’s really impossible to avoid this phenomenon, but at some point, companies realize that the debt is so […] Continue reading How Trulia began paying down its technical debt→

Salesforce keeps rolling with another banner year in 2018

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The good times kept on rolling this year for Salesforce with all of the requisite ingredients of a highly successful cloud company — the steady revenue growth, the expanding product set and the splashy acquisitions. The company also opened the doors of its shiny new headquarters, Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, a testament to its […] Continue reading Salesforce keeps rolling with another banner year in 2018→

These ten enterprise M&A deals totaled over $87 billion this year

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M&A activity was brisk in the enterprise market this year with 10 high-profile deals totaling almost $88 billion. Companies were opening up their wallets and pouring money into mega acquisitions. It’s worth noting that the $88 billion figure doesn’t include Dell paying investors over $23 billion for VMware tracking stock to take the company public […] Continue reading These ten enterprise M&A deals totaled over $87 billion this year→

Box releases Skills, which lets developers apply AI and machine learning to Box content

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When you have as much data under management as Box does, you have the key ingredient for artificial intelligence and machine learning, which feeds on copious amounts of data. Box is giving developers access to this data, while letting them choose the AI and machine learning algorithms they want to use. Today, the company announced […] Continue reading Box releases Skills, which lets developers apply AI and machine learning to Box content→