The driver in a car accident takes a picture of the damaged vehicle and sends it to an insurer for a coverage quote on the spot. A hat retailer uses data analytics to tweak its marketing formula and more than 60 percent of recipients suddenly open their messages in an email campaign. A hotel guest ...

With more than 71 million cloud users and over 170 products, Infor Inc. has focused on delivering a broad suite of business applications via software as a service. Its strong SaaS sales growth has propelled it from being a legacy on-premises software vendor to one that is generating significant revenue from cloud-based subscriptions. “Seventy percent of our new ...

Last October, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella surprised analysts on an earnings conference call with a declaration that his company’s future strength would depend on enterprise movement to multicloud. Nearly a year later, that statement gained more credence based on evidence from this week’s Microsoft Ignite gathering in Orlando, Florida. Microsoft’s focus on a broad ...

One company is the world’s largest hospitality conglomerate, opening a new hotel every 14 hours. The other enterprise is the fastest-growing of the largest U.S. software companies. Together, the two firms want to connect with customers in new ways using technology from a diverse ecosystem that includes Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. Marriott International Inc. and ...

As Microsoft Corp. evolves its enterprise-ready technology, it is also building an ecosystem of companies looking to push the envelope in key, strategic areas. One of those ecosystem partners, Presidio Inc., has developed a solution for companies who have invested in cloud or subscription-based services but lack visibility into full usage and consumption. The solution is Presidio ...

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (pictured) got the collaborative party started at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida, on Monday with the news that his company would form an Open Data Initiative in partnership with Adobe Systems Inc. and SAP. The initiative is designed to facilitate an easier exchange of data between the three companies’ various ...

When Rubrik Inc. acquired Datos IO Inc. in February, both companies viewed the partnership as an opportunity to expand into enterprise markets with cloud-native applications and support for NoSQL database management. With the release of Rubrik’s Datos IO 3.0 this month, additional new features servicing multiple platforms demonstrate a strategy to capture significant market share in the ...

Midway through the Lincoln Network’s Reboot 2018 conference in San Francisco on Friday, one speaker asked approximately 200 attendees a simple question: How many watched the U.S. Senate hearings on Facebook in April? Virtually everyone in the room raised a hand. The next question: How many felt legislators understood how the technology industry worked? No ...

It’s really hard to overestimate the power of small, game-animated, yellow furry bodies. Since it burst into the world 22 years ago, Pokémon continues to roll merrily along, and the craze that accompanied its release of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go in 2016 made it the highest grossing mobile application in the United States. How big was ...

After becoming the chief data officer for IBM Analytics in 2016, Seth Dobrin (pictured, left) hit the road and talked with as many customers as he could schedule. What he learned was that IBM Corp.’s clients needed help in the data science arena. “We found a consistent theme with our clients,” Dobrin said. “They needed ...