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Oh yes, more Oracle

Wait, more Oracle! Yesterday, Oracle released financial results for the fiscal year and today results for Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa. Good news for the big boys, bad news for their competitors: “Oracle Europe, Middle East & Africa Reports Strong Performance for the Fiscal Year 2006 as Total Revenues Increase by 10 Percent” read […]

Get ‘im, Bulldog!

Enterprise marketing management solutions provider the Unica Corporation today announced the deployment of Unica’s Affinium software by Bulldog Solutions. Affinium will be deployed during the second and third quarters of 2006 for delivery and measurement of Bulldog’s strategically targeted B2B marketing campaigns. Bulldog Solutions will employ Unica’s Affinium Suite in end-to-end marketing management, lead acquisition, […]

Oracle’s roast beef, yes sir

Speaking of Oracle (and aren’t we so often speaking of Oracle?), Oracle PR has announced that Arby’s, slinger of roast beef sandwiches, has selected the Oracle E-Business Suite for financial reporting, workforce management, new store construction and procurement. Arby’s is on a roll (tee hee) as of late, having recently acquired RTM, its largest franchisee. […]

Oracle tears Siebel away from IBM

All over the news first thing in the morning today was the big Siebel / IBM / Oracle brouhaha; of course, with names like this involved, who’s surprised at the prominence of this particular news bite? As is being reported everywhere, the Big Blue back-end powering Siebel’s CRM OnDemand hosted software service is “being ripped […]

The Sage six

Sage Software made an introduction today, presenting to the world Client 1, Endeavor Commerce, InaPlex and QGate as Sage CRM Solutions premiere technology partners. Premiere partners develop value-added technology solutions to integrate with Sage Software mid-market CRM products including Sage CRM, SageCRM.com and Sage CRM SalesLogix. Awarded the label were: Client 1 earned the title […]

Open for business in Fairfax County

Fairfax, Va.-based Fairfax County Federal Credit Union is pairing up with Open Solutions Inc., a provider of integrated enabling technologies for North American financial services providers, to implement Open Solutions’ “Complete Credit Union Solution” for its data processing needs. Together with the solution will be provided complementary applications such as CRM tool cView and ProfitVision. […]

Jasper counts to 15,000

Open source business intelligence solutions provider JasperSoft today reported the 15,000th download of Jasper Reports for SugarCRM, the first open source reporting engine for the SugarCRM Sugar Suite. Jasper Reports provides a library of preset reports that run with Sugar Suite, allowing the ability to generate customer interaction-based reports. JasperReports focuses on transactional reporting displayed […]

Lotsa money at Oracle

Oracle public relations somehow managed to wait until just past midnight EST to release their final earnings figures for fiscal year 2006. For the record, Oracle net income for the period through 31 May was US $3.4 billion, an increase of seventeen percent over the previous year. And in the fourth quarter alone, figures show […]

Partners to Partnerforce

In more salesforce.com-related news, the customer relationship management tool provider reminds of the imminent launch of Partnerforce, a service intended to assist companies in better interacting with business partners. The Partnerforce program is promised to allow employees share data with sales staff internal and external to their firm. The on-demand data service is touted as […]

Brainshark season

A tandem announcement today from Brainshark, Inc. and salesforce.com: Brainshark Express is now available for salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers can now deploy Brainshark Express within Salesforce implementation and with closed-loop reportage directly to Salesforce. Brainshark Express is integrated with the AppExchange on-demand platform. The shark can be checked out and test deployed from http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The […]