David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO—The term big data gets tossed around a lot these days, but it’s not always clear what it refers to. An executive with online travel giant Expedia gave a real-world example here, noting there are more than 65 million ways to travel from Los Angeles to New York. “It’s an infinite data problem, and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—HP plans to take the wraps off of several new notebooks at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new notebooks are aimed at business customers, but sport high-end consumer fit and finish. “The theme of the day is that Millennial customers are the largest subset of business end users. They are […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—What a month December turned out to be for Box, the cloud computing content-management company that continues to gain new enterprise clients and recently inked partnership deals with IBM and Salesforce.com. In a wide-ranging interview with eWEEK at Box’s new headquarters here, CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie discussed how traditional, data center-focused IT […]

Box.com and Salesforce.com announced two products today designed to make it easier for Salesforce users to access files stored in the Box online file-sharing and content management system. With Salesforce Files Connect for Box, Salesforce users will be able to search, browse, access and share Box files using a computer or mobile device without leaving […]

Seeking to make it easier for Salesforce.com users to work with data from a variety of applications, both on- and off-premises, the cloud computing giant has unwrapped Salesforce Connect, an update to its Lightning Connect service. Salesforce is leveraging the trend toward open standards by supporting open API standards, such as OData (Open Data Protocol), […]

Get ready for the Salesforce economy? Microsoft Office is probably the most ubiquitous of office skills, but demand for workers skilled in how to use Salesforce applications is growing. Salesforce is already a “global economic engine” said research firm IDC, noting that the software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider and its ecosystem of customers and partners will create […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Thanks to the Internet and cloud technology, software companies have more customer purchase data than ever before. But extracting actionable insights from that data quickly or even in real time has been a challenge. Software analytics provider New Relic is gaining fans among software developers by making it easier to gain such insights. At […]

Remember that breath mint commercial—”It’s two, two mints in one.” The same concept is at play in the latest announcement from Salesforce.com, an integration of SalesforceIQ and the Desk.com customer support app. SalesforceIQ gives sales teams ready access to the latest information on existing customers and prospects, better preparing them for sales calls while Desk.com […]

HALF MOON BAY, Calif.—The need to move to modern computer technology including cloud computing to enable the transition to digital health care and medical records was a hot topic during a session here at the Constellation Research Connection Enterprise conference. While many new technologies offer ways for hospitals and other health care institutions to improve […]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF.—Signaling changes to come in the networking industry, Juniper Networks detailed where it sees the next areas of growth and how the company is positioned to take advantage of it. CEO Rami Rahim said customers want “choice and flexibility” when it comes to hardware and software, and the networking giant plans to offer […]