David Needle

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Based in Silicon Valley, veteran technology reporter David Needle covers mobile, bi g data, and social media among other topics. He was formerly News Editor at Infoworld, Editor of Computer Currents and TabTimes and West Coast Bureau Chief for both InformationWeek and Internet.com.

LogMeIn Shortens GoToMeeting Name, Adds New UCC Apps

Moving aggressively in the unified communications and collaboration (UCC) space, LogMeIn has made GoTo the new brand for its UCC portfolio, which includes its popular GoToMeeting online meeting service. On March 13, it also introduced GoToConnect and a new conference room solution, GoToRoom. “Traditionally the talk has been about individual products, an audio tool, a video tool […]

C3 Unwraps Low Code/No Code Enterprise AI Development Environment

Redwood City, Calif.-based enterprise software provider C3—formerly known as C3 IoT—has released a new developer platform that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate digital transformation in the enterprise. The C3 Integrated Development Studio is a complete low code/no code environment designed to help developers build scalable, AI applications that can draw data from disparate systems to […]

myTrailhead Extends Salesforce Learning Platform to New Skills

Trailhead, the online learning platform developed by Salesforce, can now be personalized by companies that want to use it to offer their own courses for onboarding new employees and other skills. myTrailhead offers the same features as Trailhead—online learning that includes videos, presentations and mini-certifications—with the ability for companies to use their own custom content […]

Surprise: Facebook Has Over 2 Million Paid Enterprise Workspace Users

SAN FRANCISCO—Despite privacy concerns and other controversies related to its consumer social network, Facebook has gained a significant toehold in the enterprise for Workplace, a secure collaboration and messaging platform that operates separately from the consumer version. Facebook only started charging for Workplace 16 months ago, following its formal launch in 2016. In the past […]

Beyond CRM? Altify Touts CRO as Next Big Enterprise Aspiration

Salesforce partner Altify is promoting its new Spring ’19 release as focused on the main thing companies need to be successful—revenue. Altify differentiates itself from other selling tools and platforms by focusing on Customer Revenue Optimization. While the Salesforce platform has many tools to help its customers find prospects, cross-sell, upsell and close deals, Altify […]

Pinpoint’s Advanced Analytics Measures Software Engineering Efficiency

How do you measure the performance of software engineering projects? Pinpoint says it has the answer with what it bills as the world’s first advanced analytics platform for software engineering. “Today the way companies are measuring their engineering efforts is by gut feeling and a lot of wasted time in meetings,” Nolan Wright, chief product […]

Guide to LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Salesforce

A new release of LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator sports several features designed to help companies better find and manage their sales prospects. LinkedIn releases an update to Navigator every quarter with a theme that describes the key features. “This time the theme is that selling is a team sport,” Doug Camplejohn, sales solutions head of product […]

New Version of Adobe Experience Cloud Streamlines Content Delivery

The latest version of Adobe Experience Manager, released Feb. 13, leverages Sensei, the company’s artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, to better manage and automate the delivery of personalized web content. Adobe unwrapped its cloud-based marketing platform, the Adobe Experience Cloud, two years ago. Adobe also announced the general availability of Adobe Asset Link (pictured), […]

Cogitai Unwraps ‘Self-Learning’ AI Platform for Business

Cogitai has released Continua, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) artificial intelligence platform that may herald a new opportunity for businesses to create self-learning AI systems that require far less training and human involvement than systems do today. “We’re focused on an entirely different kind of AI that up to this point hasn’t been available commercially,” Mark […]

Salesforce Boosts Datorama Analytics

Salesforce didn’t waste much time building out Datorama, the AI-powered analytics platform it acquired in July 2018 that is now part of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. On Jan. 23, the CRM giant announced a major update to Datorama, including more connectors to a variety of data sources to give enterprises a more comprehensive view and […]