David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO—At its Frontiers conference here on Sept. 6, Slack detailed improvements coming to its core messaging platform and how it’s being used by a variety of companies to improve collaboration within internal groups as well as external partners.  Among the features Slack said it plans to release either later this year or in 2019 […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Box made several partnership announcements it said will enhance its status as a neutral platform for enterprise content management. Executives from Apple, Google, ServiceNow and Slack spoke during the opening keynote here at the annual Boxworks conference on August 29. Other enterprise SaaS companies supporting the latest Box integration news included Microsoft, DocuSign and […]

LinkedIn has updated its Sales Navigator service with a number of new features, including one called Deals that’s designed to address what the company believes is a fundamental change in how deals and sales are made. “B2B selling is more complicated these days where you often have half a dozen people involved, but they’re not […]

VANCOUVER, B.C. —Computer simulations and video graphics are about to get a lot more real. Nvidia launched a new series of high-performance GPUs that greatly reduce the processing time for animation rendering from hours down to near real-time, according to company officials. Company CEO and founder Jensen Huang took to the stage here at the […]

Oracle CTO Larry Ellison on Aug. 7 announced the release of new transaction processing features for the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud, the latest milestone for the cloud database since the company introduced autonomous data warehousing capabilities earlier this year. Ellison said that with the addition of transaction processing Oracle offers a comprehensive, autonomous solution. “With […]

Flock, which offers a popular team messaging app, is giving HipChat and Stride users the chance to move to Flock Pro for free for a year. The news comes less than a week after Slack announced it had bought the intellectual property behind chat and messaging service HipChat and Stride, another chat and collaboration service […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—For all the development work that’s been done on enterprise applications that use artificial intelligence to analyze corporate data, the CEO of Aera Technology believes companies aren’t gaining many insights into how well their businesses are performing.  “There’s been a lot of work done to help companies process information, but there hasn’t been […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Google continued to woo enterprise customers at its Google Cloud Next conference during several keynote presentations here on July 25. Security is the top concern of enterprise customers, according to Garrick Toubassi, Google’s vice president of engineering for its G Suite offering. To that end, he said Google is using its significant […]

Salesforce.com on July 11 introduced Einstein Next Best Action, the latest addition to its array of cloud services that use artificial intelligence to help salespeople sell more by identifying potential customer needs. Salesforce had already announced and been piloting some of these cloud services, including Einstein Bots for Service, which are customized service chatbots that […]

APIs, the software that lets applications talk to each other, are becoming increasingly important in this era of cloud and mobile computing. But identity provider Ping Identity argues APIs (application programming interfaces) are also at risk of being compromised and plans to release a solution based on technology from its recent purchase of Elastic Beam, […]