by Daniel Luebke (@danieljluebke)
Over the past month we’ve chased some of the biggest news in enterprise software, hardware and technology. For daily updates in enterprise software, training and technology follow ServiceRocket on twitter or subscribe to our blog.
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Modernizing Enterprise Software Increases Business Performance, Speeds Time to Market and Boosts Revenue
Wall Street Journal | July 15th, 2014
Business leaders widely accept that success depends on keeping their technology infrastructure current and strategically planning for new innovation. This research identifies the important underlying connections among development agility and speed, software modernization and business profit and growth. (Read more)
Apple, IBM in massive enterprise hardware, software partnership
CNBC | July 15th, 2014
Tech behemoths Apple and IBM announced a partnership Tuesday that could make Apple—traditionally a consumer brand—a major player in the business market.
IBM said it would create a class of more than 100 business applications exclusively for iPhones and iPads to run on Apple's iOS platform. In return, IBM will sell Apple's products with 100 industry-specific apps to its clients worldwide.
The partnership is about "transforming enterprise," Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC in an exclusive interview. The partnership aims to "deliver on the promise of mobile in a big way," he said. (Read more)
Tech behemoths Salesforce Mobile Reports And Dashboards Provide In-depth Knowledge On The Fly
TechCrunch | July 2nd, 2014
Salesforce.com today announced a new mobile reports and dashboards tool that runs on their mobile Salesforce1 platform. The goal of the product is to give salespeople access to information on the go, presented to them in a customized fashion to meet the unique needs of each individual user.
Salesforce customers have told them, it’s great to have access to data at their desks, but very often, salespeople are in the field and they need access to information wherever they are. The new Salesforce1 Mobile Reports and Dashboards product is designed to give them the information they need on the fly from their mobile devices.
According to Salesforce, you can create custom dashboards with the data that matters most to you and you can even drill down into the data to see the raw data on which the dashboard was based. Further, you can tap into third-party graphing tools like Google Charts or the open source D3 graphing tool. (Read more)
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