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	Zoho guns for Salesforce.com with major upgrade to its SaaS CRM software Zoho unveiled a significant upgrade to its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) software on Thursday with new features including an overhauled user interface and an integration with LinkedIn. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco UCS with intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors Learn how the Cisco Unified Computing System, powered by intelligent Intel® Xeon® processors, signals an evolution in the data center: Cisco Unified Computing at Work, Unified Computing Design Zone, Build a Cloud Ready Data Center and Changing the Server Industry. Learn More In this Issue Deal means more SAP cloud changes IBM tracks pork chops from pig to plate Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software IBM buys Emptoris for contract managment, supply software App Gems: Top news apps Gmail Backup, a recipe for happiness Twitter Redesign Could Knock Out Third-Party Apps The Grill: Doug Cutting Putting a Lock on Password Management WEBCAST: IBM InfoSphere MDM Solution for Product Information Management Learn how leading retailers, distributors and manufacturers leverage IBM InfoSphere Product Information Management solutions to boost supply chain productivity and deliver an optimal customer purchase experience. Learn More Deal means more SAP cloud changes If its $3.4 billion bid to buy SuccessFactors is successful, SAP could finally stabilize its cloud computing strategy, which has so far been mostly ineffectual. Read More IBM tracks pork chops from pig to plate IBM is deploying technology that allows meat suppliers to track a single pig all the way from farm animal to pork chop. Read More Salesforce.com acquires Rypple for push into cloud HR software Salesforce.com announced Thursday it will acquire cloud-based performance management vendor Rypple in a bid to enter the human resources software market. Read More IBM buys Emptoris for contract managment, supply software IBM has signed a deal to buy supply and contract management software vendor Emptoris in another bid to fill out its growing catalog of business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce technologies, the company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close in the first quarter of next year, were not provided. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya 4 Key Capabilities Every SMB Requires New IP-based communications systems are being deployed by small and midsized businesses at a rapid rate. Learn how these organizations are enabling faster responsiveness, creating better customer experiences, speeding office or mobile interactions, and dramatically reducing existing communications costs. Learn More App Gems: Top news apps Few App Store categories saw as much upheaval in the past year as news delivery apps did. Developers have seized on the idea of letting mobile device users customize their news. They've also found new ways of delivering streaming video straight to your iOS device. Our two top news app picks represent the best of those particular trends. Read More Gmail Backup, a recipe for happiness Gibbs wants to avoid a "Googlesplosion" ... Gmail Backup is the recipe for happiness. Read More Twitter Redesign Could Knock Out Third-Party Apps Twitter announced an update to its mobile client last week that may render third-party, multi-account Twitter clients obsolete. Third-party Twitter mobile apps have always been a few steps ahead of Twitter when it came to ease of use and features, but that will no longer be the case. Read More The Grill: Doug Cutting Hadoop creator Doug Cutting says he expects the surge in interest in the big-data storage and analytics framework to continue. Read More Putting a Lock on Password Management A cancer diagnostics firm is using a single sign-on service to secure a growing pool of SaaS subscriptions. Read More
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