The News Review:
- Software Giants Join Specialists In Demand Management
- Advent Software Speaking at TradeTech USA 2008
- QuickArrow Named Finalist in the Software & Information Industry …
- Answers Systems acquires Helm Software
- Salesforce.com sees Microsoft Azure as validating SaaS
- pera Software Q4 profit up sees good growth
- Ahead of the Bell: Analyst upgrades BMC Software
Software Giants Join Specialists In Demand Management
InformationWeek
It applies predictive analytics to inventory management. Retail Solutions Combining analytic tools and a point-of-sale data network Retail Solutions uses a software-as-a-service approach in aggregating and cleansing point-of-sale data for more than 25 retailers and has 250-plus suppliers using it for demand management. SAP Through a partnership inked with Vision Chain last year.
Advent Software Speaking at TradeTech USA 2008
CNNMoney.com
(NASDAQ: ADVS) a leading provider of software and services to the globalinvestment management industry announced today that John Bird Director ofProduct Marketing will speak at TradeTech USA 2009 taking place in NewYork next week. TradeTech is North America’s premier equity tradingsummit. Bird will participate in a panel session titled Integrating your MSinto your EMS to Achieve Maximum Functionality of Each System and EliminateDelay in Execution. The panel will discuss how to optimize the use oforder management systems and execution management systems.
QuickArrow Named Finalist in the Software & Information Industry …
MSNBC
the leader in SaaS Services Automation today announced that its
Professional Services
Automation (PSA) solution was chosen as a finalist for the 24th Annual
CDiE Awards. Since 1986 the CDiE Awards have recognized outstanding
achievement and vision in the software digital information and education
technology industries.
Answers Systems acquires Helm Software
Bizjournals.com
Both companies provide software that tracks contracts and details between food manufacturers and food service operators such as restaurants hotels and hospitals. Doug McFetters president and chief operating officer of Helm said the company and its three employees will continue to operate from its Scottsdale headquarters. McFetters and Dan Buckstaff co-founded Helm in 2000. McFetters will become vice president of Answers Systems’ account executive group while Buckstaff will serve on Answers’ board of directors. McFetters said Helm is bringing over four customers: Vitality Foodservice Inc.
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Salesforce.com sees Microsoft Azure as validating SaaS
NetworkWorld.com
com announced that subscription and support revenues were $984. 6 million for the year an increase of 45 per cent while professional services revenue rose 35 per cent to $92. In Singapore for a company annual sales ‘kick off’ Lindsey Armstrong Salesforce.
pera Software Q4 profit up sees good growth
Reuters
9 mln crowns vs forecast 29 mln * Rev up 69 percent to 157 mln vs 136-155 mln forecasts * CE says will maintain growth in difficult market * Shares rise 2. 1 percent hit eight-month high (Adds CE analyst comments byline; updates shares) By Joachim Dagenborg SL Feb 27 (Reuters) – Norwegian Internet browser firmpera Software ASA (. L) reported forecast-beating profitsand revenue for the fourth quarter and said it saw good growthprospects in the short and long term. “We aim to keep our growth rate despite being in acomplicated market” Chief Executive Jon von Tetzchner toldReuters. Shares in pera rose 2.
Ahead of the Bell: Analyst upgrades BMC Software
Forbes
to “verweight” predicting that the number of big deals the enterprise software maker gets from the mainframe business could rise “meaningfully” by the end of 2009. In a note to clients late Thursday Thomas Weisel analyst Tim Klasell said BMC usually brings in a large portion of its business from big deals noting that it had 41 deals that were greater than $1 million in its fiscal 2009 third quarter.