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Sage CRM Solutions Developing Cloud-Based On-Demand Services To Aid Small And Mid-Sized Businesses With Sales And Marketing

Initial ACT! E-marketing service enables powerful e-mail marketing campaigns at an SMB price
Sage North America, which provides business management software and services to more than three million small and mid-sized businesses in Canada and the United States, is developing cloud-based on-demand services for its Sage CRM Solutions product family. ACT! E-marketing, the initial service offering from Sage, provides e-mail marketing campaign management compatible with the ACT! by Sage 2010 contact and customer manager. Sage plans additional on-demand services for its on-premises and hosted CRM systems including sales, marketing, e-commerce and mobility services, among others, that allow SMBs to subscribe to functionality they need, as they need it.
“On-demand services are part of our Sage CRM Solutions 2010 strategy to extend CRM value across our customers’ organizations,” said Joe Bergera, executive vice president and general manager, Sage CRM Solutions.

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ManageEngine Brings New Levels of Mobility to Enterprise IT Management with Latest Update to Flagship Network Management Solution

IT Administrators Can Now Access ManageEngine OpManager Over Smartphones, Manage Alarms Through Twitter And Receive Alerts Via RSS -ManageEngine, makers of a globally renowned suite of cost effective network, systems, applications and security management software solutions today announced a major update to the company’s flagship network management solution, OpManager, allowing IT administrators to manage their networks from anywhere, at any time of day. The new OpManager 8.5 features an interface specifically designed and optimized for the latest generation of smartphones. OpManager 8.5 automatically detects the type, make and model of the accessing mobile phone or Personal Digital Assistant and redirects the user’s browser to the correct interface.

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VMware Expands VMware vCloud Developer Ecosystem with Open-Source Java and Python SDKs for VMware vCloud API

Cloudera and WebAppVM Announce New Implementations Using VMware vCloud API -VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced availability of both Java and Python open-source software development kits (SDKs) for the VMware vCloud API, making it easier for developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to jumpstart their projects by flexibly leveraging private and public cloud services. The new Python and Java SDKs for the VMware vCloud API will further simplify and accelerate developers’ ability to leverage VMware vCloud services. VMware partners Cloudera and WebAppVM also announced new solutions for VMware vCloud Express developed with the VMware vCloud API and the SDKs. “We are working aggressively to expand the VMware vCloud ecosystem and accelerate market availability of open-source client libraries for the VMware vCloud API,” said Dan Chu, vice president, cloud infrastructure and services, VMware.

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IBM Accelerates Cloud Computing With LotusLive

New Innovation Pipeline and Platform for Integration to Fuel Market Expansion - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the technology and business expansion of its LotusLive cloud collaboration platform through a new R&D pipeline from IBM Research and plans to open the LotusLive suite to new partners. LotusLive cloud services provide integrated email, Web conferencing, social networking and collaboration with IBM's focus on security, reliability and enterprise integration. IBM Research and Lotus are joining forces to deliver new innovation on the Web through the creation of LotusLive Labs -- a proving ground for advances in business-driven collaboration in the cloud. Known for pushing the boundaries of science, technology and business to build a smarter planet, IBM researchers have been recognized with five Nobel prizes. In 2009, IBM received 4,914 US patents -- marking the 17th consecutive year it has topped the list of the world's most inventive companies.

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A10 Networks Unveils Cloud Computing and Virtualization Roadmap for Application Delivery

New AX Series Products Include the SoftAX SoftADC and AX-V, the Industry's First Appliance Optimized for SoftADCs- A10 Networks™, the technology leader in Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), today announced its new AX Series virtualization product roadmap. As Cloud Computing increases, virtualization is a key enabler, delivering elasticity, economies of scale and the ability to scale with commodity hardware or hardware appliances. With the new AX Series virtualization options, customers offering public and private Cloud Computing models benefit from a wide range of efficient, responsive and cost-effective solutions to scale up and down, and enhance performance, on demand. "A10 is clearly listening to its customers by offering the widest choice of virtualization solutions of any Application Delivery Controller vendor," said Burzin Engineer, VP of Technology, BizRate/Shopzilla. .

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iPass Unveils Open Platform for Global Enterprise Mobility Services

New cloud-based offering enables enterprises to deploy their own carrier independent mobility services; delivers real-time cost control, security and intelligence at the point of connection - iPass® Inc. (NASDAQ: IPAS), today announced the iPass Open Mobile Platform. The new cloud-based platform gives enterprises choice and flexibility to cost-effectively implement and manage their own mobility strategy by mixing and matching any network or device without requiring changes in infrastructure or disrupting the mobile worker’s connectivity experience. Designed to significantly improve the economics of mobility, the iPass Open Mobile Platform provides the foundation for an expanded portfolio of enterprise mobility services that enables carrier independence, contains expensive connectivity costs, decreases end-user support costs and reduces the administrative burden of managing a mobile workforce.

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Avaya Unveils Roadmap for Future of Business Communications

Integration of former Nortel Enterprise Solutions portfolio accelerates company's vision of communications powering enhanced business effectiveness - Avaya today unveiled its vision for the future of communications and a roadmap that integrates products and services from the recently acquired Nortel Enterprise Solutions (NES) to create a new standard for business communications. Avaya's vision is based on open standards, communications-enabled business systems and effective, contextual, real-time communications. Using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) organizations, large to small, can make smooth transitions to new capabilities at their own pace while protecting existing communications investments. Avaya's communications-enabled business systems streamline business processes by injecting real-time communications where they can provide value. Users are able to be more effective by having access to information based on the context of the task at hand.


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Spigit Announces the Launch of WE by Spigit for SMB, Industry's First Innovation Platform Built to Meet the Needs of Small Business Owners

WE by Spigit Offers Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Access to Award-Winning, Enterprise-Grade Idea Management Software

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VMware Announces the Availability of VMware Go™ - Virtualization for SMBs in Three Easy Steps

VMware Go™ provides a quick and easy way for small businesses with limited IT resources and time to get started with virtualization - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced the availability of VMware Go™, a web-based service that allows small or medium businesses (SMBs) to virtualize servers and create running virtual machines with just a few clicks of a mouse. VMware Go™ provides SMBs with an easy on-ramp to virtualizing their applications by automating the installation and configuration of the industry-leading hypervisor, VMware ESXi. “With VMware Go™, we are eliminating the skill barrier for getting started with virtualization, so companies who are concerned about not having the IT resources or expertise, especially SMBs, can now more quickly and easily enjoy the many benefits of virtualization,” said Dan Chu, Vice President of Emerging Products and Markets, VMware.

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DemandTec Deploys nextGEN Capabilities with New Analytics, Enhanced Rules Management, and Market Basket Insights

Latest software release helps retailers and consumer products manufacturers merge shopper insights and segmentation with optimization of merchandising and trade plans-
DemandTec, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMAN), a leading provider of on-demand optimization solutions for retailers and consumer products manufacturers, today announced that the latest release of its software-as-a-service has been deployed and is in use by DemandTec customers. The most recent software update delivers nextGEN capabilities powered by new analytics, sophisticated rules management and enhanced market basket reporting. "More and more retailers and manufacturers are investing in technologies to help them better understand today's shoppers and make better, more targeted pricing, promotion, assortment, marketing, and other business decisions," said Marc Dietz, Vice President of Marketing at DemandTec. "This latest release is another important milestone as we build out our nextGEN capabilities that merge shopper insights and segmentation with merchandising and trade plan optimization to enable our customers to better understand and shape consumer demand."

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Wyse Technology Brings Award-Winning TCX Virtualization Software to PC Market

TCX Suite 4.0 Unifies Product, Pricing and Licensing and Delivers New Functionality to Improve End User Experience on Virtual Clients and PCs - Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing and client virtualization, today announced the availability of Wyse TCX Suite 4.0. Wyse TCX Suite 4.0 unifies all existing Wyse TCX solutions in a single product suite, as well as adds new features. Each underlying software component in the suite delivers an enhancement component designed to work seamlessly within Microsoft Terminal Services, Citrix XenApp™, Citrix XenDesktop™ and VMware View™ environments. Wyse TCX Suite 4.0 includes comprehensive platform support including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. Wyse TCX Suite 4.0 is compatible with XenDesktop 4 and VMware View 4. Wyse TCX Suite 4.0 features Collaborative Processing Architecture (CPA) which intelligently divides the workload between the server and client whenever appropriate, reducing the need for larger servers, and delivering the best client virtualization computing experience available.

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Compellent Launches Storage Center 5

- Dynamic Storage Architecture Simplifies Disaster Recovery, Automates Tiered Storage and Speeds Virtual Data Center Management for Enterprises of All Sizes - Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: CML) today announced the availability of Storage Center 5, designed to simplify disaster recovery and enable automated tiered storage for any sized budget. Built on its Dynamic Block Architecture, Storage Center 5’s new features include: Portable Volume replication, scalable SAS storage, automated tiered storage with RAID 6 protection, Virtual Ports I/O technology, Server Mapping provisioning and space-efficient Consistency Groups. With Compellent’s persistent, scalable design and block-level virtualization, end-users can mix different storage tiers from SAS to SSD in a single, virtualized pool of storage as the core of a fluid data environment.


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IBM and RIM to Fuel Enterprise Collaboration and Social Networking on the BlackBerry Platform for Mobile Business

IBM ( IBM) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of rich, new social networking applications for BlackBerry smartphones.
By demand of their mutual customers, IBM and RIM are bringing the BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Quickr and a new version of the BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections to market through IBM.The new social software offerings will be showcased at the 17th annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Florida this week. According to a recent report, Gartner expects to see steep growth rates for sales of premises- and cloud-based social networking services. As the industry moves toward the three billion phones worldwide with the purpose of providing communications and collaboration anytime and anywhere, Gartner expects more people to spend significant time using collaborative tools on these devices.

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PBworks Launches App Store for Collaboration Templates

25+ usage- and industry-specific templates available to businesses free of charge - PBworks, the leading provider of hosted collaboration solutions for business and education, today announced the launch of the PBworks Template Store. Now users can instantly adopt pre-built apps to meet specific business needs. PBworks templates are workspace templates that anyone, even non-developers, can create and distribute, and they take less than a minute to install. The PBworks Template Store is launching with over 25 different apps, and includes both officially-approved and community-generated templates."PBworks focuses on delivering solutions to specific business problems," said PBworks CEO Jim Groff. "Our new Template Store lets us address many more problems by leveraging the best practices and experiences of the industry's largest user base of over 1 million projects hosted, over 3 million active users, and over 85,000 businesses."

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NetMotion Wireless Raises the Bar for Mobile VPNs With Mobility XE 9.0

Tightens security with strong authentication, provides secure access for managing unattended mobile devices and reauthenticates users without disrupting their applications.
NetMotion Wireless, a leading provider of mobile productivity and management software, announces that their flagship mobile VPN product, Mobility XE, provides new security features that keep mobile workers productive within tightened corporate security environments. The release adds seamless reauthentication without disrupting application sessions, keeps mobile workers in the field and their devices current with unattended device access and enforces strong multifactor authentication tuned for the needs of the organization and the mobile workers.
To address concerns about device theft and requirements such as CJIS or HIPAA, the new user reauthentication capability in 9.0 keeps users connected to networks and applications during the reauthentication process. Workers can re-enter their credentials as required without shutting down and restarting applications.

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Trend Micro Rolls Out New Solution Suites for Enterprises and Medium Businesses Offering Maximum Protection With Minimum Complexity

Four suites bolster Trend Micro Enterprise Security to help organizations secure their data and reduce costs.

Trend Micro is introducing a new family of enterprise and medium business security suites, powered by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure, for organizations looking to effectively block the latest online threats and secure their corporate networks, servers and endpoints, while at the same time realize significant cost-savings during challenging economic times. With security management costs being a significant portion of content security expenditures, the new Trend Micro™ Enterprise Security suites can help protect organizations better while reducing the time it takes to acquire, deploy, and manage content security. According to independent research, Trend Micro can help lower projected infection rates by up to over 60 percent and slash security management costs by up to 40 percent.

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DynamicOps Named One of Top “10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2010”

DynamicOps, a leading provider of automated IT service management software, was named by CIO.com as one of 2010’s top 10 virtualization tools companies to watch. DynamicOps’ Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) software helps companies increase IT operations efficiency and accelerate business agility. VRM allows for the rapid creation and deployment of on-demand IT services according to established IT policies on shared compute resources (private or public clouds). This permits IT organizations to delegate control of the compute infrastructure through self-service, in a well-managed, closely governed, and automated fashion.“Many companies struggle to efficiently scale their virtual infrastructures,” explained Richard Krueger, CEO of DynamicOps.

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Jaspersoft Unveils New Enterprise Edition with Latest Product Release

Jaspersoft delivers new in-memory analysis capabilities and more to solve enterprise-class BI problems for organizations of all sizes Jaspersoft, creator of the world’s most widely used business intelligence software, today announced the availability of Jaspersoft 3.7, which provides powerful functionality for even the most complex BI requirements at an affordable price. The company today is also unveiling the new Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition, which offers a complete package of the most advanced business analytics and reporting functionality available from an open source software provider. Jaspersoft customers include LANDesk, Sungard and the U.S. Navy, among others. Making informed decisions based on facts is increasingly important for both small and large organizations, and the Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition helps deliver advanced BI capabilities previously only available from traditional BI providers and at a much higher investment level.

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Sage Abra SQL HRMS Version 10 Brings New Level of Collaboration Between HR and Management

Dynamic Information Sharing Capabilities Extend Workforce Data to Company Personnel Who Need it Most Sage North America today released Sage Abra SQL HRMS version 10, the latest version of Sage’s award-winning human resource management system (HRMS) for small and midsize companies. Sage Abra is a market-leading HRMS that improves company efficiency by centralizing employee data, simplifying core human resource (HR) and payroll administration and enabling better workforce-related decisions. Version 10 features a new user interface and powerful new dynamic information sharing capabilities that help companies turn workforce data into a competitive advantage.“Finance and operations executives in midsize businesses are recognizing the value that timely and accurate workforce information can have in managing costs and successfully running the business, especially in today’s economy. This increasing demand for workforce data, available in formats and detail for individual purposes, is putting significant strain on HR departments,” said Johnny Laurent, vice president Sage Abra.
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Jive Software acquires social media monitoring innovator Filtrbox

Jive Software has acquired Filtrbox, a social media monitoring (SMM) innovator, whose service enables companies to monitor conversations on the real-time web. A privately held company located in Boulder, Colorado, Filtrbox is a pioneer in the delivery of real-time social media monitoring as on-demand software as a service (SaaS). Filtrbox first offered their service in June of 2008 and today has over 200 customers, many of them leading brands. The acquisition of Filtrbox enables Jive to broaden the reach of our top-rated Social Business Software with a highly complementary technology. Initially, we will integrate Filtrbox technology into our Jive Market Engagement solution, which is the first solution to combine social media monitoring with the power of collaborative Social Business Software to implement a unified social media engagement strategy. Subsequently, Jive will drill deeper to drive business value from the real-time web with unique applications to bridge related internal activities and market-facing activities.

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CDC Software Proposes $105.1 Million Offer To Buy All the Outstanding Shares of Chordiant Software

CDC Software Corporation (NASDAQ: CDCS), a global provider of enterprise software applications and services, today announced that it has delivered this morning a proposal to Chordiant Software, Inc. to acquire all the outstanding shares of Chordiant, a provider of customer experience software and services, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $105.1 million. CDC Software believes the combination between the two companies would create a compelling front office platform in the enterprise market, and that CDC Software and Chordiant are synergistic in a variety of fronts such as their technology, geographic foot print and customers.

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