Guest author Daniel Kraft is the president and CEO of Sitrion, a public speaker on employee engagement, productivity and other topics.The enterprise software market is poised to explode. In a recent report, Gartner projects app spending by companies to rise 7.5% this year to $149.9 billion, and in 2019, to more...
Wearables are red hot and Samsung are at the tip of the spear with the Gear S2. What some people may not appreciate yet, though, is the role which wearables can play for businesses, as well as their more obvious leisure and consumer purposes, such as health-tracking, notifications, etc. "Wearables...
Guest author Edith Harbaugh is the CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a service that helps software teams launch, measure, and control their features.As I was going through my fundraising for LaunchDarkly, I was surprised by my friends reactions of “Oh, it’s just like Shark Tank; you pitch four VCs on...
Guest author Jesus Rodriguez is the founder of KidoZen.The last few years have brought a new wave of innovation to enterprise software. From companies like Workday and Zendesk redefining traditional business processes to Slack and Box opening new areas of innovation, the enterprise software space have seen companies rise up...
Red Hat Inc. and Samsung Electronics America Inc. have announced a strategic alliance to deliver the next generation of mobile solutions for the enterprise. The companies hope the combination of Red Hat's open source middleware, mobile and cloud technologies combined with Samsung's mobile device portfolio are able to deliver...
Google has its own two-factor authentication (2FA), so why is its venture arm investing in a company that sells 2FA services?Because, it turns out, enterprise security is a really big deal, according to Google Ventures partner Karim Faris. Faris has been hammering this enterprise security theme for several years now,...
Samsung has launched Samsung Business, a new umbrella brand that is for the enterprise-based Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, as part of its end-to-end business portfolio. Many of these products will be Tizen based, and form Samsung's IoT Tizen vision. In a keynote at CeBIT 2015 in Hannover, Germany,...
Google is dumping the tired "enterprise" label for its business products, renaming them Google for Work.Gosh, where have we heard that one before? Oh, right—here on ReadWrite, where, two months ago, we switched our coverage of business tools from the section formerly known as Enterprise to a new section known...
Never has it been so cool to be boring. For years Box CEO Aaron Levie has waged a lonely campaign to make suit-and-tie business software less stuffy and more exciting. Based on some recent data, it looks like the world is taking notice.Venture Capital As A Lagging IndicatorBox may have...
Guest author Jesus Rodriguez is the CEO and co-founder of KidoZen.Mobility is one of the most transformational trends in the modern enterprise. Smartphone and tablets have changed how employees fundamentally use their computers, which means the entire notion of enterprise productivity and software development must be rethought. Many companies are...
Box, a cloud storage service for business, filed with the SEC to raise up to $250 million in an initial public offering. While going public could give the young company a credibility boost and a currency—i.e., options and shares—for acquisitions and employee recruitment, Box is seeking a smaller sum in its...
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to state that social collaboration tools do not help with office productivity.The current generation of white-collar workers did not exist in the pre-Internet age, so not using social tools to collaborate seems counter-intuitive. It’s like telling someone in the Iron Age to still use bronze simply...
Around this time of year, the concentration of hoopla around Big Data, data warehousing and business intelligence is so thick you could probably make a chart about it. (I'm sure someone already has.) A lot of that is due to the Big Data love-fest known as O’Reilly Strata.Strata, of course, remains...
In celebrating the significant contributions Twitter, Facebook and other Web giants have made to open source, did ReadWrite fail to credit more traditional software vendors for their own contributions? That's the accusation being leveled by some members of the open source business community. But is it fair?When I Was A...
Technology journalist Robert Cringley thinks IBM is doomed because it just sold its Intel server business to Lenovo. On the contrary, this may be the clearest indication that IBM may thrive. After all, given the trend toward cloud and build-your-own-datacenters, has there ever been a worse time to be selling...
This guide is not for big old vendors or inside sales; this guide is for tech founders of enterprise software startups looking for outside sales people to generate millions of dollars for the company year in and year out.Here are nine things to look for to find the A-team sales...
ReadWritePredict is a look ahead at the technology trends and companies that will shape the coming year.Well, that was a fun year for the enterprise. What will 2014 have in store? More of the same, to be sure, but there might be some surprises on the horizon.Microsoft Splits-ville?As my colleague...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.In looking back over the past 12 months, it’s apparent businesses pushed the envelope of the programmable web. Instead of being influenced by consumer apps and trends like BYOD, employers this year looked inward to solve...
While mobile developers may hope to strike it rich with the next Candy Crush Saga, the reality is that enterprise developers stand to make four times as much money building mobile apps than consumer-oriented developers do, according to research from VisionMobile. While money isn't everything, especially in developer land, for...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) could be worth upwards of $50 billion by 2015, by some estimates, but that doesn't mean enterprise IT is rushing to embrace the cloud leader. In a blunt reminder that the enterprise is different, UBS analyst Brent Thill argues that old-line datacenter outfits Microsoft and VMware—not...
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