Xero gobbles Hubdoc up from its ecosystem
Taking a leaf out of the Salesforce playbook Xero has acquired Hubdoc for around US$70 million. Hubdoc was already a respected partner on the Xero marketplace. It captures information from documents,...
Could lost service productivity cost >$5 trillion annually?
ERP services vendor Unit4 commissioned an independent multi-national research study into productivity in the global service industry. It focused on the time office workers spend on primary work. The results show that on average, office workers...
Oracle misses estimates but beats forecasts
The market gave a muted response to Oracle Q1 2020 results yesterday. The share price fell 0.88% on the day and a further 1.69% after hours to $87.20. This is the...
JDA looks to mobile for expansion
JDA has strengthened its mobile offering through two sets of initiatives. The first is the release of two new mobile applications JDA Buyer and JDA InStock. The second is a the new...
MariaDB continues assault on competitors
Open Source database vendor MariaDB has announced its latest update a big data analytics engine called MariaDB ColumnStore. The company claims that this is a significant milestone for the MariaDB open...
Would you let an AI review your contracts?
ThoughtRiver has launched a new AI solution to assess legal contracts. The solution, called Review, is said to be able to assess a contract up to 60 times faster than a...
UK losing ground to cyber criminals
The NCA Strategic Cyber Industry Group has released its first Cyber Crime Assessment today. It contains a stark warning that: "..criminal cyber capability currently outpaces the UK’s collective response to cyber...
Billion-dollar scams
According to security vendor Trend Micro losses caused by Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes cost companies around the world in excess of $2.3 billion over the last two years. The value of the scams...
CIOs admit to feeling the risk
In a survey by telecommunications operator Colt, more than 75% of CIOs have admitted that they are feeling more under pressure and at risk than five years ago.
The survey (registration required)...
Are Spreadsheets on the brink of extinction?
Are we approaching the end of the age of spreadsheets? The beloved of many accountants over the years is facing perhaps its first major threat according to a recent “Global survey...