Aptean delves into sentiment analysis with acquisition of TheySay
Aptean has announced the acquisition of TheySay. London based TheySay provides an analytics platform that delivers insights based on sentiment of text used on the web. It is Aptean’s 15th acquisition...
UK names “Silicon Valley” champion
The UK government has announced the appointment of Iain Stewart, MP as the new champion for the UK’s “Silicon Valley”. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid believes that the Cambridge-Milton Keynes-Oxford corridor: “has...
FSB tells UK Government to deal with late payments
Mike Cherry, Chairman, Federation of Small Business (FSB) has published his New Year message. He has called on the UK Government to deal with late payments, poor broadband, bank branch closures...
21 Books chosen by Business Leaders
You’ve finished opening your presents but no one bought you a book. This blog provide a list of books from industry leaders that Enterprise Times has interviewed in 2017. The question...
Fujitsu and Microsoft collaborate on AI
Fujitsu and Microsoft have announced plans to build "human-centric" solutions by combining their AI technologies. The two companies claim that they are aiming: "to accelerate the transformation of the ways people...
Too many changes at Apttus?
Apttus has announced more senior leadership appointments as the year closes. As part of their global expansion it has made three appointments in India. It also announced two C Suite changes...
Tesla megabattery saves grid from generator failure?
Only commissioned on December 1st, a Tesla megabattery (the Hornsdale facility) 'stepped in' to balance the grid - reacting in 70ms and beating by far the contracted 6 second response time...
Oracle makes bid for Aconex
Oracle is back on the acquisition trail with a bid for project management collaboration software, Aconex. It has offered AU$7.80 per share in cash valuing the business at around AU$1.6 billion...
Oracle smashes cloud targets with more to come
Oracle announced earnings above expectations in its Q2 results. Total revenues were up 6.6% to $9.6 billion. Cloud SaaS revenues were up 55% alone to $1.1 billion and cloud PaaS revenue...
Infor continues to perform in cloud
Infor announced its Q2 2018 results this week. It is successfully continuing its transition from a legacy on-premises software provider to a cloud based model. It now receives more that 64%...