News from week beginning 9th November
#News from week beginning 9th November included three acquisitions north of one billion. Including @Workfront, @Planview and @Pipedrive
Cybercriminals target shoppers with brand forgery
Ahead of Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Inky reports that cybercriminals are targeting shoppers with brand forgery attacks. To cybercriminals are stealing the source code from well-known brands to create their lookalike web...
Zoho teams up with TCS
Zoho has forged a strategic alliance with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to cover its Customer Relationship Management, IT Service Management and e-Commerce solutions. The agreement will see TCS work with large...
Pipedrive announces Unicorn as Vista Equity Partners takes controlling share
Vista Equity Partners has taken out a majority interest in Pipedrive, one of the leading CRM platforms for sales and marketing teams. Full details of the funding were kept under wraps. However,...
How healthy are your partner relationships
PartnerScore has launched a new software solution that aims to measure the health of partner and channel relationships. Enterprise Times spoke to Ian Bamford, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer about the...
Take advantage of the Changepoint with three As
Matt Scheuing, CEO Changepoint opened the keynote at Changepoint Connections, a virtual series of events. The first event included a guest keynote by Dr Klaus Leopold, author of “rethinking AGILE”. Scheuing...
NetSuite launches SuiteAccountants
To coincide with International Accounting day Oracle NetSuite launched a new program called SuiteAccountants. The new program aims to help Accountants support clients that use NetSuite. This new Channel partner program...
Future of technology at Sage
Aaron Harris is the CTO of Sage; he is the architect of Sage Intacct and a multi-tenant cloud evangelist. Enterprise Times spoke to him shortly after his keynote was streamed at...
Aviya to solve customer challenges with Rootstock
Rootstock continues to expand its ecosystem with new partnerships. It has announced a new partnership with Aviya, a consulting company that has deep expertise across a range of manufacturing industries including...
Adobe buys Workfront for $1.5 billion
Adobe has announced its intent to acquire Workfront for $1.5 billion. Workfront is a leading work management platform for marketers with more than 3,000 customers and more than a million users....
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Salesforce unveils Einstein Automate
Salesforce has unveiled Einstein Automate – an end-to-end workflow automation solution that empowers people and businesses to be more productive. Einstein Automate delivers automation...
Crayon continues expansion with acquisition of Sensa
Crayon has announced its agreement to purchase Managed Services company Sensa. The deal will cost Crayon ISK 3.25bn (£18.93 million). The purchase price will...
Salesforce goes public with Hyperforce
Salesforce is to make its platform available on “major” public clouds. The new architecture is called Salesforce Hyperforce. All Salesforce applications are available in...
Research finds only 37% of organisations have the skills and technology to keep pace...
MuleSoft has announced the findings of The State of Business and IT Innovation report. The company commissioned the global survey of 1,739 line of...
Abintegro joins The Access Group People division
The Access Group is to acquire Abintegro Limited. Headquartered in London, Abintegro provides customers with an easy to use career solution that helps improve...
Salesforce hits triple of Slack, Results and Dreamforce
While the big announcement was its acquisition of Slack, Salesforce also issued yet another strong set of results for Q3 2020. Later today Marc...
Salesforce takes up Slack for $27.7 billion
Salesforce finally confirmed the rumours as it announced that it had reached an agreement to buy Slack for a total value of $27.7 billion....
Finmail Mailbox for sending digital currency by email
Securechain, a Copenhagen-based fintech products and digital payment solutions startup has launched Finmail Mailbox. Finmail Mailbox integrates both email and a digital currency payment...
Uswitch report reveals the world’s biggest data breaches
A new report by Uswitch has revealed which countries have been the worst hit by data breaches. The report also highlights the worst cases...
Cyber researchers uncover end-to-end cyber-biological attack
An end-to-end cyber-biological attack has been uncovered by cyber researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Using malware, a cybercriminal could use change...
SMB’s cyber reliance damaged by lack of IT expertise
A lack of IT expertise is damaging the cyber resilience of SMB’s. Worryingly, around 25% of small businesses are spending less on cyber resilience....
SMEs failing security assessments by not protecting home networks
SMEs are at risk of failing security assessments by not protecting the home networks of their employees. That claims from cybersecurity and IT Managed...
Charles Brett’s Blockchain Catch-up Week 46 (to w/e 27th November)
This is a Charles Brett's start-of-the-week Enterprise Times ‘blockchain catch-up’ for Week 46. Necessarily it is idiosyncratic and selective.
It is not intended to be...
UK police forces using cloud for data storage
47% of UK police forces currently use a hybrid-cloud model to access and store data. The details emerged from a survey of UK police...
