Year: 2012

  • Yahoo Taps PayPal President Thompson as Next CEO

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) Jan. 4 named PayPal President Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer, ending months of searching after the struggling media company fired Carl Bartz from the role in September. Thompson, who was also appointed to Yahoo’s board of directors, will take the helm Jan. 9, when interim CEO Tim Morse will resume his role… Read more

  • Kofax Launches Dotimage Enterprise Edition

    Nathan Eddy

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    Kofax, provider of capture-enabled business process management (BPM) solutions, announced the launch of DotImage Enterprise Edition, software for enabling Internet browser based portal applications with document scanning, viewing, annotating and processing capabilities that is fully integrated with Kofax’s enterprise capture platform. DotImage Enterprise Edition allows customers to extend enterprise capture solutions beyond firewalls to include… Read more

  • ASCII Group Offers E-Newsletter, Social Marketing Service to Members

    Alison Diana

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    The ASCII Group has unveiled a complementary e-newsletter service designed to help solution providers market themselves to clients, prospects, and contacts with new content in a customizable format each month. Available to channel organizations as part of their regular membership fee, the service was the result of ASCII Group research that found many IT providers… Read more

  • Mobile, Social, and Small Business Highlight 2012’s CRM Opportunities

    Ericka Chickowski

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    As organizations deal with new rules of customer engagement and an explosion in ways to parse and deliver customer data, the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market is undeniably hot. Figures out just before the holidays show a healthy growth in the market and as we move into 2012 experts believe that opportunities in mobile CRM,… Read more

  • Dell SecureWorks

    Dell SecureWorks

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Dell SecureWorks Close Date: FebruaryPrice: $612 millionClosed right at the start of the year, this deal gives Dell a mature portfolio of managed service capabilities and a better way to engage with SMB and mid-market customers thirsting for turnkey security offerings. Thoma Bravo Buys Tripwire Close Date: May Price: Undisclosed,A private equity firm with some… Read more

  • Data Management Software Revenue to Surge in 2012: Gartner

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    Worldwide master data management (MDM) software revenue will reach $1.9 billion in 2012, a 21 percent increase from 2011, according to IT research firm Gartner. And the market is forecast to reach $3.2 billion by 2015. The report found the overall MDM market is dominated by three major players–IBM, Oracle and SAP–although within the overall… Read more