Links 10/9/2014: SAP, Birst partner on Business Intelligence

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Birst, SAP Join Forces as Big Firms Move Into Business Intelligence (Wall Street Journal: Venture
Capital Dispatch)

SAP and Birst steal Salesforce.com’s cloud analytics thunder on Dreamforce eve (Diginomica)

Slack exposes companies’ team names to outsiders, but it’s a feature, not a bug (The Next Web)

HubSpot IPO Raises $125M; Big Investor Demand, Big Symbolism for Boston Tech (Bostinno)


Cadient acquired by tech co. Cognizant (Medical Marketing & Media)

Powerlytics Receives Strategic Investment from CME Group (Business Wire)

IBM (Kenexa) using analytics software to solve HR problems (Washington Post)


Salesforce Introduces Interactive Mobile Customer Service And Gives Core CRM A Makeover (TechCrunch)

For Uber, Lyft, Pa. permits unlikely this year (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Links 8/20/2013: Urban Outfitters increasingly sees itself as ecommerce company

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Birst Raises $38M Led By Sequoia To Expand Its Cloud-Based Business Intelligence Solutions (TechCrunch)
QlikTech competitor.

Violle, LLC and NewSpring Capital Complete Acquisition of Majority Interest in Utilipath, LLC (PR Newswire)

Urban Outfitters Chases Bohemian Shoppers Online (Business Week)
“We really started to think about ourselves as a pure play e-commerce company that happened to have really great, productive, differentiated stores in 500 locations around the world that’s relevant for our consumer,” - Matthew Kaness, chief strategy officer for Urban Outfitters, at a June conference.


Dell PartnerDirect Nears Software Integration (Channelnomics)

Rackspace adds dedicated VMware vCenter to hybrid cloud lineup
(ZDNet)

SAP takes fight to Salesforce.com, Oracle with social intelligence app (PC World)


InsPro Technologies Positioned in the “Challengers” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for North American Life Insurance Policy Administration Systems (Business Wire)

UnitedHealthcare's New Online Service Lets Consumers Pay Their Medical Bills Online and Better Manage Health Care Expenses
Enables consumers to pay their medical bills with their credit card, debit card, health savings account, or bank account via the InstaMed payments network (Business Wire)

Synnex, Comcast Join Forces For Telco Services Push
(CRN)

Hersha hotels add Comcast fiber (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

U.S. cable and telecom companies add 295,000 new subscribers in Q2
(Gigaom)