| Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | What Will Salesforce.com Buy With $1 Billion? Salesforce.com announced on Monday that it intends to offer $1 billion in long-term convertible debt with an option to raise an additional $150 million. It's clearly a war chest for acquisitions, but just what will Salesforce.com acquire? CEO Mark Benioff has made no secret of Salesforce.com's acquisition plans. Why bother? Benioff's goal to build the company to $10 billion in revenue is well documented, and that's not going to happen through organic growth alone--no matter how hot its existing sales and service offerings may be. Benioff confessed, during the company's most recent earnings conference call, that Salesforce.com "needs to buy more marketing companies, honestly, because there's more for us to do." One obvious acquisition target would be... READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS | |  COMMENTARY SAS Upgrades Visual Analytics App By Cindi Howson CEO and founder Dr. James Goodnight last week demonstrated the next release of Visual Analytics 6.2, due mid year. Its forecasting abilities are a clear differentiator. A few visual data discovery products will do a simple forecast based on a moving average or linear regression, but Visual Analytics supports six different forecasting algorithms including Holt-Winters method to account for seasonality. Windows 8 Device Choices Baffle Buyers By Kevin Casey I'm all for choice, but sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. It strikes me that this is a growing problem for Microsoft's Windows 8. When the revamped operating system catches a would-be buyer's eye, there's quite a bit of work required to make a smart purchasing decision from a hardware standpoint. New Technologies Require New Organizational Approaches By Jim Ditmore IT organizations are challenged to keep up with cloud, mobile and big data technologies. Some recommend bringing on more technology "generalists," because cloud services in particular can call on multiple areas of expertise (storage, server, networking). Or they recommend employing IT "service managers" to bundle up infrastructure components. But such changes can reduce your team's expertise and accountability. So how do you grow your organization's expertise to handle new technologies? IT Age Discrimination: You're Not The Dinosaur By Jonathan Feldman In our discussion of IT ageism, many IT pros say they feel caught in a hiring trap. Don't wait for some big, slow and stupid organization to snap you up. | JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By NAME: "Technology changes faster than corporations are willing to invest. Corporations are all grasshoppers not ants that prepare. When they decide it's time to invest in new technology, most often their staff are NOT up to the task. Instead of investing in people, they'd rather raid overseas companies that do. It's very hard for the current staff to keep up to date on technology not used by the current employer and when the employer finally decides to upgrade there isn't enough time to retrain existing staff. They are discarded for those who have the new technology skills." In reply to: IT Age Discrimination: You're Not The Dinosaur View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Informed CIO: Cloud Standards In this report, we'll explain the drivers for cloud standards, discuss the importance of evaluating whether any given standard is worthwhile, walk through the main cloud standards (formal, de facto and otherwise) by category and give a sneak peek at results from our new InformationWeek Standardization Survey. Finally, we asked six thought leaders in the field for predictions--their answers might surprise you. Download Now (Registration Required)
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