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Salesforce hopes its Marketing Cloud, built on its acquisitions of Radian6 and Buddy Media, will appeal to CMOs who want to consolidate social media marketing activities.

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ClearStory, another startup that puts a user-friendly spin on Big Data analytics, rakes in VC funds.

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OneDesk is a souped-up project management tool designed from the ground up for team collaboration and participation from external users.

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As part of its Smarter Commerce initiative, IBM has released the Netezza Customer Intelligence Appliance, a SQL-based enterprise data warehouse capable of analyzing up to petabytes of Big Data for retailers.

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A year after schooling former Jeopardy! champs, Watson gears up for crunching Big Data on the cloud.

Companies employ native application integration to deliver supply chain and accounting solution in a single cloud.

The software giant says its Healthcare Analytics Data Integration consolidates, integrates, validates and loads source data from clinical, financial, administrative and research systems into Oracle's healthcare data model.