New-market disruption is a rare phenomenon and usually comes in waves in conjunction with some form of dramatic technological advance. Many disruptive companies (both new and existing) created new mar
About 15 years ago, the Internet triggered a platform shift in the delivery of enterprise software; a wave of cloud startups quickly unseated the kings of the server era. Now, another platform evoluti
Some big news today for Red Hat, the open source company that provides a platform for application development and other platform as a service solutions: It is buying FeedHenry, an Ireland-based provi
On the heels of news that Apple would be significantly ramping up its mobile enterprise push in a partnership with IBM, BlackBerry is also looking to step up its game. Today, the company announced tha
If you’re building an enterprise-software company, mobile must be core to your product strategy; it can’t be an afterthought or add-on. And you must build an elegant, easy-to-use mobile app, becau
Just a few months after acquiring the pricing and quote-check software developer SteelBrick in a $5 million transaction, Godard Abel, the serial entrepreneur behind BigMachines and G2 Crowd, has broug
CRM behemoths like Salesforce and Oracle, and more mature startups like Domo, have made some significant inroads into mobile and specifically apps for mobile salespeople, but a new startup believes th
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomfoolery.com">Tomfoolery</a>, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs committed to making enterprise solutions more consumer-friendly, is today launc
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomfoolery.com">Tomfoolery</a>, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs that aims to make enterprise apps capturing some of the light and free nature o
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wandera.com">Wandera</a>, a startup that offers enterprises a cloud-based solution to reduce the costs of mobile data through compression and better management, is
Apps can decay pretty quickly without updates after deployment. The problem is, most of the time the only one who can make the updates to the app is the person who developed it. <a target="_blank" hre
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of mobile enterprise services. Orlando, Fla.-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kony.com">Kony Solutions</a> has bought <a target="_blank" href="http://
Amid <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/slow-and-low-smartphone-sales-grew-by-only-32-this-quarter-overall-mobile-market-just-1-says-strategyanalytics/">fierce smartphone competition</a> betwe