Software Firm Boosts Market
L.A. Business Journal
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
Software giant Oracle increases footprint with record Santa Monica office deal.
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L.A. Business Journal
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
Software giant Oracle increases footprint with record Santa Monica office deal.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
San Diego-based MeLLmo , the developer of the Roambi business application for the iPhone and iPad, said this morning that it has integrated its software with Oracle's Business Intelligence (BI) suite. The Oracle support comes on top of existing support for SAP, IBM, and Microsoft products. READ MORE>>.
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APRIL 1, 2013
How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , knows the answer and he delights in telling the story of how MySQL ate Oracle's lunch and dinner. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. And Give Them A Prize.
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OCTOBER 12, 2009
Los Angeles-based Sophoi , a developer of media IP mananagement software, has been acquired by Oracle, Oracle said Monday. Oracle said that Sophoi's products will become available as Oracle Media Intellectual Property Management. Sophoi was backed by Oracle which had funded the firm to the tune of $17.5M
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JUNE 28, 2011
In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.
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MAY 17, 2018
Culver City-based DataScience.com , a developer of data science software led by serial entrepreneur Ian Swanson, has been acquired by Oracle , the companies said on Wednesday. Oracle said it will add DataScience.com's platform to its Oracle Cloud, to allow its customers to "fully utilize" machine learning.
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APRIL 14, 2017
Santa Monica-based Meed , a developer of financial technology and banking applications, said late Thursday that it has linked up with Oracle , to deliver its digital financial services to banks worldwide. Meed said it will integrate with Oracle's Digital Banking Experience (OBDx) solution.
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Los Angeles-based FloQast , which develops software to help accountants manage closing their books, has connected its software to Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft with a new software product.
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OCTOBER 3, 2012
a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, said that it has linked with Oracle to bring the popular Java programming language to its machine-to-machine (M2M) chipsets. The two said they are working to bring Oracle Java ME Embedded 3.2 San Diego-based Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. , to ATI's QSC6270-Turbo chipset.
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MARCH 23, 2009
Irvine-based Relsys International , a developer of drug safety and risk management software for the health care industry, has been acquired by software giant Oracle. Oracle said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Relsys, which will become part of its Health Sciences Global Business Unit.
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JANUARY 6, 2012
Pasadena-based Guidance Software , the developer of computer forensics and e-discovery software, said this morning that it has named Daniel Lim as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, and Alex Adrianopoulos as Vice President of Marketing. READ MORE>>.
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APRIL 11, 2014
Irvine-based SecureAuth , which provides two-factor authentication software, hsa named Darin Pendergraft as its new Vice President of Marketing, the company said this week. Pendergraft was most recently at Oracle, and had also served at Quest Software (which is now part of Dell). READ MORE>>.
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FEBRUARY 4, 2016
Los Angeles-based OpenMethods , a developer of software for the contact center and telephony market, has raised $5M in a funding round, according to the company. The company's software connects the Oracle Service Cloud software, Oracle's CRM suite, with telephony software from Genesys, Cisco, Avaya, and Interactive Intelligence.
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JUNE 8, 2011
Santa Barbara-based Givezooks , a developer of social fundraising software for nonprofits, told its users today that it has launched a new way to allow nonprofits to offer up tickets or sponsorships of their events from Facebook, as well as from their website. READ MORE>>.
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APRIL 3, 2014
Pasadena-based software developer Central Desktop said this morning that it has added software veteran Kumar Vora to its board of directors. Vora is the CEO of Acrolinx, and also had served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Foundational Capital, as well as a VP at Oracle and Adobe. READ MORE>>.
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DECEMBER 12, 2016
Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software — voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design. If you’re a consumer software company your buyer is your user. Why Invest? The reason is simple.
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MARCH 19, 2013
The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”
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OCTOBER 11, 2012
Inktank , the software developer behind the open source Ceph distributed storage project, said Thursday that it has partnered with Citrix Sytsems to provide support for Ceph as part of Citrix CloudPlatform. Citrix CloudPlatform is a software product, commercially supported by Citrix, used for cloud orchestration.
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MARCH 19, 2012
Carlsbad-based BeyondTrust , the developer of identity management and security software, said today that it has named Subbu Sthanu as Vice President, Product Management. and Oracle. Sthanu joins the firm from Novell, and had also served at NetIQ, Vignette Corp.,
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NOVEMBER 19, 2013
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JUNE 13, 2014
Santa Barbara-based enterprise resource planning software developer QAD has appointed a new board member, saying late Thursday that it has added Leslie J. Stretch is President and CEO of Callidus Software, and also had served at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. callidus board executive software' Stretch as a board member.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Camarillo-based DEX Systems , a developer of software used for supply chain management, announced today that it has been selected by Diebold. DEX said that Diebold will purchase the firm's reverse logistics software for an Ohio facility, which is used for repair operations for DEX. Financial terms of the win were not disclosed.
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OCTOBER 19, 2011
San Diego-based MeLLmo , the developer of the Roambi mobile business analytics software, said today that it has opened up an office in Shanghai, to support the Greater China market. Roambi said the new office will be headed by Sean Luangrath, who has previously served at Apple, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. READ MORE>>.
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JANUARY 14, 2016
San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. MindTouch's software provides customer support search tools, product information, and more to end users.
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MARCH 8, 2012
Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of human resources and talent management software-as-a-service, said today that it has agreed to acquire Auckland, New Zealand-based Sonar Limited (Sonar6). Sonar6 develops cloud-based, talent management software focused on small businesses.
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MAY 6, 2010
Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of performance analytics software for the enterprise, reported today that it has hired Phil Rugani as Executive Vice President of Sales and Field Operations. Rugani also served at AXS-One, IBM, FileNet, Oracle, Informix, and Alta Vista. Tags: integrien executive analytics software.
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MAY 28, 2014
Los Angeles-based financial software developer BlackLine Systems has hired its first, Chief Marketing Officer, the company announced today. Downing also previously served at such companies as SAP, Informatica, Oracle, Adobe, Seagate and Hill and Knowlton. The company is backed by private equity firm Silver Lake. READ MORE>>.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
Los Angeles-based Sophoi , which was developing software for intellectual property licensing, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month. in funding from database giant Oracle, which invested in the firm in May of 2007. Tags: oracle property intellectual bankruptcy sophoi. Sophoi had been backed by $17.5M
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AUGUST 19, 2014
San Diego-based ID Analytics , the developer of risk management software and technology, said today that it has named Daniel Rawlings as the company''s Chief Revenue Officer. Rawlings joins the company from Smith Micro Software, where he had been Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Revenue Officer.
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Los Angeles-based NativeTung , a startup developing software for managing translation of web sites into multiple languages, is unveiling itself at the DEMOfall conference today in San Diego. The firm's founders come from Oracle, Yahoo!, Tags: software localization translation nativetung. and PeopleSoft. READ MORE>>.
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OCTOBER 7, 2013
Santa Monica-based software-as-a-service developer Cornerstone OnDemand said this morning that it has added former Eloqua CEO Joe Payne to its board of directors. Cornerstone OnDemand is a developer of software-as-a-service tools for enterprise, human resources and human capital management. READ MORE>>.
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AUGUST 25, 2011
Spotlight , the venture backed provider of software-as-a-service for managing sports and entertainment tickets, said this week that it has moved from Woodland Hills to Calabasas, in expectation of growth in its staffing. Spotlight's software is used to automate corporate ticket management by corporations.
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JANUARY 17, 2012
Calabasas-based SpotlightTMS , the developer of luxury suite and corporate ticket management software, announced today that it has rolled out its software on Salesforce.com's AppExchange. READ MORE>>.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Calabasas-based Spotlight , the developer of ticket management software-as-a-service, said today that it has appointed Richard Dym as its Chief Marketing Officer. Spotlight said its customers now include Comcast, MetLife, Nike, Oracle, Time Warner Cable Media Sales, NBCUniversal, Stanley Black & Decker, and Principal Financial Group.
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FEBRUARY 9, 2010
IVT serves clients such as Oracle, Rohm & Hass, IBM, and NEC particularly for corporate communications, investor relations, and training webcasts. Tags: software webcast capital venture video interactive. IVT was formerly known as Interactive Video Technologies, and last raised funding back in 2006. READ MORE>>.
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NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Calabasas-based Spotlight Ticket Management , the developer of software for managing corporate ticket and suites, reports today that it has been selected by Penske Truck Leasing for managing its suite and ticket assets. Spotlight's software is used by corporate customers, such as Nike, Oracle, NBCUniversal, and others.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Los Angeles-based accounting software developer BlackLine said on Thursday that it has named Marc Huffman as its new Chief Operating Officer. Huffman had previously served as President of Worldwide Sales and Distribution at NetSuite, and also had served at Oracle. Huffman also sites on the board of ChannelAdvisor.
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JANUARY 7, 2021
Los Angeles-based accounting software developer Blackline has promoted Mark Woodhams to the position of Chief Revenue Officer, the company said on Wednesday. BlackLine develops software which automates account reconciliation and other typically manual operations for accounting departments.
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MAY 26, 2017
Tarbet previously served at such companies as UnboundID, RightNow Technologies, and Oracle. LogicMonitor is a developer of cloud-based, performance monitoring software for IT infrastructure. Santa Barbara-based LogicMonitor said Thursday that it has named Michael Tarbet as its new Vice President of Sales. READ MORE>>.
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OCTOBER 9, 2018
Los Angeles-based accounting software developer BlackLine , which has been in expansion mode with its financial automation software, is growing again, with a new joint venture in Japan. READ MORE>>.
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DECEMBER 27, 2010
He has been able to take complicated topics like cloud computing and boil them down into pithy messages like “the end of software as depicted in the simple logo to the right. It emphasizes both cloud computing and salesforce.com’s differentiation – they’re not “software.. Software, software, software.
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JANUARY 15, 2021
Los Angeles-based advertising software and exchange operator The Trade Desk said this week that it has named Michelle Hulst as the company's Chief Operating Offier. According to The Trade Desk, Hulst will be responsible for global operations, data, commercial enablement, and client services in her new role.
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DECEMBER 3, 2008
Irvine-based Analytix On Demand , a provider of business intelligence software, said this morning that it has raised a round of mezzanine funding. Analytix On Demand offers enterprise focused, business intelligence software. Amount of the funding was not disclosed, but came from Private Equity Management Group. READ MORE>>
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APRIL 23, 2018
He also has served at Siebel Systems (now Oracle). Bonfire Ventures focuses on early-stage startups in the software area, focused on B2B software. Queener had served as VP of Field Operations, SVP Operations, SVP Products, EVP/GM of Data Cloud, and EVP/GM of Marketing Cloud at Salesforce, among other titles.
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