Business Intelligence

Many of the processes in the shipping industry have been in use for years, but new technologies could dramatically change how the industry operates, and the ways in which it moves goods around the globe.

Hybrid cloud storage vendor Avere Systems has been scooped up by Microsoft for tighter integration with Azure.

Amazon.com Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., two of Oracle Corp.’s biggest customers, are actively working to replace Oracle software running on crucial business systems with lower cost open-source database software.