Last year it launched a service that lets customers accelerate the delivery of their online games and software as a service.
"Adaptive Insights is an industry leader with its Business Planning Cloud platform, and together with Workday, we will help customers accelerate their finance transformation in the cloud," said Aneel Bhusri, Co-Founder and CEO, Workday, in a statement.
"This funding, as well as OpenView's operational expertise and support, will enable us to expand our current customer relationships, further build out our sales and marketing teams, and develop new solutions that help customers accelerate their move to the cloud," said Jeff Dickerson, CEO of Sonian in a statement.
The company said operating income this year might fall by as much as two-thirds, as a drop in sales to business customers accelerates and prices for consumer phone calls plunge.
Will Verizon and the other Bells be able to rapidly scale down costs if the exodus of wired customers accelerates?
Instead, it calls the deal "an exciting opportunity" for its customers, promising "accelerated deployment of existing and new innovative products and services".
Copycats drove up the price of acquiring customers, which accelerated start-ups' burn rates and prompted shopper "deal fatigue".
Repeat and new-customer demand accelerated through the first quarter, Priceline said.
We are confident that their world class messaging and operations infrastructure will enable banks, credit card issuers and brokerage customers to accelerate the use of the mobile device as a channel for 2-way customer interaction," said Joseph Salesky, CEO of ClairMail.
I.B.M., he said, has the financial resources and relationships with corporate customers to accelerate the adoption of its cloud technology.
An additional $69 million cash payment to LIPA by KeySpan could be used to lower rates, give rebates to customers and accelerate repayment of $4 billion in debt related to the shuttered Shoreham nuclear power plant, which the authority inherited from Lilco.
