There is Salesforce.com for sales professionals, numerous off-the-shelf packages for finance and HR professionals and thousands of apps for several other enterprise utilities.
With its "Flipboard-like dashboard" and easy to use tools, the startup is filling a crucial void for marketers at a time when there are numerous off-the-shelf packages for finance and HR professionals and thousands of apps for several other enterprise utilities.
For many large and necessary enterprises (utilities; essential centralized manufacturing; big, capital-intensive tech industries; and so on) public ownership may be the only way to ensure that they grow no bigger than they need to be to fulfill their mission.
EMeter, a small San Mateo, Calif.-based company, has built an enterprise class utility information management solution based on the assumption that utilities will want to have better control over their data and be able to control their pricing and billing with more intelligence.
"Selling off a large state-owned enterprise or utilities to private ownership will not necessarily lead to great efficiency and ultimate benefits to consumers unless there is a regulator in place to enforce rules and ensure fair competition," the bank said.
Hewlett-Packard snapped up security software firm ArcSight and enterprise-level utility storage company 3Par during a 2010 buying spree.
After 1945 the communist government nationalized large landholdings, industrial enterprises, public utilities, and other resources and launched a strenuous process of industrialization.
The Bank and the I.M.F. have been requiring these countries to accept "structural adjustment," which includes opening markets to foreign firms and privatizing state enterprises, including utilities.
