Tableau Software Inc. (NYSE:DATA) is the middle of a strong day, up more $3 thanks to a research note from Baird. The research firm upped the application software company to an "Outperform" from a "Neutral" rating while adding a fresh, new price-target of $95 ��potential upside to target of 20.67% as we type.
Tableau Software provides various business analytics software products in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It offers Tableau Desktop, a self-service analytics product that empowers people to access and analyze data independently; and Tableau Server, a business intelligence platform with data management, scalability, and security to foster the sharing of data, as well as to improve the dissemination of information in an organization, and promote enhanced decision-making.
Top 10 Beverage Companies To Watch In Right Now: inContact Inc.(SAAS)
inContact, Inc. provides cloud-based contact center software services and network connectivity in the United States. Its solutions include inContact ACD, an automatic call distributor; inContact CTI, a computer telephony integration that integrates with customer data servers to provide agents pre-populated customer data; inContact IVR, an interactive voice response solution to create specialized call flows; and inContact Integrations for integration of various hardware and software solutions already in place at customer sites. The company also offers inContact ECHO that gathers the opinion of the customer and presents the analysis of the feedback directly to supervisors and agents; inContact Workforce Management, which forecasts demand, schedules workforce, analyzes and optimizes staffing, and reports real-time adherence in contact centers; inContact Quality Monitoring that provides insights into agent performance and customer satisfaction; and InContact Screen Recording, which provides compliance level screen recording functionality for voice channel interactions. In addition, it provides inContact eLearning that offers targeted, prioritized training, communications, and testing to the agent?s desktop during dips in call volumes; and inContact Network Connectivity, which includes time division multiplexing and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) connectivity, and toll-free and local-number services. Further, inContact, Inc. offers professional services, as well as operates as a domestic and international long distance reseller and aggregator. The company was formerly known as UCN, Inc. and changed its name to inContact, Inc. in January 2009. inContact, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By jaggom]
Approximately 35% of the respondents cited that the internal or private cloud projects still dominated cloud-related activity. The public cloud services such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) activity in enterprises also doubled in the range of 30% and 33% in just the past six months.
- [By James Oberweis]
While revenues grew 34% in 2013, the transition from license to Systems-as-a-Service (SaaS) masked a faster underlying growth rate.
As the SaaS business continues to grow, the firm will have better revenue visibility in the years to come and fairly attractive margin expansion possibilities as the business matures.
- [By James Miller Phd]
Within the cloud computing applications, Salesforce has become a leading supplier and platform vendor, positioning itself in a strong position among other cloud application providers. Currently, through Sales Cloud, the company�� most popular product, it has succeeded in expanding its addressable market towards the purchase of Service Cloud as well. Providing different on-demand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), such as the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Chatter applications, it allows customers to improve communication and sales to their respective customers. Moreover, it offers other platforms such as The Force.com Platform, or Heroku Platform, and developer tools like Database.com and The AppExchange, enabling its users to customize its applications.
- [By Damian Illia]
Since 1973 Compuware Corp (CPWR) has been providing software solutions both on-premise and through a software as a service (SaaS) model, as well as professional technical services related to mobile application developments and mainframe systems. The company reported revenues of $944.5 million in fiscal 2013, working through four segments: Performance Management (APM), Mainframe, Changepoint and Uniface. Through the APM segment Compuware provides services to maximize efficiency of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Mainframe solutions are designed for organizations which require high developer productivity and enhanced service quality at lower costs, and through Changepoint it provides Professional Services Automation (PSA) and Project Portfolio Management services (PPM). Uniface, a rapid application development platform, creates renews and integrates enterprise applications. Currently, more than 7,100 companies, including many of the world's largest organizations, depend on Compuware and our new generation approach to performance management to do just that.
Top International Companies To Own In Right Now: Pacific WebWorks Inc (PWEB)
Pacific WebWorks, Inc. (Pacific WebWorks), incorporated on May 18, 1987, is an application service provider and software development firm that develops business software technologies and services for business merchants and organizations using Internet and other technologies. The Company�� product family provides tools for Website creation, management and maintenance, electronic business storefront hosting and Internet payment systems for the small- to medium-sized business and organization. Its four wholly owned subsidiaries include Intellipay, Inc., TradeWorks Marketing, Inc., FundWorks, Inc and Pacific WebWorks International, LTD.
Visual WebTools Version 4.1 (V4.1)
V4.1 is a suite of software programs that fit together to perform the basic business functions that are effective on the Internet. The products in this suite include WebWizard, ClipOn Commerce, WebContacts, WebChannels, Web Profiling tool, WebStats, Auction Connection and Increase My Margin. WebWizard is a Web page design program that possesses a user interface and templates for the novice, has a functionality for Web design professionals. In 2010, the Company released WebWizard 5 and it incorporates site components like tables, frames, flash and other multimedia capabilities in a straightforward, menu driven process.
The Company�� customers can manage their sites' layout, colors, contents, tables and graphics. WebWizard includes a library of hundreds of graphics that are freely accessible by its customers. WebWizard allows its customers to create, update and modify their Websites. ClipOn Commerce is an e-storefront and product management system, coupled with shopping cart technology. ClipOn Commerce allows the Company�� customers to build an Internet storefront. They can create a product catalog, organize and search products by unlimited categories and import/export to and from their database. ClipOn Commerce is designed to function with a third-party merchant account and is integrated with t! he Company�� Intellipay payment system, which allows its clients to accept all major credit cards online. ClipOn Commerce has support for QuickBooks accounting software enabling the Company�� customers to update between their accounting records and Internet storefront. ClipOn Commerce also features uninterrupted power supply (UPS) shipping integration.
WebContacts is a contact management program. Companies that use the Company�� system can utilize WebContacts to organize information about all the entities they do business with, including customers, suppliers and distributors. WebContacts will also enable them to capture information about people who visit their Website, if those visitors elect to supply contact information at the site. WebChannels is an e-mail distribution program that enables Pacific WebWorks��customers to send customized e-mails in either plaintext or hyper text markup language (HTML) format to their WebContacts database of visitors. By using WebChannels, a client can send out a weekly newsletter, coupons or special offers to an entire customer base, certain visitor types or to a segment of their customers.
Web profiling tool is a form and survey creation tool that helps capture feedback and demographic information from customers and Website visitors. The Company�� clients can create customizable forms, surveys and interactive questionnaires. The Web profiling tool includes a catalog of pre-designed questions, such as education level, hobbies and satisfaction level. The profiling forms may also be custom created by the Company�� customers. WebStats enables the Company�� customers to analyze visitor activities on their Websites in order to track pages viewed, hits and time of access. WebStats is a statistics program that provides detailed reports and graphs related to referring pages, geographic location of visitors, browsers and the operating systems Website visitors are using, what Web pages generate hits and what pages are the most popular. Au! ction Con! nection is a module that allows Visual WebTools users to list inventory items with eBay. Increase My Margin is a tool that allows eBay users to analyze information and data related to the sale of thousands of products sold on eBay over a period of time.
Intellipay Payment System
The Intellipay payment system group of products offers payment technologies for business-to-business and business-to-customer uses on the Internet and in physical store locations. These products allow the Company�� customers to accept real time credit card payments from their Website, Internet appliances, kiosks or at remote locations through their Nextel cell phone or at the physical point of sale. Point-of-sale professionals provide technical support and ePayment professionals help the business locate an Internet-approved merchant account if needed. Once customers enter the necessary data in a secure form, Intellipay processes the transaction in real-time (2 to 5 seconds) and returns the customer back to the business site. Intellipay also provides methods for enterprise-level businesses to link Intellipay products, services and features into their e-commerce Websites and transmit transactional data for use in back office systems.
The Company�� ePayment System supports all major card types, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club and JCB. It also provides support for Visa and MasterCard debit (check) cards and Level Two corporate/commercial cards through various bank networks. Transaction types include normal authorizations, pre-authorizations intended for delayed settlement, force allowing a transaction authorized offline (possibly a voice authorization) to be settled, credits for refunds, and Intellipay's address verification system (AVS) allows merchants to retrieve a score and verify the account validity. This Intellipay product allows the Company�� customers to control transaction level behavior depending on AVS scores and duplicate transaction attemp! t detecti! on. Intellipay also automatically settles merchant batches nightly so its customers are freed from forcing settlement via manual or programmatic methods. The Intellipay system is transportable meaning that a customer can switch Website hosting companies, move between e-commerce software programs or change to or from many merchant account providers.
ExpertLink is Intellipay's connection protocol for high-volume Internet businesses requiring high velocity real-time transaction authorizations linked to their own secure Website and/or back office systems. ExpertLink is a standards-based secure communications method allowing Web developers and application developers to build in the ePayment processing and various features, including batch management commands, duplicate transaction detection and management. The Company�� customers purchase ExpertLink or LinkSmart, and both come with Smart Terminal and the Secure Account Management System (SAMS).
LinkSmart provides the Company�� online customers with ePayment features with minimal technical installation on their side. With LinkSmart, the Company�� customer does not need to pay for installation and maintenance of secure servers since LinkSmart serves the secure, customizable payment pages for them. LinkSmart offloads mission-critical, e-commerce tasks from the merchant.
Smart Terminal allows Pacific WebWorks��customers to securely log into their Intellipay account from any Internet browser and authorize manual transactions and orders they have received through offline methods. Smart Terminal supports transactions, including normal authorizations, authorization-only for delayed settlement, settlement for non-Intellipay authorized transactions, credits and partial credits. Most clients receive Smart Terminal along with LinkSmart or ExpertLink, but Smart Terminal can also be purchased as a standalone product.
Secure Account Management System (SAMS) allows Intellipay customers to securely log into Intellip! ay's SAMS! from any Web browser to configure and control various Intellipay components and behaviors. Customers can also view transaction histories for any day in the past 180 day period. IntelliPay Desktop Terminal (IDT) brings all of the functionality of a virtual terminal application to the customers��desktop, while supporting hardware, such as a card reader and receipt printer. IntelliPay Wireless Terminal allows a merchant to accept either swiped or keyed transactions using a Nextel Cellular/Data phone using a card reader.
The Company competes with AuthorizeNet and VeriSign.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By CRWE]
Today, PWEB remains (0.00%) +0.000 at $.0185 with 2,891 shares in play thus far (ref. google finance Delayed: 9:34AM EDT July 19, 2013).
Pacific WebWorks, Inc. previously reported the following business update. For the first six months of 2013 the Company has focused on revitalizing its internet technology business model. As previously reported, Pacific WebWorks has expanded its software suite and established a framework for reaching new markets with its software products. The Company believes there is strong demand for its products and is aggressively pursuing the opportunity to obtain new customers through a variety of marketing methods.
Lance Bell, CEO, stated, ��e are excited to report a number of accomplishments during the first six months of 2013. We have rounded out our management team, finalized our infrastructure and have begun to market our software products. We are encouraged by the initial results of these efforts.��/p>
- [By CRWE]
Today, PWEB remains (0.00%) +0.000 at $.0231 with 1,000 shares in play thus far (ref. google finance Delayed: 9:30AM EDT July 16, 2013).
Pacific WebWorks, Inc. previously reported the following business update. For the first six months of 2013 the Company has focused on revitalizing its internet technology business model. As previously reported, Pacific WebWorks has expanded its software suite and established a framework for reaching new markets with its software products. The Company believes there is strong demand for its products and is aggressively pursuing the opportunity to obtain new customers through a variety of marketing methods.
Lance Bell, CEO, stated, ��e are excited to report a number of accomplishments during the first six months of 2013. We have rounded out our management team, finalized our infrastructure and have begun to market our software products. We are encouraged by the initial results of these efforts.��/p>
Top International Companies To Own In Right Now: Tessera Technologies Inc.(TSRA)
Tessera Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, licenses, and delivers miniaturization technologies and products for electronic devices worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Intellectual Property and DigitalOptics. The Intellectual Property segment offers semiconductor packaging technologies, which create mechanical and electrical connection between semiconductor chips and systems, such as computers and communication equipments through connection to printed circuit boards. The DigitalOptics segment provides mobile camera module solutions in categories, including actuator technologies, image enhancement solutions, and wafer level optics that can be applied to mobile phones and other consumer electronic products. It also offers customized micro-optic lenses from diffractive and refractive optical elements to integrated micro-optical subassemblies. This segment serves customers in digital still cameras and mobile handsets markets, as well as semicon ductor lithography, high-end communication routers, military and defense, and barcode scanners markets. Tessera Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rich Duprey]
Troubled Tessera Technologies (NASDAQ: TSRA ) announced today�that it has named a new interim chief financial officer, John Allen, who was previously the company controller. He will immediately assume the new role as his predecessor C. Richard Neely, Jr., who was only appointed to the position this past August, saw his tenure come to an abrupt end today. The press release announcing the change didn't even wish him luck in his endeavors.
- [By Lauren Pollock]
Tessera Technologies Inc.(TSRA) named its interim chief executive, Thomas Lacey, to the top post Tuesday, bringing to a close a months-long search for a permanent leader.
- [By Jayson Derrick]
Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA) announced a multi-year patent licensing agreement with Micron that will cover its chip packaging IP portfolio and the two companies will also explore other possible joint development efforts. Shares of Tessera hit new 52-week highs of $26.61 before closing the day at $25.41, up 9.43 percent.
- [By Eric Volkman]
In the latest development in a fight over the future of Tessera Technologies (NASDAQ: TSRA ) , the company has replaced its chief executive. The new CEO, Thomas Lacey, will serve in an interim capacity until a replacement is found. His predecessor, Richard Hill, will continue to serve as the firm's board chairman. Tessera Tech is currently conducting a search for a more permanent CEO.
Top International Companies To Own In Right Now: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated(RBA)
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated, an industrial auctioneer, sells various equipment to on-site and online bidders. The company, through unreserved public auctions, sells a range of used and unused industrial assets, including equipment, trucks, and other assets utilized in the construction, transportation, agricultural, material handling, mining, forestry, petroleum, and marine industries. It also provides Internet bidding services, which facilitate customers access to live and online auction participation. The company primarily serves buyers and sellers of equipment, trucks, and other industrial assets; rental companies and brokers; finance companies; and truck and equipment dealers. As of December 31, 2011, it operated approximately 110 locations in approximately 25 countries, including 43 auction sites worldwide. The company was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Chris Hill]
Caterpillar's (NYSE: CAT ) �first-quarter profit�fell 45% and the company lowered guidance. But its CEO said that his confidence is at a two-year high and sales in China rose. Should investors buy the stock? In this installment, our analysts discuss Caterpillar's future and explain why Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE: RBA ) could be a hidden winner.
- [By Canadian Value]
Australians will remember 2013 in part for the fall of some of our national corporate icons. The Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore are unlikely to be produced domestically going forward, and Qantas has unsuccessfully sought subsidies from the Federal government. Due to elevated cost structures and a high exchange rate, Australia Inc. is increasingly unable to compete in a fiercely competitive global market.High on the Reserve Bank of Australia�� (RBA) Christmas wish-list this year will be a lower exchange rate and a business community more willing to loosen its purse strings in 2014. Unfortunately, the first wish will likely need to be granted before the second can be realized. We expect the RBA will need to keep policy accommodative over the cyclical horizon and 2014 will be a critical transition year for the Australian economy.Over the year through September 2013, real growth in business investment outside the mining sector slowed to almost zero (0.5% to be precise, as shown in Figure 1). Why has Australia Inc. invested so little into its businesses this year? As RBA Deputy Governor Philip Lowe commented in a speech in late October, the lack of business investment in recent years is actually a global phenomenon across the developed world.�Although hard to quantify, this ��nvestment drought,��as Lowe described it, has likely been influenced by a lingering risk aversion after the financial crisis as well as the political uncertainty that has been common in many developed countries over the past few years. But in Australia another variable has also been restraining non-mining capital expenditure, and that is the elevated exchange rate.As Figure 1 shows, changes in the real trade-weighted exchange rate have historically led changes in non-mining business investment. As the real exchange rate appreciates, domestic products and services become less competitive relative to foreign goods and services, both at home and abroad. And of course, the reverse is true w
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