Posts tagged with 'enterprise cloud'

Salesforce.com acquires 'human capital management' company Rypple

Last week, I listed the 'enterprise cloud' as one of the five things to watch in 2012.

My rationale was straightforward; while the cloud has been a hot topic in the consumer space for the past several years, there's increasing activity in the enterprise space as major software vendors like Oracle and SAP move to ensure that they don't get left behind.

Salesforce.com, one of the first big players in the enterprise cloud space, didn't wait for the new year to make a new move of its own. Yesterday, it announced that it was acquiring human capital management SaaS Rypple for an undisclosed sum.