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Salesforce.com Price Target Cut On Revenue Headwinds

Salesforce.com (CRM) investors received a note of caution Thursday, as an analyst cut his price target on Salesforce stock just three days after the company launched its first data analytics visualization software product, which is designed to take on rivals including Tableau Software (DATA) and Oracle (ORCL) in the fast-growing data analytics market. The product, called Wave, was the subject of the keynote by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the…

Tableau, ServiceNow Growth Soars, But Stocks Fall

ServiceNow and Tableau Software have found that sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be among the fastest-growing kids on the block. The pair in late July posted Q2 earnings that soundly beat Wall Street expectations, as did their revenue guidance — and both stocks have suffered since. ServiceNow (NOW), which sells software to help companies manage their IT service desk operations, reported after the close on July 30. Tableau (DATA), a maker of data

Manhattan Continues Growth In Warehouse Market

Manhattan Associates is proving to be a survivor in more ways than one. The company has found a way to compete with larger rivals Oracle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP) in warehouse management software while also side-stepping the recent sell-off in high-growth but little-or-no-profit software companies such as Tableau Software (DATA) and Splunk (SPLK). Manhattan Associates’ (MANH) stock is down from an all-time high of 40.79 touched on March 17, but the