Startup Spotlight: Lacuna alerts IT staff of potential problems before outages hit

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Pinpointing technical glitches before they occur is kind of like finding a needle in a haystack. But Kirkland-based Lacuna Systems — led by former employees of Amazon.com, Classmates.com and aQuantive — believes that its new Indico platform can save IT managers time and money by locating problems before they arise. It does this by intelligently analyzing… Read More…

Apptio’s valuation pegged at $600 million: Could IPO come next?

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New details are emerging about Apptio’s huge $50 million venture round, which closed six months ago from T. Rowe Price, Madrona Venture Group and others. Fortune’s Dan Primack reports today that Apptio’s valuation at the time was a whopping $700 million, and likely has climbed higher in recent months. We reached out to Apptio, and… Read More…

Winshuttle buys ShareVis to help non-techies tap into business apps

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One of the hidden success stories of the Seattle software community is Winshuttle, which has quietly grown into a powerful player in helping business users easily work with SAP products directly from Excel, SharePoint and other products. And now Winshuttle is bulking up, buying Carlsbad, California-based ShareVis in a deal of undisclosed size. Like Winshuttle,… Read More…