Nearly 14 years after Zend started its effort to build a PHP competitor to the .NET and JavaEE development frameworks, the company is gearing up to contribute the Zend Framework to seed the new Luminas open-source project at the Linux…
In recent months, there has been a brewing conflict between large cloud providers (principally Amazon) and various open source enterprise application vendors. The application vendors have argued that Amazon and other large cloud providers are benefiting substantially from open source…
The Adobe Summit 2019 kicked off on March 26 with Adobe making multiple announcements across its application services portfolio. Adobe announced new features and enhancements for its Marketing, Advertising and Analytics Cloud services, which collectively are all part of the…
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a well understood and defined category of software that aims to help organizations manage customer interactions and relationships. Enterprise application vendor Altify defines itself as a “post-CRM” company focused on a category of software that…
MariaDB announced its new Enterprise Server platform on Feb. 26, providing organizations that rely on the database platform with increased quality and security alongside high-end features. Among the new features in MariaDB Enterprise Server are data-at-rest encryption and enhanced data…
Database technology provides a foundational role in modern applications, and one of the emerging database technologies of the last few years has been Redis. Redis in recent months has been the subject of a fair bit of controversy as well,…
At the core of many modern enterprise apps and services is a fundamental need for data analytics. It’s a need that Databricks and the open source Apache Spark project that it leads both help to fill. It’s also a need…
There are a lot of different types of tools needed to enable modern enterprise apps. The ability to process data streams in real time is one such needed tool, and it’s what the open source Apache Flink project enables. Apache…
The basic premise of open source software is that the software is made available under an open permissive license, as defined by the Open Source Initiative’s Open Source Definition. Open source software doesn’t, however, necessarily mean software that is available…
At the start of a new year, many people make resolutions about things to change and improve. It’s also a time for predictions about what is likely to come in the year ahead. In the world of Enterprise Applications, several…
Ottawa, Canada based Corel Corporation has a diverse portfolio of both consumer and enterprise applications brands, and is now expanding into the remote application and virtualization space. Corel announced on December 20 that it has acquired the Parallels business, which…
Oracle is continuing to grow its business, largely on the back of expanding software and cloud based services. The company reported its second quarter fiscal 2019 financial results on Dec. 17, with revenue coming in unchanged at $9.6 billion for…
There was a time when Lotus Notes and Domino were the cornerstones of IBM’s software portfolio, enabling enterprise collaboration and productivity. Those days are now in the past, as IBM is divesting those assets, along with a number of other…
Salesforce continues to grow as its customers find value in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor’s platforms. Salesforce reported its third quarter fiscal 2018 results on November 27, with revenue coming in at $3.39 billion, up 26 percent year-over-year. Looking ahead to…
As Amazon’s big annual cloud customer event, re:Invent in Las Vegas, is set to get underway, lots of enterprise application vendors are eager to talk about how they use the cloud too. One such vendor is Alfresco, which was originally…
SAP announced on Nov. 11 that it is acquiring privately held Qualtrics International in a deal valued at $8 billion. Qualtrics was planning on having an initial public offering (IPO) in the coming months. Qualtrics is in the business of…
OpenText announced a series of platform updates on Nov. 7 that expand the capabilities of the company’s enterprise information management (EIM) technologies. Among the updates are the OpenText Release 16 Enhancement Pack 5 (EP5) milestone and the OpenText Business Network…
It has been a busy few weeks for HashiCorp, with the company raising new money and announcing new projects. On Nov. 1, the company announced a massive $100 million Series D round of funding lead by IVP, with participation from…
Oracle announced a series of new enterprise application efforts and innovation during its OpenWorld 2018 event, which wrapped up on Oct. 25. Among the many announcements made by Oracle was a next-generation cloud infrastructure, updated Oracle autonomous database, Netsuite improvements,…
When it comes to enterprise apps, email — love it or hate it — has long been a foundational element. In the modern era, email has become increasingly extensible, thanks to companies like SendGrid, which Twilio is now acquiring. Twilio…
In the world of Hadoop big data, Hortonworks and Cloudera have been going head to head in a highly competitive market — but no more. In a surprise announcement on Oct. 3, the two erstwhile rivals announced they would merge…
Trust, innovation and AI, equality and sustainability, personal empowerment and mindfulness — those are the key themes that Marc Benioff, founder and co-CEO of Salesforce said defined the 2018 Dreamforce event which ran from Sept. 25 – 28 in San…
In the world of modern enterprise applications, APIs are king, enabling organization to extend and integrate different capabilities rapidly. Among the companies trying to make it easier for organization to build and manage APIs is Kong, which officially launched its…
Adobe is moving forward on multiple fronts to grow and improve multiple aspects of its expanding application portfolio. During Adobe’s third quarter fiscal 2018 earnings call on Sept. 13, Adobe’s president and CEO, Shantanu Narayen, outlined the success the company…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is on a mission. The mission is not just to grow his own company, but to help grow the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in an ethical way that helps to advance humanity and enable what…
According to analyst firm IDC, the market for big data and business analytics (BDA) technologies will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11.9 percent over a five-year period (2017-2022). IDC has pegged BDA revenues at $166 billion for…
In the world of enterprise collaboration apps, few technologies have become as pervasive in recent years as Slack. Slack has its share of competitors, but at least one of them is now bowing out, with Slack announcing that it is…
In a surprising move, Broadcom announced on July 11 that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CA Technologies, in a deal valued at $18.9 billion. Broadcom is best known for its silicon technologies, which including ARM-based processors.…
In the world of DevOps, Puppet is one of the foundational companies. It provides multiple products, including its namesake open source Puppet configuration management technology. The market and demand for enterprise configuration management is a growing one, and Puppet is…
Blockchain is one of the hottest areas of enterprise application development in 2018, providing organizations with a distributed ledger system that can have myriad application possibilities. While the opportunities for blockchain are limitless, many organizations have been limited in their…
As enterprises increasingly adopt DevOp as model for enterprise application development and deployment, they look for continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) tools. Few tools are as widely deployed for CI/CD as the open-source Jenkins project, led by CloudBees. On June 27,…
Salesforce.com completed its acquisitio…
Software vendor BMC is being acquired, again. On May 29, BMC announced that it is being purchased by global investment firm KKR. Financial terms of the deal have not been publicly disclosed, though a person familiar with the deal reportedly…
CollabNet VersionOne has updated four of its enterprise application development and management suites as part of the company’s Spring 2018 update. CollabNet and VersionOne merged in August 2017, bringing together the enterprise application development portfolios of the two companies. The…
Automation in the modern IT landscape has often been equated with orchestration of high-level infrastructure processes. There is another side to automation as well, with process automation for business applications. On May 15, WalkMe announced its new WalkMe Automation tool…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup Allegro.AI announced on April 25 that it has raised $11 million in a Series A round of funding. The company is developing a deep-learning-as-a-service platform. The new funding round was led by MizMaa Ventures, with participation…
NoSQL database startup ScyllaDB announced on April 25 that it has raised $10 million in a Series C round of funding. The new funding round was led by TLV Partners and included that participation of Bessemer Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures,…
As enterprises of all sizes increasingly move to data-driven application architectures and insights, Cloudera is seeing its fortunes grow. The big data vendor reported full-year fiscal 2018 financial results on April 3, with revenue coming in at $367.4 million for…
Customer relationship management (CRM) software has long been used by large organizations to help improve customer satisfaction and boost sales, but it has often been out of the reach of small business. Salesforce is now aiming to bring its CRM…
One of the cornerstone of modern enterprise applications for the past decade has been the content management system (CMS) market. While there are many players in the enterprise CMS space, one name stands alone as the dominant CMS across the…
The fourth industrial revolution has begun, according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and it’s his company that is at the forefront of the movement. Salesforce reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2018 financial results on Feb. 28, passing new…
In the world of enterprise applications, few (if any) frameworks have ever been as widely adopted and deployed as Java, and specifically, the enterprise flavors of Java. The first big incarnation of enterprise Java was known as J2EE. In 2006,…
Red Hat is perhaps best known for its Enterprise Linux platform, but it has also been a player in the business process management (BPM) space for more than a decade. On Feb. 21, Red Hat Decision Manager 7 was officially…
Many modern enterprises have adopted the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack to collect, process, search and visualize data. At the core of the ELK stack is the open-source Logstash project which defines itself as a server-side data processing pipeline –…
Alfresco Software has been developing its suite of enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) technology since the company was founded back in June 2005. On Feb. 8, Alfresco announced that it was being acquired by private equity…
SAP has aggressive plans for the future, which will see more workloads moving to the cloud and increased competition across multiple areas of the enterprise application world. For the last eight years, William McDermott has held the post of CEO…
As organizations increasingly turn to the cloud to deploy and run Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), there is a need to understand and optimize all the different apps and services that running. That’s where startup Zylo has found its niche. Zylo was started…
By definition, the cloud is supposed to enable elastic services that can scale up and down as needed. When it comes to application delivery though, scaling up and down hasn’t always been as easy as it should be. On Jan.…
Apple started off 2018 by acquiring privately held app tools startup Buddybuild on Jan. 4. Buddybuild is a Vancouver, Canada-based mobile app tools startup that was founded in 2015 and had raised approximately $8.8 million to date. Financial terms of…
When looking to build and deploy enterprise applications in 2018, NodeSource and its investors are betting that many will choose to use Node.js. Node.js is a widely deployed open source JavaScript framework that NodeSource supports with its commercial N|Solid platform.…