As 2017 comes to close, it’s that time of year to think ahead about what’s yet to come next year. In the world of enterprise applications, including business intelligence (BI), customer relationship management (CRM), big data and application development that…
Stream processing technology that takes flows of data and enables use by apps was a strong trend in 2017 that will continue into 2018. There are multiple ways that organizations can use stream processing with different services and open-source projects…
In the world of big data, one project has long loomed larger than all the rest — Hadoop. The open source Apache Hadoop project provides the core framework on which dozens of other big data efforts rely. The Apache Hadoop…
Among the newest areas of application development is augmented reality (AR), where normal everyday life gets overlaid with technical information, content or media. Building AR apps hasn’t been easy, which is why Amazon on Nov. 27 announced its new Sumerian…
Salesforce has made a name for itself by helping its customers succeed with multiple applications delivered as a service from the cloud. At the company’s Dreamforce event that occurred the first week of November, Salesforce made a series of announcements…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest areas in technology today, but enterprise application developers often struggle to figure out how to integrate the technology. A new open-source effort that is set to debut in early 2018 could change…
In the modern enterprise apps world, distributed streaming data is a core component, and perhaps no other technology is as widely used for that purpose as is Apache Kafka. On Nov. 1, the Apache Kafka 1.0.0 release officially debuted, marking…
Hashicorp announced on Oct. 24 that it has raised a news Series C round of funding, bringing in $40 million. The Series C round was led by GGV Capital and Redpoint, and it included the participation of Mayfield and True…
SAP reported its third quarter fiscal 2017 financial results on Oct. 19, demonstrating the positive impact of the enterprise application software firm’s move to the cloud. For the quarter, revenue was reported at €5.6B for a four percent year-over-year gain.…
At its OracleWorld event, Oracle announced multiple new enterprise applications and services, including the Oracle 18c database, a blockchain cloud service, security services and artificial intelligence infused apps for the cloud. The Oracle 18c database is the latest iteration of…
Back in September 2016, Oracle first announced the open-source MySQL 8.0.0 milestone release and has been quietly iterating and developing the next generation database ever since. On Sept. 25, at long last Oracle debuted the first official Release Candidate (RC)…
Real-time analytics platform vendor startup Incorta announced on Sept.19 that it has raised an additional $15 million in funding. The company had previously raised $10 million in May 2016. The new round of funding was led by Kleiner Perkins and…
Oracle has found a familiar home for its Java Enterprise Edition and Glassfish server technologies. That home is the Eclipse Foundation, which is home to the eponymous Eclipse Java IDE. Oracle first announced its intention to spin out JavaEE with…
Big Data vendor MapR Technologies announced on Sept. 5 that it had raised a new equity round of funding, bringing in $56 million. Total funding to date for MapR now stands at approximately $250 million since the company was founded…
Salesforce is one of the most successful companies in the history of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology and has just surpassed a major milestone. On Aug. 22, Salesforce announced record quarterly earnings as the company surpassed the $10 billion revenue…
Java on the client side has had open-source options, and there has been the Java Community Process (JCP) as well – But what about Java EE? Oracle is now openly talking about moving the Java EE process to a more…
Building a full platform for real-time data analytics often involved cobbling together multiple open-source projects to get all the requirement components. Typically enterprise don’t want to build their own platform, but tend to prefer integrated solution that have already done…
Collecting data is one thing, but making sense of it with natural language queries is quite another. On August 9, Business Intelligence and Analytics firm Tableau acquired ClearGraph in a bid to help improve the way that organizations search and…
Getting value out of data is something that all organizations are trying to do with as much efficiency as possible. Startup Insight Engine is aiming to help organizations with that challenge, thanks to a new $15.8 million Series A round…
The open-source Linkerd service mesh is a popular project that is now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Among the leaders and primary contributors to Linkerd is startup Buoyant which has raised $10.5 million in a Series A…
Machine data analytics platform vendor Sumo Logic is aiming to grow its business, thanks to a new $75 million round of funding. The new funding round was led by Sapphire Ventures and included the participation of Accel Partners, DFJ Growth,…
MongoDB got its start as an open-source NoSQL database and has grown to become a widely deployed cloud backend as well. This week, MongoDB announced its new Stitch service for backend integration as a service, as well as its Atlas…
Cloud-based Enterprise Asset Management vendor Nuvolo announced on June 22 that it has raised a new $10 million round of funding. The company was founded in 2013 and had previously raised $2 million in seed funding. The Series A funding…
Big Data vendor Hortonworks used the DataWorks Summit/Hadoop Summit this week as the venue to announce product and service updates that further enable the company’s Big Data platform. The new Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) 3.0 platform is what the company refers…
Enterprise software and develop tools vendors Atlassian has made a name for itself over the last several years as a premier provider of enterprise DevOps collaboration tools. In what in hindsight must seem an obvious move, Atlassian is now bundling…
Big Data vendor Cloudera had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on April 28 and on June 8 reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company. For the quarter, Cloudera reported revenue of $79.6 million, which is a 41 percent…
There are a number of different ways to continuously build and deploy application code to the cloud. The Spinnaker project was originally started by Netflix and was joined by Google that helped to expand and make the effort open-source in…
For a generation of IT users, the name Citrix is typically synonymous with remote desktop access. In the pre-cloud era, the remote access was from outside of the office to a data center, but in the modern mobile and cloud…
Salesforce announced its first quarter fiscal 2018 financial results on May 18, once again showing strong gains across all of its business units. For the quarter, Salesforce reported revenue of $2.39 billion, for a 25 percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward,…
VMware is aiming to advance its end-user computing portfolio with the acquisition of Apteligent. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Apteligent provides application performance monitoring and visiblity for mobile software. The privately-held company was founded in 2011 under…
Cockroach Labs, the lead vendor behind the open-source Cockroach Labs SQL database, had a very busy week. On May 9, Cockroach DB was on the keynote stage at the OpenStack Summit in Boston, and on May 10, Cockroach Labs announced…
Managing the complex myriad of tasks and contractors that are required to manage facilities is not something that should be left to a simple spreadsheet. It’s a task that SaaS application vendor ServiceChannel has taken on with its Service Automation…
Engine Yard, a company that first made a name for itself as a leader in the Ruby on Rails (RoR) community, is being acquired by Crossover. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Crossover is a bit…
The open-source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has many different processes, including one for how a new project can be incubated, mature and eventually graduate to become a Top-Level Project. Today the ASF announced that the Fineract banking platform has achieved…
Container data services vendor Portworx announced on April 5 that it has raised $20 million in a new Series B round of funding. The funding will be used by the company to grow marketing, sales and development efforts. The new…
Application Programming Interface (API) gateway vendor Mashape announced a new $18 million Series B round of funding on March 23, bringing total funding to date for the company to $26.1 million since the company was founded in 2010. The new…
Back in September 2015, Cloudius Systems pivoted, rebranding itself as ScyllaDB. When Cloudius Systems was founded, the company was all about its OSv operating system for the cloud, but as ScyllaDB, the focus is on the company’s eponymous NoSQL technology…
Confluent announced on March 7 that it has raised a new $50 million Series C round of funding to help further its effort to support and commercialize Apache Kafka streaming data technology. The funding round was led by Sequoia and…
Though Salesforce has been very successful in the CRM market, it’s certainly not the only successful CRM vendor. One of those vendors, Nimble, announced it has raised a $9M Series A round of funding to grow its CRM business. The…
Salesforce reported its fourth quarter and full 2017 fiscal year financial results on Feb. 28, showing continued growth and optimism for the future. For the quarter, Salesforce reported revenue of $2.28 billion, for a 27 percent year-over-year gain. Fully year…
Mailgun is once again on its own. Cloud and hosting services vendor Rackspace acquired email platform vendor Mailgun back in 2012 and is now spinning Mailgun out on its own. Mailgun describes itself as an email automation platform for developers.…
A basic promise of open-source code is that even if a company goes out of business, the source code can live on. Back in October 2016, after seven years of effort, the company behind the popular open-source RethinkDB database announced…
In the modern world of DevOps, in which application code is constantly being written and re-written in an agile approach, it’s critical to have a continuous testing regimen. The demand for continuous testing is helping to propel software testing Tricentis…
When it comes to making sure that marketing and app efforts are actually working, it’s important to have the right attribution and analytics. AppsFlyer was founded in 2011 with the goal of helping to enable marketing data analytics and mobile…
The open-source Apache Beam project hit a major milestone on Jan.10, graduating from the Apache Incubator and officially becoming a Top Level Project. Beam is a technology that provides a unified programming model for streaming as well as batch data…
The new year has just started, but vendors are already busy raising new money to help them grow. Among the vendors making funding announcements this week are New York City-based NGDATA and Chicago-based CloudCraze. NGDATA NGDATA on Jan. 5 announced…
Databricks announced on December 15 that it has raised $60 million in Series C funding to help grow it commercial aspirations in support of the open-source Apache Spark project. To date, Databricks has raised a total of $107.5 million in…
The open-source CrateDB database hit a major milestone on December 14 with the debut of its 1.0 release. CrateDB defines itself as a SQL database that enables real-time analytics for machine data applications. What is also particularly interesting about CrateDB…
The open-source Apache Zeppelin project is an increasingly popular, web-based notebook for interactive data analytics that directly integrates with the Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics. Among the commercial backers of Zeppelin is ZEPL, formerly known as NFLabs. On…
Building modern applications is not about building a monolith, but rather is about using the right building blocks to pull in the right components and data. SnapLogic is a data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS) vendor that…