On November 29, 2016 the Node.js Foundation announced a major effort to help further grow and stabilize node.js on different virtual machines (VMs). By enabling node.js to be VM-neutral, the hope is that it can be used by application developers…
Software as a Service (SaaS) pioneer Salesforce is moving into new revenue territory as the company continues to grow and add new services. Salesforce announced its third quarter fiscal 2017 earnings on November 17, with revenue reported at $2.14 billion,…
Before any company deploys any web or mobile app, it needs to test, and that’s where Sauce Labs fits in. Sauce Labs announced on November 15 that it has raised a $70 million series E round of funding. The new…
Graph database developer Neo Technology announced on November 10 that it has raised a $36 million Series D round of funding, bringing total funding to date for the company up to $80.1 million. The new round of funding was led…
While process automation has long been the purview of IT organizations, Tibco Software is rolling out Simplr, a solution that it calls a “personal automation” software-as-a-service. The do-it-yourself tool allows “regular” users to automate repetitive tasks by building forms and…
By James Maniscalco, BackOffice Associates The promise of business process management (BPM) has been long predicted to become a key tenet of software implementation in the enterprise. Through much of the late 1990s when the internet and web applications started…
Apple made waves in the tech world last week with the announcement of its new MacBook Pro. A key feature of the new machine is the Touch Bar, an integrated touchscreen that is set to replace the traditional row of…
By Neil Parkin, 82nd Airborne Division Association DevOps, a closer relationship between development and operations functions based on specific best practices, has emerged as one of the most widely adopted means for deploying and maintaining application solutions quickly and effectively.…
Vendors big and small are making news at this week’s Strata + Hadoop event as they try to expand their portion of the Big Data market. Cloudera highlighted a trio of Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects to which it contributes.…
Oracle is aiming to grow its applications business in the cloud, with announcements — lots of them — made this week at the company’s OpenWorld event in San Francisco, including its launch of portfolio of cloud-based applications called Adaptive Intelligent…
By Mark Field, QuickBase “We’ve got an app for that.” Once a memorable advertising catch-phrase, this is now an IT worker’s dream and — potentially — a chief digital officer’s worst nightmare. As businesses undergo digital transformation, more employees are…
Lyft knows a thing or two about how to scale a company, growing from zero to a global business in just a few short years. A core element to the ride-sharing provider’s success was figuring out how to scale its…
By Phara E. McLachlan, Natheava LLC Virtually every enterprise talks about IT asset management (ITAM) strategy, but how many have successfully integrated it into their IT culture? The evidence suggests only about a third; in 2009, only 32 percent of…
It was a big week for Big Data, with multiple vendors making announcements at this week’s Hadoop Summit in San Jose. Among the big multi-vendor announcements in the Hadoop ecosystem was one from Linux Foundation ODPi (Open Data Platform Initiative)…
Red Hat officially closed on its acquisition of enterprise Java tools vendor JBoss for $350 million last June. Ever since, Red Hat has been growing its Java application tools business and expanding its development products and projects. Red Hat executives…
Sumeet Singh, founder and CEO of AppFormix, has been busy over the last 12 months. In June 2015, Singh raised $7 million in a Series A funding round, to help build application visibility, performance and scheduling technology. The technology expanded…
The Holberton School got its start in 2015, offering the promise of a new way to teach students how to code. Now the school is expanding further, with a new partnership with PagerDuty, an IT incident management firm, that aims…
By Tim Hegedus, Miro Consulting As of July 1, 2016, the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement will double its license user/device minimum from 250 to 500 users or devices. Organizations that fall into the 250 to 499-license category must take action before…
The OpenStack Mitaka release debuted back in April of this year and with it came a series of updated open source projects, including the Trove database-as-a-service effort. OpenStack developers are now working on the next major iteration of the cloud…
At the center of this week’s Spark Summit is the open source Apache Spark technology, which has emerged in recent years to become a foundational element of Big Data application and analytics stacks. While the Spark Summit, which highlights open…
Puppet is widely used by organizations today as part of a DevOps model and to help enable configuration management, as well as application deployment. Now Puppet is wading into the Docker container world, by providing Puppet’s namesake application as a…
The big news from Salesforce’s first quarter fiscal 2017 earnings: The CRM giant is on track to crack $10 billion in total annual revenue for the first time, after experiencing what Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called “the best Q1 we’ve…
The world of NoSQL database technology has many entrants, among them MarkLogic. This week the company announced some of the new features it is building into its MarkLogic 9 database, slated to become generally available in December of this year.…
In the world of DevOps, Luke Kanies and his company Puppet are well known for helping enable configuration, management and deployment of applications and infrastructure. Puppet is now embarking on a new effort dubbed “Blueshift” that aims to help enable…
The open source Hadoop platform has emerged in recent years as the defacto standard tool for Big Data. Among the biggest backers of Hadoop is Cloudera, which built a freely available distribution of Hadoop (CDH) as well as an enterprise…
Steve Herrod, managing director at venture capital firm General Catalyst, is no stranger to the world of applications, having worked for years as the CTO of VMware. Now as an investor, Herrod is looking for the next big thing for…
Applications both consume and expose APIs as a way to extend and integrate different data and forms of functionality, putting APIs at the cornerstone of many modern applications. While the most common approach for using APIs today is by using…
Open source data processing engine Apache Spark continues to win favor in the enterprise, as evidenced by its growing usage among developers who find it easier to use than Hadoop. According to an October survey, standalone deployments of Spark –…
By Dan Cunningham, ReadyTalk Goodbye, Flash. I’m just going to say it: It’s been rough these past few years, and it’s about that time when we have to go our separate ways. Trust me, it’s going to be better this…
Developers can choose from a lot of different programming languages to build applications and infrastructure in 2016. For nearly three decades the open source Perl language has been one popular choice, and it’s a choice that is still being made…
The Apache Software Foundation is rolling out a new top level project this week, and it’s one that didn’t first have to undergo the typical project incubation phase. Apache Arrow, an effort to build columnar in-memory analytics technology that could…
There are a lot of different ways for data scientists to manipulate data. Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, is giving its users a new option with the native integration of the open source Python language for the Pentaho Data Integration…
MariaDB Corporation, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open source MariaDB database, started 2016 off with a bang, appointing new CEO Michael Howard and CTO Monty Widenius and announcing $9 million in equity financing from Intel Capital and California Technology…
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates For many years, enterprises were limited to employing just one ERP system. But technology advances now allow enterprises to shift to post-modern ERP deployments, using best-in-class solutions within a hybrid apps architecture. This evolution provides…
In the enterprise application world there is always a lot of movement, and 2015 was no exception. Okta, a provider of identity management and single sign-on solutions, published its Best of 2015 applications report this week, revealing its data-driven picks…
Customer service support is often a make or break attribute for companies offering goods or services. For Zendesk, customer service is the company’s entire business, one it is expanding with an Advanced Voice capability for its flagship Zendesk platform. Offering…
After years of development and a few delays, the open source Drupal 8 content management system (CMS) is now generally and freely available. Among the most popular and widely deployed CMS technologies in use today, Drupal counts whitehouse.gov and the…
While companies are interested in adopting master data management (MDM) to improve customer service initiatives and boost decision-making capabilities, among other reasons, they sometimes struggle to make a business case for MDM due to concerns over its costs and complexity.…
By Sharon Trembley, Miro Consulting, Inc. Full capacity is IBM’s default position for all organizations licensing its software. You are likely licensing at full capacity if you are not using its IBM Licensing Metric Tool (ILMT), with only a couple…
By Jon Green, BackOffice Associates Data quality initiatives are important to enterprises because poor data quality can lead to a multitude of costly and reputation-affecting business problems. Critical marketing campaigns can become ineffective due to poor address and contact information.…
Tibco, a provider of integration, analytics and event processing software, aims to help organizations create, test, deploy and manage enterprise apps in the cloud with two new integration platforms it rolled out this week. One of the two new solutions,…
Pentaho is set to debut its new Pentaho 6 Enterprise 6 and community editions, providing users with new business intelligence capabilities. Pentaho formally announced the Penthao 6 release on September 30, though general availability is not scheduled until October 14.…
Setting up, configuring and managing a Big Data cluster of Hadoop and Spark applications is no easy task. That’s where Altiscale comes into the picture with its Big Data as a Service cloud platform that enables organizations to run their…
While the open source Drupal content management system (CMS) is freely available, there is money to be made in support and services. This is where Acquia, the lead commercial vendor behind Drupal, comes into play. Acquia today announced a new…
By Nirmit Glennon, ManageEngine “Going mobile” seems to be the mantra of modern day enterprises, with 63 percent of them believing that mobility leads to competitive advantage. Their belief is not without cause, as a recent survey by Nielson reports…
Nothing is more important to sales representatives and their managers than the progress of deals in the pipeline. Yet there has been a “significant blind spot” regarding those deals because of the limitations of traditional business intelligence and CRM tools,…
By Steve Moss, Capgemini Mobile Solutions The “app culture” era is upon us, transforming the way we work, play, learn and live. At work, employees increasingly use their own third-party productivity applications to improve productivity and access cloud-stored data in…
Business is booming for Salesforce, and CEO Marc Benioff wants everyone to know it. For its second quarter fiscal 2016 financial results, which the CRM giant released yesterday, Salesforce reported revenue of $1.63 billion for a 24 percent year-over-year gain.…
By Rob Pickering, CIO, AAA Allied Group At most companies, email is the means to run a business. Whether it’s HR, marketing, legal or purchasing, much of the decision-making and tracking flows through the inbox before it manages to make…
By Andrii Glushko, SoftServe How many times have you caught yourself thinking that, although you’ve gotten used to the keyboard, computer mouse/trackpad and touchscreens, it still feels unnatural to interact with modern digital devices? We may not even think about…