A new initiative is launching to transform data into digital customer experiences that drive business value. Adobe, Microsoft and SAP announced the Open Data Initiative at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando today. The Open Data Initiative was created out of the need to gather data in real-time and make business decisions based on it. According to … continue reading
For many software engineers, the end-user experience is considered a key element of the features they develop. A number of studies conclude that businesses understand the importance of prioritizing customer experience to remain competitive, so this approach to development aligns well with these business goals. A recent Gartner study shows that 89 percent of brands … continue reading
Google has announced new experimental features for developers to use on the Lenovo Mirage Solo, which is a Daydream virtual reality headset. It added new APIs to support positional controller tracking with six degrees of freedom (6DoF), which enables users to move their hands more naturally in VR. It also added see-through mode, which enables … continue reading
Microsoft kicked off its Ignite conference this morning with a boatload of announcements primarily around three themes: IT security, AI and data, and IoT and edge computing. With cyberattacks continuing to harm organizations around the world, Microsoft announced Secure Score, a report card for assessing their current state of security as well as making recommendations … continue reading
The rise of artificial intelligence is providing business with new ways to work. One trend is moving towards robotic process automation (RPA), a business process automation solution used to cut costs, reduce errors, and speed up processes, according to Gartner. To take these capabilities even further, testing and performance solution provider Eggplant has announced Eggplant … continue reading
Unsatisfied with the available solutions for connecting the analytics-generating power of their TensorFlow machine learning implementations with the scalable data computation and storage capabilities of their Apache Hadoop clusters, developers at LinkedIn decided that they’d take matters into their own hands with the development of this week’s highlighted project, TonY. “TonY stands for TensorFlow on … continue reading
GitLab is now valued at more than $1 billion thanks to a recent $100 million series D round of funding. The company plans to use this new investment to strengthen its position with DevOps and tackle everything from planning to monitoring. The round of funding was led by ICONIQ Capital and included participation from Khosla … continue reading
Google has released preview version 2 of its mobile app toolkit Flutter. According to the company, this preview is its last major milestone before officially releasing Flutter 1.0. This preview version includes an extensive library of widgets and classes for building for iOS, support for Dart, and a 30 percent reduction in the size of … continue reading
A new solution wants to end the process of building custom connectors for Microsoft Azure Logic Apps and existing legacy infrastructure. Java and .NET interoperability provider JNBridge announced the R&D Showcase Kit, a new solution designed to solve interoperability issues between Azure Logic Apps and existing JMS-based messaging infrastructure. Azure Logic Apps enable business process … continue reading
Google announced several new updates to its database portfolio as well as developer tool space at Google Cloud Next’18 in Tokyo this week. The updates aim to expand the capabilities of the Google Cloud Platform. As part of its announcement, the company revealed the Cloud Memorystore for Redis, a full managed in-memory data storage service. … continue reading
Testing company SmartBear has announced the release of TestComplete 12.6. The new release adds a new Hybrid Object Recognition Engine that will allow teams to test applications components that were previously deemed untestable. The company also added a new Intelligent Recommendation System that offers automatic recommendations, enabling test teams to optimize their test designs and … continue reading
TigerGraph has announced the latest release of its graph analytics platform. This release offers integrations with popular databases and storage systems, Docker and Kubernetes support, availability on the AWS Marketplace and Microsoft Azure, and a new graph algorithm library. New integrations with other databases include RDBMS, Kafka, Amazon S3, and HDFS. It will also add … continue reading
