A change at the top, followed by a clearly defined focus, with an all-out embrace of open technologies and an increased update release cycle. Throw in a further commitment to consumer devices for good measure. One could argue that 2014 was the year of Microsoft. Or, at least, the year it remade itself. But it … continue reading
Software vulnerabilities have existed for as long as there has been software. Organizations and their developers have been locked in a cat-and-mouse game with the legion of hackers looking to steal data. Every time one breach is fixed, another is exploited, and âround and âround it goes. So, after Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, … continue reading
Altova today announced the commercial release of MobileTogether, its application development environment for cross-platform deployment that organizations can use to create enterprise solutions for their workforces. MobileTogether enables users to access internal databases, processes, charts, and graphs to create such things as dashboards and forms for mobile workers. The platform provides connectivity to relational databases, … continue reading
The industry has reached an inflection point in our thinking about data. Itâs no longer about slicing and dicing data sets; itâs now about creating insights. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Steve Mills, whoâs on the data science team within the strategic innovation group at Booz Allen Hamilton, the giant consulting firm. … continue reading
Reaction to Microsoftâs announcement yesterday that it was giving up its .NET Core to open source has been swift, and largely positive. Almost as telling as the reaction to the technical portions of the announcement was the reaction to Microsoftâs decision to open-source the .NET stack and enable it to run on Linux or Mac … continue reading
Updates to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Azure and the .NET Framework were announced at a New York City event today that was live-streamed to an estimated 250,000 developers around the world. Public previews of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 are being made available todayâalong with new cross-platform tools in Visual Studio 2015âwhile .NET … continue reading
Organizations today get that they have to collect data to stay competitive. They understand how to store it, retrieve it and slice it. The idea now is to understand the data itself, to detect patterns and trends that will help the organization get new customers or members, service them more personally and engage with them … continue reading
Itâs official: HTML5 is a standard. The World Wide Web Consortium today has elevated the HTML5 specification to ârecommendationâ status, giving it the groupâs highest level of endorsement, which is akin to becoming a standard. But Jeff Jaffe, CEO of the W3C, was quick to point out that work on the Web is far from … continue reading
Microsoft today has made available new APIs for Office 365 that will enable developers to integrate mail, files, calendars and contacts into their applications. âWeâre seeing millions of people using Office 365 every day, and theyâre not all on Windows devices,â said Arpan Shah, senior director of Office 365. âOffice 365 is [Microsoftâs] most strategic … continue reading
Microsoft has extended its Azure data services with real-time analytics and machine-learning capabilities, the company announced at Strata + Hadoop World in New York City. Azure HDInsight is getting enhanced analytics capabilities for use with Apache Hadoop, so companies can gain knowledge of new opportunities, according to a blog post by T.K. Rengarajan, corporate vice … continue reading
Data is the big thing in business these days. Big Data. Information that is gathered by the organization, retrieved from a Web service, or collected from social media can create big problems regarding the way your applications perform. More and more enterprises today are looking to leverage the cloud for all the benefits it brings. … continue reading
In the U.K., in-play bettingâthe ability to wager on who the next football (soccer to us Americans) player to score a goal in a game will be, for exampleâis taking the online gambling establishment there by storm. The rise in popularity could not have occurred, though, without advances in technology. Specifically, real-time data distribution technology. … continue reading
