Topic: salesforce
SD Times news digest: Salesforce acquires Slack, Android Gradle plugin 7.0, and Weave Kubernetes Platform 2.4
Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the communications platform Slack for approximately $27.7 billion. The company hopes together they can create a new operating system for the digital world of work. “As software plays a more and more critical role in the performance of every organization, we share a vision of reduced … continue reading
Salesforce to acquire data visualization company Tableau for $15.7 billion
Salesforce is acquiring data analytics and visualization platform Tableau for a whopping $15.7 billion in an all-stock transaction. The acquisition follows Google’s purchase of the analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion last week and shows that the industry is willing to pay huge sums for effective data analytics. “2019 is close to becoming a … continue reading
Lightning Web Components now open sourced for JavaScript developers
Salesforce is opening up its Lightning Web Components to a wider developer audience. The company has announced the JavaScript framework is now open sourced, expanding developers’ ability to create web components across a variety of platforms. “Open-source software empowers developers to examine the source code and enhance it with contributions based on their own insights … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Salesforce enables custom AI building, Red Hat takes leadership of OpenJDK 8 and 11, Datadog launches software test platform
Salesforce, which specializes in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), released Einstein Services, enabling admins and developers to build custom AI by using low-code or simple “point-and-click” formulas. The custom AI can then be embedded into Salesforce or any external app. The Einstein Platform Services include Einstein Translation, which will automatically translate any Salesforce object or field … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Salesforce’s Lightning Web Components, EdgeX Foundry Delhi update, and MariaDB’s new Node.js connector
Salesforce has announced Lightning Web Components, which is a programming model for the Lightning Platform. According to Salesforce, the model will give developers reusable building blocks for creating Lightning apps and experiences. “We are constantly working and looking for ways to help our customers build faster, innovate and deliver new products to their customers and … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Firefox Monitor, new Watson services, and Salesforce and AWS partnership expands
Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox Monitor, which will notify people when they have been part of a data breach. Users can get started by looking up their email and finding out if it has been part of a past data breach. They can then sign up to be notified if a breach ever … continue reading
SD Times news digest: DeployHub SaaS, Salesforce Lightning Platform’s low-code tools, and Microsoft’s acquisition of Lobe
DevOps company DeployHub has announced the release of DeployHub SaaS, which is a hosted solution for application release automation. According to the company, DeployHub SaaS focuses on helping software teams achieve full continuous deployments in legacy and serverless data centers. “Our goal is to allow all software development teams to deploy software like Facebook, Amazon … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: TransmogrifAI
Salesforce is open sourcing a tool that aims to make it easier to build scaled machine learning systems for enterprises, TransmogrifAI. TransmogrifAI is a automated machine learning library for structured data that enables data teams to transform customer data into meaningful predictions, according to the company. Salesforce explained it has been using TransmogrifAI to power … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Qt Design Studio, Contrast Security’s IDE integrations, and Salesforce Research Deep Learning Grant
Qt announced the Qt Design Studio, which will help foster collaboration between graphic designers and software developers when they are creating user interfaces. It allows designers to drag-and-drop UI elements into the environment that developers use to create application logic. The platform will then automatically translate those image files into Qt’s declarative design language. By … continue reading
Salesforce Research aims to capture the nuances of natural language processing
The Salesforce Research team is attempting to capture the nuances of natural language processing with a new generalized model. The team described its approach in a recently published a paper on the Natural Language Decathlon (decaNLP). According to Richard Socher, chief scientist at Salesforce who is leading the research team, while natural language processing is … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Apple and Google’s accessibility initiatives, Rackspace acquires RelationEdge, and Theta Labs partners with Play Labs
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day yesterday, Apple announced it will be teaming up with educators from blind and deaf communities across the US to provide accessible coding to their schools. Starting in the fall, schools that support students with vision, hearing, or other assistive needs will teach the Everyone Can Code program for Swift, which … continue reading
Pluralsight Technology Index shows Java is in demand
Java is in demand, according to Pluralsight Technology Index. Pluralsight launched the index to rank the demand and growth rate of more than 300 software development languages, tools, and frameworks. This provides CIOs, CTOs, and their teams with insights on technology trends in order to inform their technology strategies and direct their personal skill development … continue reading
