Building the Future of Web Automation
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Browserbase, the company behind cutting-edge browser infrastructure for automation, announced a major product update recently, reinforcing its vision for the future of intelligent web automation. Founded just 16 months ago, Browserbase has rapidly become foundational to how businesses leverage AI to streamline online workflows.
CEO and Founder Paul Klein shared that ...
BPM self contained apps to improve agility and competitiveness
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 by Pablo Alonso de Linaje
The needs and objectives of business evolve fast, and continuously, in a competitive environment. This places a heavy demand on enterprise IT teams to develop and deliver and change business applications rapidly.
BPM self-contained applications offer a new approach to business process management (BPM) process-based applications. This approach aims to simpli...
Kubernetes operations platform gets more funding
Thursday, September 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Rafay helps platform teams move beyond traditional Kubernetes cluster management to streamlined Kubernetes operations for modern applications.
Rafay Systems Kubernetes operations platform gets $25M in funding
Rafay Systems, the platform for Kubernetes Operations, has announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by ForgePoint Capital, with participation from ...
Low code pros and cons
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 by Richard Harris
If you are a coder - someone who can actually write source code for software development, you are probably tired of the constant barrage of emails from head-hunters wanting to snipe you from your current position. You are in demand my friend, very high demand in fact, and there is no sign of it slowing down. Developers are needed in every sector of the IT industry, but ...
Rubrik just launched an open source community
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
Rubrik just announced Rubrik Build, a new 100 percent public, 100 percent Open Source community built around use cases and integrations that consume Rubrik APIs. As part of Rubrik Build, contributors can leverage existing software development kits, tools, and use cases or contribute their own ideas, code, documentation, and feedback.
The goal of Rubrik Buil...
The App Lifecycle: Tips for engaging and retaining users
Monday, July 30, 2018 by David Lundell
Today, there are over 6 billion apps across the app stores, with more and more popping up every day. Developers are constantly working to fight through the clutter to acquire new users via paid and organic channels. And in a world of ever-changing user attention, the challenge for developers once they do acquire a new user is figuring out how to keep the user engaged an...
CARU refers Musical.ly to FTC
Monday, April 30, 2018 by Austin Harris
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit has referred The Musical.ly Inc., operator of the Musical.ly mobile application, to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), after the company said it would not comply with CARU’s recommendations regarding children’s privacy.CARU is an investigative unit of the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation. CARU monitors websites and...
Job automation: Impacts, risks, and the future
Friday, April 27, 2018 by Richard Harris
Automation has been affecting our everyday lives for a long time now. From washing machines cleaning our clothes for us to water coming out of the facet because of a well, we love convenience, and automation makes it all happen.I think every generation has stood on the cliff of change because of automation. When technology is involved, making it working "automatically" ...
Mobile ad creative help from Tapjoy arrives
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tapjoy has announced the launch of the Interplay Studio, an in-house creative team and design studio dedicated to helping brands, agencies and marketers deliver mobile ad creative optimized for in-app environments. Campaigns designed by the Interplay Studio have demonstrated average click-through rate that are 3-5X greater than traditional mobile video ads and deliver a...
Urban Airship launches in app automation engine
Friday, March 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
Fast-following the announcement of AI Marketing Orchestration for cross-channel messaging coordination, Urban Airship has unveiled an in-app automation engine. In-app messaging is a proven lifeline for apps to engage all users, but limitations in triggering and delivery timing meant there was always the possibility for messages to be seen as irrelevant, annoying or inte...
New Tosca release enhances SAP testing and automation
Monday, March 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tricentis, has announced the 11.1 release of Tricentis Tosca. Tosca 11.1 release adds a number of new features around SAP testing, BI/data warehouse testing, mobile, test data management, and more.“Maintaining our position as the industry’s most innovative test automation platform requires supporting the most complex applications in our customer’s portfolios,” said Dr. ...
The evolving role of the Network Engineer
Monday, July 31, 2017 by Grant Ho
Many network engineers still struggle to manage key IT workflows manually, including network troubleshooting, documentation, change management, and cybersecurity. Managing these workflows is becoming increasingly difficult, and the issue is only expected to escalate as networks grow and become more complex with the move towards software-defined networking (SDN) and clou...
Improve mobile app security by turning it into code
Monday, May 8, 2017 by Jeff Williams
Why is application security such a pain? One of the hard problems with application security is that there are a zillion different ways that things can go wrong. Far more than any one person can be expert in. It's unfair to think that a software developer, who is already supposed to be expert in all the latest software languages, frameworks and best practices, should als...
Chef Releases New Open Source Application Automation Platform
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Chef has released a new open source project that introduces a unique approach for application automation. Applications packaged with Habitat have the intelligence to self-organize and self-configure making applications independent of underlying infrastructure. The platform provides the ability to run applications across increasingly diverse environments such as con...
SmartBear Acquires CrossBrowserTesting's Automated Cloud Testing Platform
Sunday, May 8, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has acquired CrossBrowserTesting, which offers an automated cloud platform for testing applications written for browsers and mobile devices. The CrossBrowserTesting platform contains more than 1,500 mobile and desktop browsers in over 65 operating systems, including iOS, Android and Windows. Developers can use the CrossBrowserTesting to test a we...
CliQr Offers New Continuous Integration and Deployment Project Board
Thursday, November 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
With the launch of CloudCenter 4.2, CliQr has integrated into its cloud management platform a Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Deployment (CD) Project Board that integrates and automates the management of users, applications, and environments.Through integration with CloudCenter the CI/CD Project Board offers a visual view of project phases, health, and overall s...
Automic Launches Online Marketplace for Business Application Automation
Saturday, June 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Automic has announced the new Automic PlugIn Marketplace providing the ability to, buy, download or contribute plugins to drive automation for enterprises. The Automic PlugIn Marketplace enables users to access, or request new solutions that can be shared with the broader community. The platform can either be accessed via front end or via the Github backend. O...
Continuous Delivery is Eating DevOps as Software is Eating the Business
Thursday, March 26, 2015 by Sacha Labourey
For years, IT has been automating business processes. Now IT is automating its own processes to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to meet the business demand for new software features and capabilities. Continuous DeliveryWhat if the business could release dozens of tested software improvements to production daily? Could the business respond to market and cu...
Application Readiness Strategies for Reducing Mobile Application Management Risk and BYOD
Monday, September 8, 2014 by Maureen Polte
With the meteoric growth of mobile Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) in the enterprise, IT is facing an existential crisis. How does it enable and empower employees yearning for mobile access to enterprise applications and data – without sacrificing security or control? How organizations ultimately resolve this crisis is yet to be determined. But the strategy IT adopts will ...
Appboy Launches App Automation Marketing Campaign Retargeting
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Appboy is bringing marketing automation to mobile apps via the launch of its new Campaign Retargeting which provides the ability to move past creating one off campaigns.Appboy customers can now retarget based on individual actions that users have or have not taken. Every campaign activity can now be leveraged via mobile, providing a complete picture on how use...
SOASTA Announces the Launch of a New CloudTest
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 by Richard Harris
SOASTA today announced the launch of a new CloudTest, the industry recognized leading mobile and web app test automation solution, so that speed and quality no longer conflict when bringing a mobile app to market. ANAHEIM, Calif. StarWest Conference - October 2, 2013 SOASTA® Inc., the leader in cloud and mobile testing, today announced the latest release o...
