Automation software platform acquired by Perforce Software
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Perforce Software announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Puppet, an infrastructure automation software platform that enables users to deliver, update, monitor, and secure software across physical and virtual machines. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
By increasing productivity, eliminating mistakes, enhancing security...
Testing App for API calls lands from Speedscale
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Speedscale, the API test-automation software company, today launches Speedscale CLI, a free observability tool that inspects detects, and maps API calls on local applications or containers. The offering underscores the importance of continued and proactive API testing to quickly detect and debug defects within a shifting array of upstream and downstream interdependencie...
Synthetic data platform upgrades from MOSTLY AI
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
MOSTLY AI, which pioneered the creation of AI-generated synthetic data, launched an upgrade to its platform MOSTLY AI 2.0, the synthetic data platform that can automatically synthesize complex data structures, making it ideal also for software testing. MOSTLY AI 2.0 can be implemented on-premise or in a private cloud and adapts to different data structures of the compan...
Improving cloud security practices for DevOps teams
Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Richard Harris
Technology integration allows customers to securely leverage existing keys, secrets, tokens, and certificates into declarative CI/CD pipelines and ease the management of HashiCorp Vault infrastructure and security practices.
Opsera and HashiCorp partner with plans on improving cloud security practices for DevOps teams
Opsera, the Continuous Orchestration platform ...
Test automation framework from Tavant gets update
Thursday, June 17, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Tavant announced a new version of its end-to-end test automation framework, FIRE 5.0 (Framework for Intelligent and Rapid Execution).
Tavant's FIRE 5.0 is a comprehensive tool and technology agnostic-test automation framework. This framework can orchestrate multiple automation tools and technologies, including (but not limited to) Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Protr...
Why blockchain is the future
Friday, January 15, 2021 by Richard Harris
The fears from the pandemic have naturally placed more focus on wearables helping us monitor our health, fitness, and keeping us better connected.
Companies such as Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and others are flooding the market with health and fitness devices to help mankind to stay healthy and happier. I believe we will see even more companies entering this space and mo...
Identifying company influencers to help with automation projects
Monday, July 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
Instagram influencers may be all the rage, but it’s time organizations shift the focus away from external influencers to internal ones. And, this isn’t a task for your CMO, rather it’s one the CIO can tackle.
CIOs, raise your hand if you already are or have plans to implement automation technology at your organization. If you were to ask this questi...
Popular RPA launches free version for devs, SMBs, and students
Monday, March 11, 2019 by Richard Harris
Automation Anywhere has eliminated the barriers to RPA adoption (Robotic Process Automation) for small businesses, developers and students, by providing unfettered access to the only true digital workforce platform. Beginning now, users of the Community Edition will have access to the full suite of Automation Anywhere products, including RPA, IQ Bot (AI), Bot Insig...
Release Insights released to the Eggplant suite
Friday, August 10, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Eggplant has announced the addition of Eggplant Release Insights to its Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite. The technology enhances the company's automation capabilities, providing intuitive analytics and insights that help teams understand the impact on user satisfaction and business outcomes if they release another version of their product now. This helps...
Data visualization platform acquired by Puppet
Monday, June 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Puppet has announced it has acquired Reflect, a data-visualization-as-a-service platform. An acquisition that helps accelerate Puppet’s product innovation and providing customers better capabilities to derive insights.
“We’ve always helped customers mine valuable information about the state of their IT landscape and take action on it. With the...
What some experts are saying about GDPR
Friday, May 18, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
The GDPR bill is causing an uproar in the industry as the compliance date comes ever nearer. Yet few can say they actually know much about the bill that will come into place on May 25th.GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, is an expansion upon the EU’s previous Data Protection Act of 1998, extending the boundary of its territorial mandate from whatever juris...
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" ...
Cisco introduces a 5G security architecture
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Cisco recently released a blog post talking about how Cisco’s new 5G security architecture is combining artificial intelligence and deep learning to create a network that will orchestrate both physical and virtual resources with equal proficiency resulting in optimal network efficiencies. Network and context information is being automated through the use of shared telem...
ABBYY text scanning software reports revenue growth in 2017
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 by Richard Harris
ABBYY has announced the results of 2017. The company achieved a total revenue growth of 25%, the highest rate in five years. Throughout 2017, ABBYY completed a number of large-scale projects for its corporate clients in the United States, Europe, Australia, and other countries around the world. Licensing technologies to partners like Fujitsu, Epson, Hewlett Packard Ente...
Learning AI to stop the Terminator from taking your job
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
For me the mention of AI and machine learning shoots my thoughts right into the “Terminator” movies, and the great struggle to maintain human existence in the year 2029. The film series is based around a giant AI computing superintelligence named “Skynet”, which is essentially in control of the entire Earth, and a legion of robots that want to destroy anything that thre...
Mobile app testing automation software Panya Test Center v2
Monday, February 5, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Panaya announced the availability of Panaya Test Center 2.0 (PTC), a test acceleration platform that helps organizations drive innovation by accelerating and standardizing enterprise application testing. PTC 2.0 introduces machine learning capabilities that automatically create real-life test cases based on actual usage, improving testing relevance and efficiency while ...
Buying Aitheon at the North American Bitcoin Conference
Thursday, January 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
AI segment headliner at the North American Bitcoin Conference, Aitheon launches worldwide token presale on their website. The company is building a digital ecosystem to simplify many processes through AI, robotic, and human symbiosis.The architect of this innovative ecosystem, Andrew Archer, has been described as Creator of Disruptive Technologies through Inno...
App design thinking principles
Friday, January 12, 2018 by Ed Hadley
Design thinking is fast becoming a key pillar in enterprise digital transformations. And for good reason: the approach promotes a deep understanding of end users; a creative, test-and-learn approach to new ideas; and constant iteration toward optimal outcomes. To many, design thinking is inextricably linked with innovation. After all, IDEO CEO Tim Brown defines design t...
6 ways your company could be using automation software
Friday, January 5, 2018 by Steve Allen
When it comes to robots and our future as human beings, there are two different directions your imagination might take you. On one hand, you’ve probably watched terrifying imaginings of machines turning against mankind in films like The Matrix and The Terminator. In contrast, if you look around at the real world, you see can the reality of machines working side by side ...
Software testing using Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
As the complexity of software continues to increase and release delivery cycles shorten, software testers need to provide quality feedback to developers nearly instantaneously. In this age of continuous testing, companies are adopting a new mantra: Test smarter, not harder. There’s simply no other choice, given the torrential pace of new software launches. Today, ...
Let the machines do the work
Friday, November 10, 2017 by Patrick McClory
Automation is everywhere. According to research from Gartner, by 2019 “75 percent of enterprises will have more than six diverse automation technologies within their IT management portfolios.” Just three years ago, that number was fewer than 20 percent. To some, the growing trend of automation signals an industry shift away from throwing bodies at problems and toward le...
Red Hat and Avi Networks join forces to automate the enterprise app lifecycle
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Avi Networks has collaborated with Red Hat to simplify and automate the enterprise application development and deployment lifecycle. Through the collaboration, Avi Networks and Red Hat integrated technologies to give enterprises the combined power of a container application platform, IT automation, software load balancing, and container networking services. With the con...
HPE containerizes their ITOps management software
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software launched new containerized versions of its HPE IT Operations Management (ITOM) offerings. These suites - Hybrid Cloud Management, Data Center Automation, Operations Bridge, and IT Service Management Automation - help enterprise IT customers manage their private and public cloud infrastructure, and deliver new services at scale in resp...
Pentana 5.1 released by Ideagen
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
Ideagen updated their audit automation software, Pentana 5.1. The updated platform comes with further enhancements to the core internal audit functions, an enhanced Windows and Web user experience and enterprise risk management capability.Ben Dorks, Chief Customer Officer at Ideagen, said: “With each release of Pentana we seek to further address the needs of internal au...
Lets talk about IT automation
Monday, April 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
IT departments are often faced with similar challenges: stagnant budgets and a lack of qualified applicants. Unfortunately, despite the lack of resources, IT continues to face increased pressure to push out new applications faster and make changes to existing systems quicker to stay competitive. IT automation helps companies coordinate and consolidate IT operation...
Pinterest promoted app pins now suported by Bidalgo
Thursday, March 30, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Bidalgo, a provider of ad automation software and services for app marketers, has announced the public availability of ad automation for Pinterest Promoted App Pins. Recognized as a Pinterest Marketing Partner last November, Bidalgo enables app marketers to scale their growth by using Artificial Intelligence algorithms to optimize ad campaigns using Promoted App Pins an...
Ideagen releases Pentana version 5
Sunday, October 30, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Ideagen has released the latest version of its market leading, risk-based audit automation software which comprises a substantially enhanced user experience and new features to support browser-based risk management.Ideagen Pentana version 5 provides web access to audit findings, custom fields and user defined views to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of assuranc...
Centralized or Siloed Considering two test automation approaches
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by Lubos Parobek
Today, software testing is undergoing a major shift. More and more teams are moving from a manual process to a fully automated approach that requires a more technical skill setNo two development environments are exactly alike and there is no cookie cutter approach to software delivery. But there are many standard approaches and methodologies to automated testing. ...
From installs to value: three trends in the age of app marketing
Thursday, October 20, 2016 by Brendon Kraham
Mobile apps are ubiquitous. We live in a world where there are over four million apps to choose from and where attention spans are shorter than ever before. As a result, it is becoming increasingly more important for marketers to understand the critical moments of engagement that are happening in the palms of users’ hands.Over the past decade, app developers banked on t...
Qualitia's test automation software now supports Selenium 3.0
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
Qualitia has unveiled the new 3.12 release of it's script-less test automation software. The highlight of the new release is the support for the latest version of Selenium, version 3.0. With the new release, Selenium 3.0 has been launched as “a tool for user-focused automation of mobile and web apps”. They have completely dropped the RC support and has forced...
Metalogix Teams with Microsoft for SharePoint Online Migration Services
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Metalogix has announced a joint offering with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) for the migration of SharePoint to Office 365 (O365) SharePoint Online (SPO). Featuring the technology of Metalogix Content Matrix, the solution moves SharePoint users and content from source to target.Through a combination of custom-built MCS automation software and direct API integration...
XebiaLabs XL Deploy App Release Automation Software Now on AWS CodePipeline
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
XebiaLabs today announced that its XL Deploy enterprise application release automation software is now available as a supported deployment option from AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service from Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS CopePipeline allows users to build, test, and deploy their code every time there is a code change. With this new integration, AWS Co...
A Few TIPPs for Mobile Testing Environments
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 by Yoram Mizrachi
Many organizations we work with are struggling to see value from their efforts in mobile development, and I’ve noticed a trend that the main issue seems to be that their software development lifecycle does not run as smoothly as they would like. When the SDLC is not running well, it sets the product up for bugs and missed deadlines. Often times the tools used...
Orasi’s New Toolkit Expands Software Testing Capabilities
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Richard Harris
Orasi Software has announced it is expanding its line of software testing utilities including the addition of the upcoming Orasi Performance Test Intelligence Connector (OPTIC).Orasi is an Atlanta-based quality assurance software reseller and professional services company who offers products targeted to supporting or enhancing software test automation, team communicatio...
