Software delivery trends to watch for according to OpsMX
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 by Gopinath Rebala
As businesses around the globe face ongoing economic uncertainty, most are focused on rapidly adapting to changing conditions and customer requirements. This means they must rapidly update the features and functionality of a variety of homegrown and customized software solutions used by employees and customers to power the business.
Trends to watch in software delive...
Increase developer productivity in 2022
Sunday, January 9, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Patrick Jean is the CTO at OutSystems, where he's focused on building a great engineering culture where motivated people are free to unleash their passion doing meaningful work. With more than 20 years of engineering leadership experience, he has led multiple high-stakes, cloud transformation initiatives at SaaS providers, blending customer focus, inspired developme...
Try to make web apps like native apps in 2021
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Consumers will want to work seamlessly between desktop and mobile. We will continue to see an accelerated trend towards modifying web apps to exhibit mobile app-like functionality and bring rich desktop features to the phone.
Addressing system-switching fatigue
Businesses will seek more integrated solutions to reduce the number of portals users must log in to, whe...
New outsourced app development service launches
Friday, January 31, 2020 by Richard Harris
System Soft Technologies (SSTech) announced the formal launch of an application development outsourcing service to help SMBs drive the innovation required to meet the demands of digital transformation.
The AppSimpleTM service successfully offered in beta in 2019, supplements and enhances the design, test, and deployment skills and experience of SMBs’ in-house t...
Build vs buying mobile app code
Saturday, December 28, 2019 by Robert Castles
In the business world, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the end customer is still a human being. Consumer technology has spoiled us, in a good way, and now users are demanding the same level of customer experience and problem-solving from business applications as they get from the technologies ubiquitous in their day-to-day personal lives. This leaves companies ...
Developer's dilemma: Toolchain hell
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 by Thomas Hooker
In 2019, 65 percent of IT professionals say they plan to deliver 10 or more applications (State of Application Development, outsystems, 2019/2020). That data validates something we know. Across industries everywhere, development teams face increasing demands from leadership to increase productivity and, accelerate software delivery. Teams are adopting modern techni...
New Open Source DevOps platform from Infosys launches
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Infosys has unveiled the Infosys DevOps Platform, an enterprise class integrated Open Source DevOps platform, that helps organizations accelerate their Agile and DevOps transformation journey.
Infosys DevOps Platform enables enterprises to:
Rapidly onboard applications on Agile and DevOps through a self-service model. With 2000+ prebuilt scripts and 150+ DevOps...
New STO planning software emerges
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 by Stuart Parkerson
STOlogix has announced the launch of a new front-end software solution which streamlines the functionality of complex and disparate software applications required for STO planning. The new software solution, STOplanner, is being developed by KAP Project Services, a leading project controls and project services provider for the oil, gas and petrochemical industries.Accor...
How governments can harness the power of blockchain
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
At the World Government Summit in Dubai, ConsenSys will release a paper that offers governments a clear roadmap to harness the power of blockchain technology and implement robust blockchain strategies. Participating in the Summit, ConsenSys continues to develop its relationship with Dubai, which has established itself as a clear adopter of blockchain and a growing hub o...
Platform9 releases infrastructure agnostic managed Kubernetes service
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Platform9 just announced the general availability of its Managed Kubernetes service, the industry’s first infrastructure-agnostic, SaaS-managed offering. Unlike legacy software distribution models, Managed Kubernetes is deployed and managed entirely as a SaaS solution, across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure. The company also introduced Fission, a ...
Creating custom apps doesn't mean you have to reinvent the wheel
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 by David Magnan
New advances in technology come thick and fast, but most companies are unable to keep pace. It can be a struggle just to ensure that existing systems are kept up to date. Few companies are agile enough to leverage the latest tech and drive innovation. The idea that a new, all-encompassing, bespoke application must be developed or cobbled together is pervasive. The truth...
The new SaaS solution for secure mobile enterprise access
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Austin Harris
SaberLogic has released Bezlio, a new SaaS product that makes it easy for companies to provide data from sources like ERP and accounting systems to any PC or device, including mobile devices like smartphones (iPhone and Android) and tablets.They have spent the last 14 years providing custom software development and integration work around ERP applications for manufactur...
What you need to know about customizing Software as a Service
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Stacy Simmons
It’s a given for web and mobile application development that performance testing is critical to application success. Yet, for organizations wishing to customize third-party (3P) software as a service (SaaS) rather than running it out of the box as written, performance testing can be problematic. For some types of performance testing, it is nearly impossible due to limit...
Udacity Blitz aims to connect companies with top engineers
Thursday, November 17, 2016 by Austin Harris
Udacity Blitz is announcing a new service directly connecting companies with top engineers who develop and fully manage custom software projects. Udacity Blitz teams build mobile apps, websites, and data services for innovative companies that need to move fast and get quality results. Companies have the option to hire Udacity Blitz engineers (called Blitzers) for their ...
The Challenge of User Experience
Thursday, April 28, 2016 by Joe Schulz
In the past year or so, user experience (UX) has been completely dominating the conversation around app development, pushing aside more traditional discussions. That’s not surprising, given user expectations - and the nature of mobile devices in particular. Yet, every day, thousands if not millions of users can’t complete tasks because they weren’t intuitive ...
Open Source and Enterprise App Development
Thursday, August 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
To open source or not to open source, that is the question for many IT teams that are struggling with deciding on the best approach to mobile application development. There is no doubt that today’s broad array of open source offerings appear to offer development nirvana – free, community driven, customizable software.However, with all the potential of open source platfo...
How IT Decision Makers and Business Executives Agree and Disagree on IT Investment
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
In the second part of a national two-part study on current IT trends and market opportunities, business executives and IT decision makers from companies across diverse industries, services, locations and work force size showed mixed opinions on the prioritization of and investment in enterprise technology solutions.The online survey was fielded for Appian by Harris Poll...
Finding the Right Custom Software Development Firm
Monday, December 8, 2014 by Joshua Philips
In the custom software development process, goals tend to evolve dramatically. The application you initially set out to develop often looks very different from the one you end up with, precisely because you learn more about what you need and the best way to accomplish it at every step of the development process. Even at the very beginning, as you select a software ...
DataArt Launches M2M IoT Consulting Services
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
DataArt, a provider of custom software solutions, has announced the launch of its M2M/IoT consulting practice, to meet the quickly growing demands of the IoT marketplace. The new practice group is dedicated to helping clients who are interested in experimenting with the Internet of Things (IoT) space across a variety of industries, including insurance, utilities, h...
How To Make Better Field Service Communications Apps
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 by Edward Wall
If you’re looking for a fascinatingly complex and highly unique development challenge, you don’t have to look any further than connecting field service workforces for organizations with a regional, national, or global presence. This wide and diverse group – which encompasses everything from big-box retailers to grocery chains to transportation companies – are often...
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