The Rise of Agentic Orchestration
Thursday, January 8, 2026 by Austin Harris
According to Tamas Cser, Founder and CEO of Functionize, the industry is on the verge of a structural shift. By 2026, development teams will transition from AI copilots to agentic fleets: coordinated groups of specialized AI agents operating semi-autonomously across the entire software lifecycle. In this new paradigm, engineering excellence is measured less by syntactic...
AI development challenges addressed in new update from Mendix
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 by Richard Harris
Mendix recently announced the general availability of Mendix 10.18. The latest release includes new features, performance upgrades, and AI-driven enhancements designed to make software development easier and more accessible.
By combining low-code with the power of AI, Mendix 10.18 provides organizations with:
AI-powered assistance across the entire so...
TrueNAS R30 launches from iXsystems
Friday, December 23, 2022 by Austin Harris
iXsystems, the company behind TrueNAS, has announced the RELEASE of TrueNAS SCALE 22.12 "Bluefin", the second major version of TrueNAS SCALE and the industry’s most powerful open source hyper-converged storage OS. Developed in true open source fashion alongside the hundreds of thousands of members in the TrueNAS Community, this storage software release f...
Ahead of GDC 2019, Google drops new app advertising solutions
Monday, March 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
Google has announced new mobile app advertising solutions ahead of the Game Developers Conference 2019.
The new tools aim to help developers carve out better revenue and build a better app business, especially those developers making games. There are new tools in most sections of the software lifecycle, including pre-launch, launch, and even post-launch.
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DevSecOps will help security and developers play nice
Thursday, June 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
Veracode, a security software company acquired by CA Technologies, has announced the results of a study examining the relationships between application developers and security teams.The study, conducted in conjunction with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), shows that despite the pervasive belief that security and development teams have conflicting priorities, initiatives...
The Intersection of Big Data Analytics and Software Development: Why You Should Be There
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 by Don Vilsack
Despite the proven value of collecting raw software project data and analyzing it to create actionable, easily digested key performance indicators (KPIs), many firms still struggle to extract, analyze, and organize this data into reports—let alone dashboards or scorecards. If this sounds like your organization, don’t be surprised. In my experience, only a handful of fir...
Orasi Software Now a Certified Partner for Tasktop's DevOps Integration Technology
Friday, April 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Orasi Software has announced that it is now a Certified Services Partner for Tasktop, a provider of software lifecycle integration (SLI) solutions and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tool. As a Certified Services Partner, Orasi will provide consulting and deployment services for Tasktop and will be eligible for evaluation and non-production licenses to help cus...
Neotys Offers New Platform for Testing and Monitoring the Full Application Lifecycle
Sunday, January 31, 2016 by Richard Harris
Neotys is introducing a new Continuous Performance Validation (CPV) platform for load testing and performance monitoring for the application lifecycle. The new solution leverages automated and collaborative tooling to provide the ability to conduct testing as much as needed throughout the software lifecycle including application component testing (pre-GUI API or Web Se...
Metrics Versus KPIs Putting Numbers in Their Places
Thursday, December 31, 2015 by Don Vilsack
As a quality assurance professional who has been involved with process improvement for nearly two decades, I continue to be surprised by the number of developers, testers, and other software team members who do not recognize the difference between metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).This is not surprising, because in the business world - especially in the real...
CollabNet Releases Updates to ALM Platform Including Agile Planning and Tracking
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
CollabNet, a provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, has released the latest version of TeamForge, an ALM platform that facilitates development and delivery efforts across the entire software lifecycle.TeamForge 7.2 is an open ALM platform that integrates with individual teams’ favorite point tools to deliver software faster and be responsive...
