Development - What's Innovative?

NextStep 2018 was OutSystems’ conference promoting its capabilities in processing Large Application Portfolios and its affection for BizDevOps.

Cloud Foundry could be one of the leading platforms for developing business automation, as more and more people adopt Cloud and OSS (Open Source Software).

Ignitho specialises in building prototypes to test out innovative ideas

Visual LANSA is a high-productivity, low-code development platform, which promotes rapid web and mobile development.

Gluster, Ansible and a cloud-based app...

"Serverless Architectures" are rapidly becoming popular in Cloud computing (and, some would say, a bit of a religious movement).

Decision modelling in the latest release of Sapiens DECISION may help the business to understand its own decision processes.

Cloud-based persona-oriented services remove barriers to achieving the Mutable Enterprise.

A chat about licensing issues with Ian Preskett, a SAM process consultant

There's still a buzz around BMC, although bringing its legacy customers along may not be trivial.

Compuware is aiming to make mainframe development accessible to those of us more used to Docker and Selenium

Lock-in to a Cloud platform is now as threatening as lock-in to, say, 1980s IBM, in the days of Mainframe, SAA and SNA, ever was. There are tools to help you.

CA Technologies is still customer focused and sees open source integrations and AI as strategic. Plus, cultural mores in general have moved forwar

There's a new release of OutSystems, which tidies up its mobile capabilities.

InterSystems is worthy of more attention

Accepted testing practices and techniques aren't adequate for the system complexity we anticipate after the Mutable inflection point.

Development of apps for the Mutable Business is probably going to be declarative, without coding, if businesses are gong to take control.

Verifiable models of business decisions are just as useful as the process models used for model-driven development

Mendix v7 has some useful innovations.

Mendix is a rapid app development PaaS (Platform as a Service) environment for the enterprise.

Uniface is now independent again, with a new “fire in its belly” and a modern IDE in Uniface 10. It can do anything other model-driven development tools can do.

Synergies amongst new CA announcements.

Bit of a buzz at CA World, as there often is, but how disruptive might disruptive technology innovation really be? New technology can't be put back in the box.

Users of developerWorks Recipes can tap into IBM's platform-as-a-service, Bluemix, to share IoT knowledge.

A report from the world of InterSystems

A chat with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, CTO of CloudBees and founder of Jenkins

An important merger for Dynatrace, one of the better APM tools.

Jenkins Operations Centre and Jenkins Enterprise become one manageable continuous delivery platform

We must all move to IPv6 - but when, and why?

A new intiatiave from the London Mayor, supported by IBM

Report from a F2F meeting

Bizagi BPMS offers seamless integration with Microsoft SharePoint

With Bizagi, as one example, you can leverage SAP assets in order to automate business processes, with speed and efficiency - but without programming.

OutSystems adopts new release names and delvers some interesting UI ideas

Addition of user experience feedback to the developer experience.

Initial report from Intel's 2015 software conference - it's still about innovative parallisation.

Return of bare metal?

Report from IBM's Developer Connect 2014 conference in London.

Report from a CloudStack collaboration conference

SPARK 2014 makes use of formal methods and low-defect programming easier.

Report from CA World 2014

The requirements for a mobile development platform - illustrated by OutSystems 9

A new veresion of RAD Studio with better support for multicore and the IoT

Talking with the Uniface team

Developing IT services for the business is increasingly a matter of managing contracts and SLAs (Service Level Agreements), rather than managing technology.

Sitrion has interesting integrations with Microsoft and SAP

p4-search - an OSS utility for Perforce

Hornbill introduces a collaborative SaaS/Cloud platform and app store

Actionable insight and trust working together, give organisations the freedom to "innovate@speed".

If you don't know what you have, where it is and how it is configured, how can you trust any of its outcomes?

ISTEP - Intel Software Conf 2014

A European PaaS offering

Atego Vantage is a tool which integrates product line engineering with general systems development

New design tool for developers

Gird-Tools has announced the release of Agile Designer

Website as a Service offers a better way of building websites

OutSystems Platform has grown out of experience with providing on-premises and private cloud solutions and targets professional developers.

A new Perforce tool for extracting project metrics from software development repositories.

Using cloud doesn't necessarily (and shouldn't) mean giving up control of your data and processing.

Microsoft developers apparently want to go cross-platform in mobile and Embarcadero RAD Studio XE5 might help.

A clear theme at the Salesforce.com Customer Company Tour I went to recently was the power of a collaborating team.

An interesting innovation at the 2013 Intel Software Conference was its HTML5 development environment - a packaged set of programming tools for building cross-platform apps.

This release streamlines the product (Uniface Flow is now deprecated, for example) and improves its support for Windows.

Cloud is coming but it can make people nervous. A development and testing appliance may be a good way to get it started.

Usage-based billing services, and provision usage analytics input as a service, will be an important feature of the next-generation software-driven and service-oriented businesses.

Progress has announced the release of OpenEdge Release 11 platform

Gerry Brown explores how open source software disrupts the conventional wisdom

Why a new kind of security testing in the cloud just might change everything we know about application security