Topic: digital transformation
Industry Watch: Accelerating digital transformation
The horrors of the novel coronavirus cannot be understated. As of this writing, there are 31.5 million cases of COVID-19 around the world, and 970,673 have died — closing in on the grim milestone of a million lives lost. One million lives lost. This month, we’ve seen wildfires devastate California and the American Pacific Northwest, … continue reading
Analyst Watch: The birth of the enterprise digital librarian
As digital transformation accelerates, deepens and intensifies within the enterprise, the number of digital assets that an enterprise has to manage will correspondingly increase. For example, enterprises are already in the process of developing more net new applications, modernizing existing applications, creating microservices, APIs, functions as a service, infrastructure as code solutions, CI/CD toolchains and … continue reading
Google announces a cloud app modernization program and new development and delivery updates
As part of it’s app modernization week, Google announced a number of new updates to help organizations get started with their digital transformations and to streamline application development and delivery. The Google Cloud App Modernization Program The Google App Modernization Program (Google CAMP) was formed to offer advice on how organizations can start their journeys … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Tasktop Jira Align Connector, SQL Server Management Studio 18.6, and Adobe, IBM and Red Hat’s digital transformation partnership
The release of Tasktop Hub 20.3 includes the ability to integrate Jira Align as well as new UX features. Jira Align is also supported by Tasktop Viz, where enterprises get insight into the flow of business value, starting from strategic planning in Jira Align and all through the implementation by individual value streams working in … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Bugsnag Stability Center launched, PDFTron acquires ActivePDF, and dotnet-monitor released
Bugsnag has announced its new Stability Center focused on providing a holistic view into stability stats and trends across releases for multiple client and server-side applications. According to the company, the center will help engineering and product leaders can make data-driven decisions about when to prioritize debugging over new development to improve app stability and … continue reading
premium Microservices and APIs: The path to agility
It’s often been said that digital transformation is not a destination, but a journey. In the past, that journey was fraught with complications and the risk of downtime as legacy systems were retired and replaced. Today, however, steering legacy systems into the digital age has been made simpler through the introduction of microservices and APIs. … continue reading
Report reveals new technology priorities to deal with COVID-19 pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact businesses, enterprises are beginning to shift their priorities. A new report revealed 95% of organizations are changing technology priorities, and 87% of technologists are using this as an opportunity to display their value to the business. AppDynamics, a Cisco company, released “The Agents of Transformation Report,” which looks … continue reading
SD Times news digest: OutSystems’ new enterprise dev tools, Solo.io developer portal for Istio service mesh, and Fuze 6
OutSystems announced 70 development accelerators designed to ensure web and mobile applications created on the OutSystems low-code development platform can comply with the highest accessibility standards and regulations. “Building apps with great accessibility is a legal responsibility, but more importantly, it is a moral responsibility for app developers to ensure that everyone can perceive, navigate, … continue reading
SD Times news digest: Java Client roadmap updates, Xs:code and Redis’ partnership, and Venafi acquires Jetstack for digital transformation
The Java Client roadmap extends the availability and support timelines for many Java Client-related technologies. Commercial support and updates for Java SE 8 have shifted from March 2025 to at least December 2030. Also, personal use of Java SE 8 has been extended indefinitely from the previously announced date of December 2020. Additional details on … continue reading
Report: COBOL at the center of modernization strategies
Across the industry, companies are looking to modernize, and according to a new survey from Micro Focus, the programming language COBOL is at the center of this modernization. According to 70% of the COBOL survey’s respondents, modernizing COBOL applications is favored over replacing or retiring them. This is due to the fact that COBOL provides … continue reading
Guest View: Mainframers versus digital transformation engineers
Contrary to popular belief, the world is not full of start-ups. There’s a reason the world’s top X companies lists exist – these well-established powerhouses have been around for decades. The issue is that in this competitive, start-up environment, even well-established companies are now required to be as nimble as start-ups, and, if they don’t, … continue reading
Legacy app modernization is not a slash and burn process
Legacy application modernization may mean different things to different people. But whether that means updating practices surrounding mainframes, adopting Agile and DevOps practices or updating to modern databases, legacy app modernization is necessary to keep pace with modern industry demands. “Legacy modernization at large means that you take advantage of enhanced operational agility and accelerated … continue reading
