Enterprise application development, DevOps and software agility

For most modern businesses' IT departments, enterprise application development follows an agile process to effectively adapt to -- and take advantage of -- rapidly evolving technology. Read news, tips and opinion to help guide your organization's application development strategy, including advice on implementing the latest DevOps and software agility best practices.

May 03, 2021 03 May'21
Dell strikes $4 billion deal to sell iPaaS specialist Boomi

Dell nails down a $4 billion cash agreement to sell integration-platform-as-a-service vendor Boomi to investment firms just weeks after spinning off VMware.
March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21
OSDU Data Platform opens door to new apps in energy sector

A new OSDU standard aims to bring information from oil, gas, wind, solar and other sources into a single data platform to help energy companies address future demand.
March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21
ServiceNow enters RPA market with Intellibot acquisition

Taking its cue from corporate users focused on both low- code and automation, ServiceNow has acquired Intellibot for its robotic process automation (RPA) products.
March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21
Boomi Flow adds support for multi-cloud, hybrid deployments

Dell's Boomi subsidiary expands the deployment options for its low-code Flow workflow automation tool to public clouds and customers' on-premises data centers.

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robotic process automation (RPA)

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mobile application development

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Collaboration is key to a secure web application architecture

Author Andrew Hoffman explains the importance of a secure web application architecture and how to achieve it through collaboration between software and security engineers. Continue Reading
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Learn how low-code concepts and practices code can help enterprise developers be more efficient, create valuable apps more quickly and contribute to broader business initiatives. Continue Reading
Ultimate guide to digital transformation for enterprise leaders

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CIO role post-pandemic is 'opportunity of a lifetime'

What is the CIO's role in 2021? Genpact's Sanjay Srivastava, a speaker at this year's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, says CIOs are becoming 'co-creators' of new business models. Continue Reading
The importance of culture in digital transformation

Trying to accomplish digital transformation without the right culture could result in failure to launch. Here are five steps you need to take to get off the ground. Continue Reading
7 IT cost optimization strategies for CIOs

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Top 6 reasons why digital transformation failures happen

Digital transformation is essential to business survival, but companies keep failing at it. Find out why and what organizations can do to avoid the missteps that sabotage success. Continue Reading
Add shadow IT applications to the official DevOps toolchain

Sometimes developers and other IT team members install unapproved apps to fill a gap in the DevOps toolchain. These shadow apps are risky -- but give them a chance. Continue Reading
How to prevent lingering software quality issues

Coders can learn a lot from manufacturers, according to Gary Gruver, even though the products are distinctly different. This free chapter excerpt covers how to approach QA issues. Continue Reading