SAP buys Qualtrics for $8B, giving global scale to experience management data

Qualtrics expects to exceed $400 million in revenue for FY18, with a growth rate greater than 40% year-over-year. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 12, 2018

DevOps frees projects from the purgatory of 'potentially shippable,' Gartner analyst says

End users know what they want, but it's usually not what's delivered. "How many software projects look like great flight, wrong airport?"

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 31, 2018

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Shifts in enterprise software use, ongoing generative AI adoption plans and budget pressures ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

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Migration lessons learned: Even Amazon can face mishaps with new tools

The biggest mistake companies make when contemplating a database migration is concluding all databases are generic.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 30, 2018

Do we really need another acronym? The case for 'ERPaaS'

The theory is big hardware and software vendors are able to leverage economies of scale that organizations just can't match. 

By Shawn Stamp • Oct. 29, 2018

'Inherited' code flaws in software supply chains invite security risk

Sometimes a flaw's severity isn't known until the damage has been done.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 24, 2018

How Chick-fil-A is perfecting its recipe for service and support

Technology is as crucial as those two pickles on every chicken sandwich. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 23, 2018

Gartner's 10 technology trends for 2019 and beyond

Intelligence and connectivity are becoming the norm. With that prevalence come threats of future tech capable of disrupting current models.

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 22, 2018

Organizations need to care and tend to SaaS apps 'like a puppy'

When SaaS is not trained appropriately, it can get unruly and expose a company to a range of implications. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 22, 2018

Google+ resurrected from consumer ashes for the enterprise

Google is emerging as a competitor in the enterprise communication space, setting itself up for the G Suite version of Microsoft Teams. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 12, 2018

Microsoft makes 60K patents open source to protect Linux

Open sourcing so many patents will free the company and Linux from entanglement in lawsuits with patent trolls. 

By Alex Hickey • Oct. 11, 2018

Workplace brings safety alert system from social site to the enterprise

Facebook's Safety Check attempts to contact unaccounted-for employees.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 10, 2018

Dreamforce 2018: Salesforce pushes for cross-platform ties, intelligence to the masses

Salesforce has demonstrated recognition of and efforts to solve the problem of tying together the customer experience.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 28, 2018

Microsoft declares Teams fastest growing app in company history

Though professionals in the technical landscape, like programmers, prefer the Slack experience, Microsoft has a hold on general enterprise users. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 28, 2018

Widening IT channel begets vertical integrations, partnerships

Strong partner ecosystems with other service providers are a more critical foundation, and more channel firms are working toward vertical industry specialization.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 25, 2018

Experience matters: Why enterprise software must put the user first

Unleash your team's best work with collaboration insights from Asana, Dropbox and Slack.

Sept. 22, 2018

The corruption of DevOps

A hesitancy to invoke real organizational change to implement DevOps has created an underlying reliance on the vendor landscape.

By Naomi Eide • Sept. 19, 2018

Microsoft launches Azure DevOps, striking on industry's process and buzzword obsession

The move represents Microsoft's adoption of the developer mindset, a key part of its GitHub acquisition.

By Naomi Eide • Sept. 11, 2018

What tech execs need to know about the ERP market

Selecting the right ERP for a business is a task that takes time, resources and a gut check for a company about "what makes them unique." 

By Jen A. Miller • Sept. 10, 2018

2018 enterprise technology IPOs: Fall update

The late spring and summer months brought a new crop of IPOs with six enterprise technology companies concentrated in the fields of cybersecurity and software as a service.

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 7, 2018

Poll measures developers' impact on the GDP at $3 trillion

But the downside is developer inefficiency is estimated at a $300 billion hit to global GDP and $85 billion opportunity cost to companies. 

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 7, 2018

For eBay's 3-year modernization, attention turns to developing, using open source infrastructure

Combing through each layer of its technology stack, eBay replatformed its infrastructure without incurring incremental costs. 

By Alex Hickey • Sept. 6, 2018

Atlassian's $295M OpsGenie acquisition grows incident response capabilities

After shaking up the communication platform market in July, the company is focusing on software tools dedicated to collaboration and management. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 5, 2018

As Einstein expands its reach, Salesforce focuses on 'ethical and humane' technology

The push for accountability comes on the heels of a petition for the company to drop its contract with Customs and Border Protection.

By Alex Hickey • Aug. 31, 2018

At Box, fight for content collaboration market centers on partners and integration

Smaller SaaS vendors have made names for themselves partnering with larger organizations, like Google and Microsoft.

By Naomi Eide • Aug. 30, 2018

DevOps and agile: Why this union is taking so long to consummate

Organizations are having difficulty finding candidates familiar with agile and DevOps who can collaborate across teams.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 30, 2018