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Data Matters
Programming won’t go away but extensibility is a worthwhile substitute for many tasks
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 14 Jun 2023This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, CTO, Unit4 Programming has made more farewells than Frank Sinatra, but the difference being that "Old Blue Eyes" eventually played one final concert, ...
As low-code gets lower (by which we mean higher), we need to track the progress of this potentially game-changing (stay with us, we’ll justify that phrase) technology as it continues to expand and ...
Developers are important. They build us the applications that we use every day and, in many cases, these are apps, functions, services and technology connection points that enable us to live our ...
I always find it interesting when unanticipated themes crop up out of nowhere that are suddenly commonplace between multiple conversations with different vendors, especially vendors that are very ...
Pega used its annual user, customer & partner convention this year to showcase a set of solid extensions, connections and augmentations to its core platform. The working functions encapsulated ...
Brexit gives the UK a unique opportunity to lead on regulatory arbitrage and inter-operability, mixing and matching the best of AI thinking from across geopolitical divides without the need for ...
Data Matters
Why the ‘digital offensive’ starts with automation
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 09 Jun 2023This a guest blogpost by Gert-Jan Wijman, VP of EMEA, Celigo This decade for UK businesses has been epitomised by crises. First the Covid-19 pandemic, then its aftershocks, and now the inflationary ...
Cloud database platform company Couchbase has broadly extended its Database-as-a-Service Couchbase Capella. Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga - the branding gang ...
Data Matters
Developing an effective ransomware strategy: protecting big data
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 02 Jun 2023This is a guest blogpost by Brian Brockway, Chief Technology Officer at Commvault. The ransomware landscape has evolved significantly in recent years, with cybercriminals employing increasingly ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jay Harel, VP of Product at Opaque Systems - Opaque is a confidential computing platform that enables secure data sharing, ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ken Pickering, SVP of engineering at Starburst - a company known for its analytics engine that powers the Data Mesh ...
In this guest post, Doug Ko, director of product marketing at container monitoring software company Sysdig, provides some guidance on what enterprises can do to keep their cloud costs in check ...
In this guest post, Doug Ko, director of product marketing at container monitoring software company Sysdig, provides some guidance on what enterprises can do to keep their cloud costs in check ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Want to become a data-driven organisation? Start thinking differently about change management
Freeform Dynamics 31 May 2023Chatting with a client recently about the importance to a data-driven* organisation of having a good Chief Data Officer, or CDO, we turned to the topic of change management. But halfway through the ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sethu Meenakshisundaram in his capacity as co-founder of Zluri, a SaaS management platform company that works to help ...
CW Developer Network
Pager Duty CPO: Mature (automated) digital Ops saves incidents incidence
29 May 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sean Scott in his capacity as chief product officer (CPO) at PagerDuty - the company is known for its Real-Time Operations ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dale Kim in his capacity as senior director for technical solutions at Hazelcast – the company is known for its Kim writes ...
We now face the most lethal of situations - secure (if properly used) technologies in the hands of insecure people.
Bill Gates defines a platform as something where the economic value to everyone who uses it is greater than its value to the company that created it. It is easy to see how Windows, through the ...
Software systems are surging. The application of generative AI functionalities and capabilities continues apace. The key rationale for the proliferation of this rollout is this technology's ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Shannon in his role as head of hyperautomation at SAS UK & Ireland. This article explores the evolution of ...
People make decisions. One piece of research recently ‘suggested’ that people make as many as 35,000 decisions a day - many of which may be made involuntarily of course - and if that’s not too ...
CW Developer Network
Cohesity: team-up to toughen up, new alliance members & sharper integrations
23 May 2023Data management is the lifeblood of applications, obviously, along with the core software application code substrate from which apps are built and developed in the first place, the need to form ...
There is much talk of cybersecurity skills shortages and there are many initiatives. Most do not relate to the skills you most need to help protect your business, your supply chain and your ...
Harness Inc. has announced the availability of Harness Continuous Error Tracking (CET). This is a new module designed to provide developer-first observability for ‘modern applications’, by which ...
KX is one of those companies. It’s one of those companies with 15 offices across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific with a fairly weighty installed base of users - largely in the financial ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Legacy IT: A technical debt field of dreams
Managing Editor 18 May 2023In Field of Dreams, while walking in his cornfield, Kevin Costner’s character hears a whisper: “If you build it, he will come,” which, without giving the plot away, inspires him to build a baseball ...
SAP used its SAP Sapphire user conference this May to detail a wide-ranging partner proliferation programme that includes a number of key developmental technologies. Arguably foremost among its ...
CW Developer Network
Auto-tech series - Unit4: Data fundamentals first, automation second
14 May 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Claus Jepsen in his role as CTO of Unit4, an enterprise software company that offers a suite of functionalities spanning ...
Data Matters
To deliver true explainability ChatGPT needs graph technology
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 12 May 2023In a guest blogpost, Neo4j’s Alyson Welch explains why Large Language Model AI systems can’t move beyond non-trivial applications until they are properly curated. ChatGPT and other generative AIs ...
Data Matters
The value and limitations of ChatGPT for businesses
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 12 May 2023This is a guest blogpost by Paul Maker, Chief Technology Officer, Aiimi For years, AI capabilities have been used across many sectors, but often the promises and potential of the technology has not ...
Nutanix hosted its .NEXT conference in Chicago, Illinois, this week in what was the first in-person iteration of this normally annual event for five years. The Computer Weekly Developer Network ...
CW Developer Network
Auto-tech series - Persistent Systems: Employee experience differentiators
10 May 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Preetpal Singh in his role as senior vice president for intelligent automation at Persistent Systems. Singh’s full title ...
In this guest post, Victoria Thomas, UK and Ireland principal for IBM Sustainability Software, talks about how data quality can affect an enterprise’s ability to make its ESG goals a reality For ...
CW Developer Network
Out of this world? Nutanix delivers ‘universal’ cloud operating model
09 May 2023Nutanix used its .NEXT conference in Chicago this month to announce Nutanix Central, a cloud-delivered solution that provides a single console for visibility, monitoring and management across ...
At the start of May, Chegg, the US edutech firm, saw its share price crash after CEO Dan Rosensweig said during the company's Q1 2023 earnings call, that the company had been impacted by ChatGPT. ...
Data Matters
Innovation, transformation, and the importance of embracing “ugly ideas”
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 09 May 2023This is a guest blogpost by Madalina Tanasie, Chief Technology Officer, Collibra Given the problems businesses face today, from supply chain issues to fears of an economic downturn, it is more ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Fatima Sarah Khalid, developer evangelist, GitLab. Khalid writes in full as follows … Early in my career, I was a city ...
CW Developer Network
ThoughtSpot ‘study tour’ 2023: Inside intuitive AI for data analytics
05 May 2023Technology vendors hold press conferences. They like them, it’s what they do. But over and above the formulaic press conference process and experience, some technology vendors also stage ...
Developers love functions, businesspeople love insights. In fairness, developers do love insights too, but (on balance) they don’t hanker after them quite as fervently as businesspeople who not ...
Appian staged its eponymously named Appian World 2023 event this month in San Diego. Despite an overcast sky and a less-than-California feel about the city, Appian execs were upbeat and ebullient ...
Eyes on APAC
Tackling the challenges of data sovereignty in a multi-cloud world
TechTarget 01 May 2023This is a guest post by Andy Ng, vice-president and managing director for Asia South and Pacific region at Veritas Technologies The shift to public cloud adoption is alluring, driven by the ...
CW Developer Network
Auto-tech series - Alibaba Cloud: How cloud automation builds better connections
27 Apr 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Raymond Ma, in his position as General Manager of Europe at Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone ...
The smart speaker revolution has meant people often thank their device or say “please”, when asking it to do something. Some also greet their device with a “Good Morning”, and perhaps a “Good ...
When IT Meets Politics
Meeting the skills needs of the largest Fintech/Cyberhub Outside North America?
Winsafe Ltd 26 Apr 2023Financial and Professional Services is the largest employment sector in London but there is no plan to meet their needs. Is this being left to Central London Forward to produce?
CW Developer Network
Auto-tech series - Snorkel AI: Data is the new input for business process automation
26 Apr 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Alex Ratner, CEO at Snorkel AI - a company known for its technology which is designed to help developers build ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Just because it’s innovative, doesn’t make it good!
Freeform Dynamics 25 Apr 2023One of my hobbyhorses at the moment is how words and adjectives that ought to be simply descriptive acquire notions of ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and there’s one example that I think is quite dangerous. ...
CW Developer Network
Auto-tech series - OctoML: Large Language Model (LLM) automation for developers
25 Apr 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Knight in his capacity as co-founder and VP of Machine Learning at OctoML, a company known for its acceleration ...
CW Developer Network
Auto-tech series - Civo: Why 'open' accessibility is critical for Machine Learning success
24 Apr 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Josh Mesout, CIO at Civo - the company is known for its Kubernetes platform, its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies ...
CW Developer Network
Auto-tech series - Amplitude: Automation with low code & no code tools
23 Apr 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chetna Mahajan in her capacity as chief digital & information officer at Amplitude - the company is known for its ...