CW Developer Network
The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network.
October 2012
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Inside an SAP cloud application integration
30 Oct 2012 -
Windows 8 developers must not be WIMPs
25 Oct 2012 -
Big data without analysis is, well, just big data
23 Oct 2012
Given the huge amount of changes going on within SAP as a whole, application integration in relation to its total product line has come into increasing focus this year.
So Windows 8 has someone tentatively arrived under shroud of scepticism and uncertainty that can only be likened to the UK's switch to digital TV.
Big data is everywhere. Yes Gartner predicts that big data spending will grow from $27 billion in 2012 to $55 billion in 2016, but what is more interesting is what we are doing to be productive ...
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SAP teaches in-memory, in user's memory
17 Oct 2012 -
The user interface is now the touch user interface
17 Oct 2012 -
SAP eyes wider business window for 'big data'
16 Oct 2012 -
Apple iPad app pushes the location-based cloud
14 Oct 2012 -
It's time to open up your API
12 Oct 2012 -
What is DevOps anyway?
11 Oct 2012
Newly launched this week is the HANA Academy, a free online resource with instructional videos and live and recorded webinars designed to teach "anyone" to learn how to operate the SAP HANA platform.
Obviously most readers will now the importance of mobile technologies with their inherent use of "touch" technologies used to drive our interaction with modern applications.
SAP is logically focused on its customers' IT departments, as this will be the primary target for the implementation of its software. But if systems of record are used right across the business, ...
Location-based service (LBS) technology has been growing in line with the development of both the mobile devices we use to connect and the wider proliferation of cloud computing services which we ...
Everything is moving to the cloud. Applications, data storage blocks, software along with software services of every kind and every infrastructural element of computing that care to stick a label on.
While formal definitions of DevOps are somewhat thin on the ground, we can reasonably define this term to describe the interrelationship of the programmers and IT operations staff such as systems ...